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Eyrie

Eyrie
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Eyrie is Tim Winton’s heart-stopping novel written with breath-taking tenderness. Funny, confronting, exhilarating and haunting, it asks how, in an impossibly compromised world, we can ever hope to do the right thing. Tom Keely has lost his bearings. His...

Fake I.D.

Fake I.D.
  • Author(s): Hazel Edwards
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 2000

On the day of her Gran’s funeral, 15 year old Zoe found the package. The label said ‘Not to be opened until after my death’. So Zoe opened it. Some kids use fake I.D. But to find your Gran...

Family Secrets

Family Secrets
  • Author(s): Liz Byrski
  • Location(s): Hobart
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

When patriarch Gerald Hawkins passes away in his Tasmanian home, after ten years of serious illness, his family experience a wave of grief and, admittedly, a surge of relief. Gerald’s dominating personality has loomed large over his wife, Connie,...

Feeling sorry for Celia

Feeling sorry for Celia
  • Author(s): Jaclyn Moriarity
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 2000s

Final Innings

Final Innings
  • Author(s): Sunil Gupta
  • Location(s): India, Australia, England, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Final Innings is the story of five tumultuous years in the life of a successful and internationally admired Indian cricketer, Ramdas Upreti. It explores the depths of human desire and disillusionment, hope and regret, love and longing, and deep...

Fishing For Stars

Fishing For Stars
  • Author(s): Bryce Courtenay
  • Location(s): Sydney, Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Nicholas Duncan is a semi-retired shipping magnate who resides in idyllic Beautiful Bay in Indonesia, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands. He is grieving the loss of his beautiful Eurasian wife, Anna, and is...

Flank Street

Flank Street
  • Author(s): A J Sendall
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Crime, Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

A woman with a lust for money and danger… A man with a hunger for risk and adrenaline… Can they con the Sydney underworld and get away with murder? Or will they both end up dumped in a dark...

Forgotten Footprints

Forgotten Footprints
  • Author(s): Rosemary Hayes
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 18th century

A fast paced story of resilience against impossible odds, of courage and of love, set in 1711 on a dangerous voyage to a new life in Java. It is August 1711 and Annie Jansz is sailing from Zeeland with...

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...

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