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An Open Swimmer

An Open Swimmer
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/80s

A fishing trip marks the end of Jerra and Sean’s friendship, although once, when they were younger and more innocent, it would have seemed unbelievable that the bond between them – first forged by their fathers, and later sealed...

Barracuda

Barracuda
  • Author(s): Christos Tsiolkas
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The boy who wanted to be the best…before he realised what that meant. Barracuda is the electrifying coming-of-age novel from the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Slap Daniel Kelly, a talented young swimmer, has one chance to escape...

Echoes of the Heart

Echoes of the Heart
  • Author(s): Alyssa J Montgomery
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance

She betrayed him and left him to be with another. Now that she’s alone again, nothing is going to stop him from coming for her. Australian media tycoon Jake Formosa does not believe in forgiving…or forgetting. So when he...

Promised Lands

Promised Lands
  • Author(s): Jane Rogers
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century and Modern

Modern day Steven is writing the story of William Dawes, who is one of the first Englishmen to set foot on Australia. His mission is to set up an astrological observatory to study the skies in the southern hemisphere....

Snake Bite

Snake Bite
  • Author(s): Christie Thompson
  • Location(s): Canberra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

“Jez is seventeen and lives with her alcoholic single mum in in a government rental in Canberra’s outer-suburbs, with little money or future prospects. As well as suffering from terminal boredom, Jez has got epic First World Problems: where...

The Beekeeper’s Secret

The Beekeeper’s Secret
  • Author(s): Josephine Moon
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Maria knew about guilt. It was a stubborn, pervasive and toxic emotion, and incredibly difficult to shake. Especially if really, deep down, you didn’t think you deserved to let it go.’ Maria Lindsey is content. She spends her solitary...

The Dirty Beat

The Dirty Beat
  • Author(s): Venero Armanno
  • Location(s): Brisbane
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Rock and jazz drummer max is dead. Now, in his coffin as his friends prepare to bury him, Max is surrounded by the ghosts of his life and the dreams that never faded. All the old music is back...

The January Wish

The January Wish
  • Author(s): Juliet Madison
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Romance

From Escape’s queen of ro-magic comedy comes a sweet, emotional contemporary romance about the pleasures of making a wish and seeing it come true. When Dr Sylvia Greene makes an impromptu wish at the Tarrin’s Bay Wishing Festival, it’s...

The Light between Oceans

The Light between Oceans
  • Author(s): M L Stedman
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Post WW1 - mid 20th Century

The story takes place in Southern Australia, just after the First World War. Tom Sherbourne is a lighthouse keeper on a remote island way off the mainland. One shore leave he marries a local girl, Izzie, and she comes...

The Summer Party

The Summer Party
  • Author(s): Rebecca Heath
  • Location(s): Yorke Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000 / 2019

An atmospheric psychological thriller about a glamorous family living on the coast of southern Australia. 2023’s most addictive beach read. A perfect family. A devastating secret. Summer, 2000. In the tranquil town of Queen’s Point in southern Australia, the...

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