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An Isolated Incident

An Isolated Incident
  • Author(s): Emily Maguire
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella’s beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at...

An Open Swimmer

An Open Swimmer
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Winner of the Australian/Vogel Award for Best First Novel, Tim Winton’s An Open Swimmer is a meditation on past and present, a story of madness and murder, and of the punishing yet redemptive qualities of both fire and water....

And Fire Came Down

And Fire Came Down
  • Author(s): Emma Viskic
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A SILENT SCREAM The woman can only sign two words: help… family. And then she is gone – a body lying dead in the street. A TOWN READY TO BURN Caleb’s search for her killer takes him back to...

Apple Island Wife – Slow Living in Tasmania

Apple Island Wife – Slow Living in Tasmania
  • Author(s): Fiona Stocker
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Present day

What happens when you move to five acres in Tasmania on a hunch, with an alpaca-whispering husband and a feral cockerel for company? Can you eat the cockerel for dinner? Or has it got rigour mortis? Apple Island Wife...

Apples Never Fall

Apples Never Fall
  • Author(s): Liane Moriarty
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Delaney family love one another dearly – it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . . Joy Delaney and husband Stan have done well. Four wonderful grown-up children. A family business to envy. The...

April Fool’s Day

April Fool’s Day
  • Author(s): Bryce Courtenay
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): late 20th century

‘It is a deeply personal story. I think I must have wept on every page. Each day as I sat down to write I would have to open the wound again, and frankly, it hurt like hell … Damon...

Ask Adam

Ask Adam
  • Author(s): Jess Dee
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

Can one wild night of passion turn into the romance of a lifetime? Lexi Tanner’s got a major problem: AJ Riley, the man she’s about to approach for a hefty donation, turns out to be the stranger she shared...

Asylum Murders

Asylum Murders
  • Author(s): Michael G Colburn
  • 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...

Bad Boys Down Under

Bad Boys Down Under
  • Author(s): Nancy Warren
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Sizzling in Sydney – Sexy, macho Cameron Crane knows he needs San Francisco marketing guru Jennifer Talbot to take his Australian surf and boogie board business into the lucrative American market. No worries, mate. He’ll just seduce the little...

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...

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