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Everybody Jam

Everybody Jam
  • Author(s): Ali Lewis
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Danny Dawson lives in the middle of the Australian outback. His older brother Jonny was killed in an accident last year but no-one ever talks about it. And now it’s time for the annual muster. The biggest event of...

Baggage

Baggage
  • Author(s): Emily Barr
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

At eighteen, your closest friend commits suicide. At twenty-nine, you’re backpacking in the Australian outback when you see her. She has a husband. She has a ten-year-old son. She has a baby on the way. She claims to be...

Nights in the Asylum

Nights in the Asylum
  • Author(s): Carol Lefevre
  • Location(s): Australia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Written in spare yet sensuous prose, Nights in the Asylum is the story of three people seeking shelter: it is also a story of home, of belonging, of leaving one home and trying to make another, where-ever and how-ever...

The Broken Shore

The Broken Shore
  • Author(s): Peter Temple
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Aussie Outback realism, this is a Sunday Times Bestseller. Joe Cashin is sent to the outback to recuperate from a botched stake out. Based in Port Munro a wealthy citizen is beaten to death in his home. Three teenage...

A Far-flung Life

A Far-flung Life
  • Author(s): M L Stedman
  • Location(s): The Outback, Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Western Australia, 1958. A truck rumbles along a lonely outback road. A moment’s inattention, and in a few muddled seconds the lives of the MacBride family are shattered. Instead of leaving them to heal, fate comes back for them...

Beneath Outback Skies

Beneath Outback Skies
  • Author(s): Alissa Callen
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Paige Quinn will let nothing and no one distract her from caring for her wheelchair-bound father, Connor, and fighting for her remote, drought-stricken property, Banora Downs. Least of all a surprise farm-stay guest named Tait Cavanaugh, whose smooth words...

Blood Junction

Blood Junction
  • Author(s): C J Carver
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From CWA Debut Dagger winner…. Journalist India Kane’s trip to the Australian outback takes a horrifying turn when she arrives in the town of Cooinda to find that her best friend Lauren is missing. Seemingly no one knows what has...

Cover The Bones

Cover The Bones
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A body has washed up in an irrigation canal, the artery running through Yuwonderie, a man-made paradise on the border of the Outback. Stabbed through the heart, electrocuted and dumped under cover of night, there is no doubt that...

Dead Man’s Creek

Dead Man’s Creek
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Crime, Noir, Psychological Thriller, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Newly-minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her hometown, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder – a ‘file and forget’. But this is no ordinary cold case, her arrival provoking an unwelcome and threatening response from the small-town...

Deadman’s Creek

Deadman’s Creek
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Noir, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Newly-minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her hometown, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder – a ‘file and forget’. But this is no ordinary cold case, her arrival provoking an unwelcome and threatening response from the small-town...

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