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HIDE

HIDE
  • Author(s): S J Morgan
  • Location(s): Cardiff, Swansea, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 80s

Like a dark unsettling road movie, Hide takes us on a chilling ride from 80s urban Britain to the menace of the Australian outback. It’s 1983 in Thatcher’s Britain. Alec Johnston has left his comfortable family home in Cardiff...

High Rise

High Rise
  • Author(s): Vanessa Lee
  • Location(s): Australia, Cronulla
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi, Thriller
  • Era(s): Future

Fictional Bombora is based on Cronulla. In an Australian beachside suburb, climate change can no longer be ignored… Constant storms have damaged Bombora’s coastline. When rising tides force ‘Vaga’, the beloved beachfront restaurant, to finally close, it is seen...

Hijabi Girl

Hijabi Girl
  • Author(s): Ozge Alkan, Hazel Edwards
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Current day

Melbourne-based, 8 year old Melek always find answers,some are under her super hijab. For others she needs the help of newcomer Tien who draws fantastic worlds as an escape, or the dress-ups- guru Lily, and sometimes even soccer-mad Zac...

Homecoming

Homecoming
  • Author(s): Kate Morton
  • Location(s): Adelaide, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958 and contemporary

Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and...

House at Number 10

House at Number 10
  • Author(s): Dorothy Johnston
  • Location(s): Canberra
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

I Am the Messenger

I Am the Messenger
  • Author(s): Markus Zusak
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He’s pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful...

I Can Jump Puddles

I Can Jump Puddles
  • Author(s): Alan Marshall
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall’s story of his childhood – a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders,...

Impressions of Sydney

Impressions of Sydney
  • Author(s): K MacKenzie Freeman and Doug Freeman
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present

Before you book your ticket to the largest city in Australia, find out what Sydney’s really like with “Impressions of Sydney.” It’s a visual storytelling journey to one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Whether you plan to visit...

Impressions of Sydney and Melbourne

Impressions of Sydney and Melbourne
  • Author(s): K MacKenzie Freeman and Doug Freeman
  • Location(s): Sydney, Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present

Want to know what two of Australia’s most exciting cities are like even before you set foot in the Land Down Under? “Impressions of Sydney and Melbourne” virtually takes you there with all the marvelous stories found in “Impressions...

In the Winter Dark

In the Winter Dark
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Tim Winton delivers a truly spine-tingling thriller with In the Winter Dark. When a man dreams things from the past, you’d think he’d be able to rearrange them in new sequences to please himself. But no. In my dreams,...

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