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The Lightkeeper’s Wife

The Lightkeeper’s Wife
  • Author(s): Karen Viggers
  • Location(s): Bruny Island, Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mary lives in Hobart, and is triggered into going to Bruny Island, where she once lived with her husband, the lighthouse keeper there. Her decision, in her dying days, prompts division within her own family, yet her trip has...

The Mary Smokes Boys

The Mary Smokes Boys
  • Author(s): Patrick Holland
  • Location(s): Brisbane, Queensland
  • Genre(s): Fiction

With themes of love, abandonment one’s responsibility in life towards others, this is set in the small town of ‘Mary Smokes’.

The Opal Desert

The Opal Desert
  • Author(s): Di Morrissey
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Opal Desert is the story of three women from different generations with unresolved issues in their lives who meet in the fictitious NSW town of Opal Lake. Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband...

Thin Blood

Thin Blood
  • Author(s): Vicki Tyley
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Craig Edmonds, a successful stockbroker, reports the disappearance of his wife, Kirsty. What starts as a typical missing person’s case soon evolves into a full-blown homicide investigation when forensics uncover blood traces and dark-blonde hairs in the boot of...

Three Dollars

Three Dollars
  • Author(s): Elliot Perlman
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s/90s

Eddie is an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of thirty-eight, with a wife, a child, and three dollars. How did he get that way? He is a university graduate. He married an attractive intelligent woman,...

Tracks

Tracks
  • Author(s): Robyn Davidson
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1990s

‘I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there’s no going back.’ So begins Robyn Davidson’s perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea...

Winter at the Light

Winter at the Light
  • Author(s): Stephen B King
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

Forbes Lighthouse is a dangerous place. Twenty-year-old Molly McLaren agrees to tend the light when her father breaks his leg, so she leaves behind the city and her nursing career. Molly dreads the thought of three months as the...

Lost and Found

Lost and Found
  • Author(s): Brooke Davis
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Offbeat and funny’ The Times Millie Bird is a seven-year-old girl who always wears red wellington boots to match her red, curly hair. But one day, Millie’s mum leaves her alone beneath the Ginormous Women’s underwear rack in a department store,...

48 Shades of Brown

48 Shades of Brown
  • Author(s): Nick Earls
  • Location(s): Brisbane
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Dan’s sixteen, about to start his final year at school, and his parents have gone overseas for a year. Jacq’s twenty-two, drops by uni for the occasional class, and plays in a rock band that might be called Crimplene....

Almost Mine

Almost Mine
  • Author(s): Lea Darragh
  • Location(s): Blue Mountains
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

An emotional novel about not seeing what’s right in front of you — and not knowing what you’ve got until it’s gone. Cate has always taken Nick for granted. Through a wild youth of mistakes, bad choices, and self-destructive...

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