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- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Future
A beautifully written story of the near future and its murky underworld … Salisbury Forth is a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of fuel rationing, rolling power outages and curfews. It’s a stressful...
- 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,...
- Location(s): The Dandenongs, Devon, Melbourne
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When pianist Ginny Smith moves back to her mother’s house in Sassafras after her breakup with the degenerate Garth, synaesthetic and eccentric artist Harriet Brassington-Smythe contrives a creative collaboration to lift her daughter’s spirits: an exhibition of paintings and...
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Victorian
In the gaslit streets of 1890s Melbourne, Lady Edith “Edie” Black has reinvented herself. Once a notorious London thief, she now poses as a widowed aristocrat while secretly establishing herself as a private investigator. When Parliament’s ceremonial mace disappears...
- Location(s): London, Kent, Melbourne
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Dual timeline of Second World War and 2016
An engrossing wartime mystery of past deceptions, family secrets and long-lasting love. Shifting between a Second World War ravaged London and the present day, Eleanor’s Secret is a surprising mystery and compelling love story. London, 1942: When art school...
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
- Era(s): 2000
On the day of her Gran’s funeral, 15 year old Zoe found the package. The label said ‘Not to be opened until after my death’. So Zoe opened it. Some kids use fake I.D. But to find your Gran...
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Current day
Melbourne-based, 8 year old Melek always find answers,some are under her super hijab. For others she needs the help of newcomer Tien who draws fantastic worlds as an escape, or the dress-ups- guru Lily, and sometimes even soccer-mad Zac...
Impressions of Sydney and Melbourne
- Location(s): Sydney, Melbourne
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Present
Want to know what two of Australia’s most exciting cities are like even before you set foot in the Land Down Under? “Impressions of Sydney and Melbourne” virtually takes you there with all the marvelous stories found in “Impressions...
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Troubled and brilliant, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock finds herself lost and alone after a recent move to Melbourne, broken-hearted by the decisions she’s had to make. Her new workplace is a minefield and the partner she has been assigned...
Not an Ordinary Life, from class enemy to the Hall of Fame and a lifetime in between
- Location(s): Szeged, Budapest, Melbourne
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940-2015
A compelling and adventurous story that unfolds in Hungary, a country caught up in the frightening political and social issues of the 40’s and 50’s. Les’ early family life was one of privilege and success, but it quickly changed...
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