Filter:
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1871
Australia, 1871-Following her mother’s sudden death, Joanna Drury sets sail from India and arrives in Melbourne to claim the property left to her by her mother-and to trace the mysteries of her family’s past. From her first steps on...
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya’s parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive...
The Guy, The Girl, The Artist and His Ex
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1986
A rock chick. An artist with attitude. A girl with a past. A party animal. Four lives collide when one of the world’s most famous paintings is stolen. It’s a mystery that has the nation talking, but while Picasso’s...
- Location(s): Victoria, Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car. This is the moment she knew must come, when they will walk out on her husband Leon and a...
- Location(s): Cohuna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s onward
It is 1953 and Harry lives a solitary life as a dairy farmer in the small town of Cohuna, with his whippet Sip and the company of Betty, his neighbour. Harry helps young Michael with his sexual awakening and...
- 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): Victoria, Shepparton, Wagga Wagga, Yackandandah
- Genre(s): Comedy, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A Very Important Teapot is a comedy thriller revolving around the hunt for a lost cache of Nazi diamonds in Australia. Dawson’s life is going nowhere. Out of work and nearly out of money, he is forlornly pursuing the...
- 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...
Refine Location
Locations in Victoria
Please wait...
