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The Painting

The Painting
  • Author(s): Alison Booth
  • Location(s): Sydney, Budapest
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1989 /1990

A young Hungarian woman confronts her family’s past in an engrossing quest for a stolen painting. When Anika Molnar flees her home country of Hungary not long before the break-up of the Soviet Union, she carries only a small...

The Red Door

The Red Door
  • Author(s): Rosa Fedele
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1983

It is 1983 and the new owner of the beautiful old Sydney mansion ‘Rosalind’ begins to believe she is being watched by the mysterious resident in Number Three, a reclusive man who happens to share his name with two...

Consider Yourself Kissed

Consider Yourself Kissed
  • Author(s): Jessica Stanley
  • Location(s): Darwin, Hackney, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary (2017-23)

What’s the grown-up meaning of ‘happily ever after’? When she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty, and (he insists) a quarter of an inch taller than the average British...

Epiphany – THE SILVERING

Epiphany – THE SILVERING
  • Author(s): Sonya Deanna Terry
  • Location(s): Christchurch, Cornwall, Oslo, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern, Pre-History, 18th century

A RETURN TO THE CURRENCY OF KINDNESS The story-within-a-story continues and a sequence of stunning revelations unfolds in Epiphany’s gripping conclusion. The 2008 Global Financial Crisis is looming, a time of losses for some in Rosetta’s circle, and the...

Follow the Money

Follow the Money
  • Author(s): Peter Corris
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When beautiful young women kiss you on the cheek you know you’re over the hill, but I didn’t really feel like that. As Wesley said, I still had the moves.’ Cliff Hardy may still have the moves but he’s...

Here One Moment

Here One Moment
  • Author(s): Liane Moriarty
  • Location(s): Australia, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

We’re all so busy, caught up in life’s moments, big and small . . . The flight attendant working a shift on her birthday. The mother struggling alone with two young children. The newlyweds setting off on their tropical...

Lilian’s Story

Lilian’s Story
  • Author(s): Kate Grenville
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

Lilian Una Stringer is the narrator, privileged parents in early twentieth century Australia. she fails to live up to her father’s expectations, eventually garnering his abuse and anger. Her mother meanwhile wiles away her hours with a stopwatch, timing...

Looking for Alibrandi

Looking for Alibrandi
  • Author(s): Melina Marchetta
  • Location(s): Australia, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1990s

For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it’s just been her, her mther, and her grandmother. Now it’s her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn’t be any stricter-but that doesn’t seem to stop...

Lucy in the Sky

Lucy in the Sky
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): London, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Lucy is heading back to Australia for her best friend’s wedding when she gets a text from her boyfriend’s phone from someone saying they have just slept with him. She is just about to take off, trapped for many...

The Beach Volcano

The Beach Volcano
  • Author(s): Nigel Featherstone
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After years of estrangement, Canning Albury, a revered and irreverent singer-songwriter, returns home to celebrate his father’s eightieth birthday. His welcome is mixed, at best. But Canning has made the trip for more than just a glass of Pol...

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