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A Greater World

A Greater World
  • Author(s): Clare Flynn
  • Location(s): Blue Mountains
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920

Elizabeth, born into a prosperous family, and Michael, a miner, come from different worlds. They would never have met but the SS Historic, bound for Sydney, is a ship with only one class. Falling in love should have been...

A Handyman’s Best Tool

A Handyman’s Best Tool
  • Author(s): Alexis Fleming
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

What’s a girl to do when a sexy builder offers to be her tutor.in the bedroom? Three times dumped for not being adventurous in bed, Beth-Ann Harris is ripe for a steamy affair. Particularly when the man in question...

A Matter of Love and Death

A Matter of Love and Death
  • Author(s): Caron Albright
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1931, Jazz Age, Great Depression

Adelaide, 1931. Telephone switchboard operator Frances’ life is difficult as sole provider for her mother and adopted uncle. But it’s thrown into turmoil when she overhears a suspicious conversation on the phone, planning a murder. If a life is...

A Model Wife

A Model Wife
  • Author(s): Maggie Christensen
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Former top model Celia Ramsay is determined to extricate herself from her bullying husband but is trapped in a media circus by a promise she made him. What she hasn’t bargained for is the spate of sexual harassment allegations...

A Perfect Square

A Perfect Square
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • 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...

A Room Made of Leaves

A Room Made of Leaves
  • Author(s): Kate Grenville
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 18th Century

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION It is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her...

A Vampire’s Unlikely Alliance

A Vampire’s Unlikely Alliance
  • Author(s): Tena Stetler
  • Location(s): Australia, Ireland, Maine, Montana
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): modern time

Stefan is a Native American vampire, former assassin for the Vampire Council. In a twist of fate, he now DJ’s the midnight shift for a small radio station in Whitefish, Montana, on the edge of Glacier National Park where...

A Very Important Teapot

A Very Important Teapot
  • Author(s): Steve Sheppard
  • 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...

Amnesty

Amnesty
  • Author(s): Aravind Adiga
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Danny–formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam–is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia who fled from Sri Lanka and was denied refugee status. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he’s been trying to create a new,...

An Academic Affair

An Academic Affair
  • Author(s): Jodi McAlister
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2020s

Sadie Shaw and Jonah Fisher have been academic rivals since they first crossed paths as undergraduates in the literature department thirteen years ago. Now that a highly coveted teaching opportunity has come up, their rivalry hits epic proportions. Jonah...

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