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Four Fires

Four Fires
  • Author(s): Bryce Courtenay
  • Location(s): Australia, Borneo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Four fires: passion, religion, warfare and fire itself. Along with love – perhaps the brightest flame of all – these four fires drive the human spirit. In a small town much like any other around Australia live the Maloneys....

Fracture

Fracture
  • Author(s): Heleyne Hammersley
  • Location(s): Australia, Great Ocean Road, South Australia, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After leaving university and a violent relationship behind, Rosie flies to Australia to spend some time with her uncle, Charlie, and his wife, Rita. Trying to regain some of her lost confidence she hikes along the coast for a...

Full House

Full House
  • Author(s): Jess Dee
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

Set in Sydney there is a LOT of sex in this book, not for the faint hearted.

Girl Racers

Girl Racers
  • Author(s): Janet Gover
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Winning the race is one thing, but can Alex be a winner in love? Tomboy lawyer Alex Reilly loves nothing better than coming first – except her sexy red Lotus sports car. Preparing for the gruelling Snowy Mountains Car...

Golden Gate (City Spies)

Golden Gate (City Spies)
  • Author(s): James Ponti
  • Location(s): San Francisco, Bondi Beach, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

In this second installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies returns for another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for...

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
  • Author(s): Simon Rowe
  • Location(s): Japan, Australia, Bali, China, Fiji, Mexico, Spain, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Current

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is a collection of short fiction fifteen stories high, nine countries wide, and peopled with wily, quick-witted, dim-witted, hapless, helpless, strong and gentle characters. These are tales about people with...

Gould’s Book of Fish

Gould’s Book of Fish
  • Author(s): Richard Flanagan
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1828

Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman’s Land who...

Gravity Is the Thing

Gravity Is the Thing
  • Author(s): Jaclyn Moriarity
  • Location(s): Sydney, Montreal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson’s brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail from a mysterious guidebook, whose anonymous authors promised...

Harbour Glimpses

Harbour Glimpses
  • Author(s): Kevin Scully
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

1950s Australia and the conservative starch is stiffening the fabric of society. Michael Keogh, son of a federal cabinet minister, feels out of place and time. His father wants to be seen in a good light, and Michael is...

Heat and Light

Heat and Light
  • Author(s): Ellen van Neerven
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): 18th century up through the future

In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven takes her readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical, and still achingly real. Over three parts, she takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique, contemporary twist. In “Heat,”...

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