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Jacaranda Wife

Jacaranda Wife
  • Author(s): Kendra Smith
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When a double dip recession hits along with a tax bill, most people tighten their belts, cancel the summer holiday and look for the two-for-one offers. But not Katie Parkes. The home-loving mother of two from London finds herself...

Master’s Mates

Master’s Mates
  • Author(s): Peter Corris
  • Location(s): New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie), Sydney
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Peter Corris’ world weary but always charismatic hero Cliff Hardy has long been established as Australia’s favourite investigator. Often bloodied but never bowed in this latest gripping novel, Hardy is in pursuit of missing millions from Sydney to the...

Oz

Oz
  • Author(s): Bobbie Darbyshire
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/modern

Mark’s life is a mess. He’s been cheating on his wife, fears his marriage is over, but can’t bear to leave his boisterous 7-year-old daughter, Matilda. Just when he thinks things can’t get worse, his mother is killed in...

Puberty Blues

Puberty Blues
  • Author(s): Cathy Lette, Gabrielle Carey
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1970s

Kathy Lette’s first novel, written with her surfie chick friend Gabrielle Carey, when they were eighteen. Written twenty years ago, PUBERTY BLUES is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took Australia by storm and spawned...

Roses for Sophie

Roses for Sophie
  • Author(s): Alyssa J Montgomery
  • Location(s): Hunter Valley, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance

From the polished, pacy, passionate pen of Alyssa J Montgomery come a delicious billionaire, a mining heiress, a marriage of convenience and a very inconvenient attraction. To convince the court that his playboy days are over and to keep...

Shell

Shell
  • Author(s): Kristina Olsson
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Sydney, 1960s: newspaper reporter Pearl Keogh has been relegated to the women’s pages as punishment for her involvement in the anti-war movement, and is desperate to find her two young brothers before they are conscripted. Newly arrived from Sweden,...

Sydney

Sydney
  • Author(s): Jan Morris
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

An original penal colonly, Morris builds up the captivating history of this city – brash, chic, wordly, a contrast of cultures..

The Bat (Harry Hole 1)

The Bat (Harry Hole 1)
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Australia, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Harry Hole is in Sydney to investigate the murder of Inger Holter, a Norwegian woman who happens to be working in Australia. Inger was young, blonde and her body was found dumped in Gap Park. She was raped and...

The Book Thief

The Book Thief
  • Author(s): Markus Zusak
  • Location(s): Munich, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Nine-year-old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street in Molching, a fictional village just outside non-ficitonal Munich, during the dark days of the Third Reich. Her Communist parents have been transported to a concentration camp, and during...

The Golden Day

The Golden Day
  • Author(s): Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1960s

The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes...

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