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The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle

The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle
  • Author(s): Sophie Green
  • Location(s): The Gold Coast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In a seaside suburb on Australia’s golden coast, four women head to the water to swim every day . . . Housewife Theresa wants to get fit; she also wants a few precious minutes to herself. So at sunrise...

The Stoning

The Stoning
  • Author(s): Peter Papathanasiou
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A small town in outback Australia wakes to an appalling crime. A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to death. Suspicion instantly falls on the refugees at the new detention centre on Cobb’s northern outskirts....

The Swooping Magpie

The Swooping Magpie
  • Author(s): Liza Perrat
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

The thunderclap of sexual revolution collides with the black cloud of illegitimacy. Sixteen-year-old Lindsay Townsend is pretty and popular at school. At home, it’s a different story. Dad belts her and Mum’s either busy or battling a migraine. So...

Thirty Days in Sydney

Thirty Days in Sydney
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Subtitled “a wildly distorted account” it is pretty much that: an oblique, poignant, entertaining and rather candid look at the city. Using his prize-winning novelist’s eye for telling detail, and the objectivity of the relative outsider (Carey has spent...

Those Hamilton Sisters

Those Hamilton Sisters
  • Author(s): Averil Kenny
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

A warm, captivating and irresistible story of love, family, secrets and finding your place in the world. For readers of Lucinda Riley and Kate Morton. The Sunday train which snaked into Noah Vale that verdant, midwinter afternoon brought with...

Under The Golden Sun

Under The Golden Sun
  • Author(s): Jenny Ashcroft
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

Wanted: companion to escort a young, orphaned child home to Australia. All expenses as well as passage covered. Interested parties to apply without delay to 32 Williams Street, Belgravia. London, 1941. There are so many reasons Rose Hamilton she...

Wed, Then Dead on The Ghan (Celebrant Sleuth series)

Wed, Then Dead on The Ghan (Celebrant Sleuth series)
  • Author(s): Hazel Edwards
  • Location(s): The Outback, Australia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current day

Sleuth Quinn is on ‘The Ghan’ booked to celebrate a ‘real”wedding at the sunrise breakfast stop out in the Australian desert at Marla. But things go wrong. The train manager has devised an Agatha Christie role-playing mystery to attract...

Force of Nature

Force of Nature
  • Author(s): Jane Harper
  • Location(s): Victoria
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

FIVE WENT OUT. FOUR CAME BACK… Is Alice here? Did she make it? Is she safe? In the chaos, in the night, it was impossible to say which of the four had asked after Alice’s welfare. Later, when everything...

Gifts Of The Peramangk

Gifts Of The Peramangk
  • Author(s): Dean Mayes
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s - Present Day

In 1950s Australia, during the height of the divisive White Australia Policy, Virginia, a young Aboriginal girl is taken from her home and put to work on an isolated and harsh outback station. Her only solace: the violin, taught...

Heading East: 1 year: 26 countries: 1001 worries

Heading East: 1 year: 26 countries: 1001 worries
  • Author(s): Dawn East
  • Location(s): Asia, Australia, Eastern Europe
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The very thought of home ownership and settling down was enough to send Dawn East running for the hills – otherwise known as the Trans-Mongolian Train, where her adventures across Asia, Australia and Eastern Europe would begin. But how...

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