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Iron Junction

Iron Junction
  • Author(s): Charlotte Nash
  • Location(s): Pilbara
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Desperate to get away from her family’s expectations of success in love and in work, Dr Beth Harding leaves Sydney behind and takes a locum job at Iron Junction – a mining town in the distant Pilbara. With the...

No Country For Girls

No Country For Girls
  • Author(s): Emma Styles
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

GOLD. THEFT. MURDER. A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR. ‘An unrelenting page-turner’ CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END ‘Thrilling . . . It left me breathless’ ALEX MARWOOD, author of THE WICKED GIRLS ‘Relevant, powerful and...

Red Dirt

Red Dirt
  • Author(s): E M Reapy
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three young Irish people have come to Australia, running from the economic ruins of their home country and their own unhappy lives. In this promised land, stunned by the heat and the vast arid space of the interior, they...

Seven Little Australians

Seven Little Australians
  • Author(s): Ethel Turner
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800s

Captain Wookcott, his young wife Ester, their baby, and the 6 step children. The life of a family in the 1800s.

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories
  • Author(s): Catherine McNamara
  • Location(s): Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, London, Mali, Paris, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Japanese soprano sets sail for arid, haunted Corsica where she seeks her lost voice. A nude woman at the window of a Hong Kong hotel watches her lover dine in an adjacent building, but is her desire faltering?...

The Dry

The Dry
  • Author(s): Jane Harper
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set 500 miles from Melbourne Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn’t rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family...

The Fatal Shore

The Fatal Shore
  • Author(s): Robert Hughes
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

An incredible look at the history of this erstwhile penal colonly, well written and rivetting

The House Fell on Her Head

The House Fell on Her Head
  • Author(s): Kate Mitchell
  • Location(s): Australia, Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to WW21

When human remains are discovered in a buried Anderson shelter, Alice finds herself wrapped up in a murder mystery that brings back forgotten memories. In Australia, Frank hears of the discovery. He believes he knows whose body this is,...

The Low Road

The Low Road
  • Author(s): Katharine Quarmby
  • Location(s): London, New South Wales, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800-1830

Norfolk, 1813. In the quiet Waveney Valley, the body of a woman – Mary Tyrell – is staked through the heart after her death by suicide. She had been under arrest for the suspected murder of her newborn child....

The Night Fisher Elegies

The Night Fisher Elegies
  • Author(s): Dean Mayes
  • Location(s): Australia, Oceania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2013 - 2022

Taking the reader on a journey through love, faith, death, grief, family and dreams, “The Night Fisher Elegies” weaves together powerful explorations of humanism, moments of reflection that are tinged with melancholy, and short verses that inhabit the sometimes...

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