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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...

Jessica

Jessica
  • Author(s): Bryce Courtenay
  • Location(s): The Outback, Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

Jessica is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl’s fight for justice against tremendous odds. A tomboy, Jessica is the pride of her father, as they work together on the struggling family farm. One quiet day,...

Legacy

Legacy
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

MARTIN SCARSDEN IS ON THE RUN. WILL THE DESERT SAVE HIM – OR BURY HIM? A bomb at his book launch. Gunfire in his hometown. Someone wants journalist Martin Scarsden dead. Fleeing for his life into the outback, he...

One Day on Our Blue Planet: In the Outback

One Day on Our Blue Planet: In the Outback
  • Author(s): Ella Bailey
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

If you love cute baby animals, come spend the day in the Australian outback with this adorable and bouncy kangaroo joey. From Ella Bailey’s acclaimed series of beautiful and educational picture books comes another tale of how one young...

Only Killers and Thieves

Only Killers and Thieves
  • Author(s): Paul Howarth
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

One scorching day in Australia deserted outback, Tommy McBride and his brother Billy return home to discover that their parents have been brutally murdered. Distraught and desperate for revenge, the young men set out in search of the killers....

Opal

Opal
  • Author(s): Patricia Wolf
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DS Walker 3 A small mining town. A brutal double murder. A killer among them. DS Lucas Walker is out bush with his little sister Grace from Boston. They’re fetching his cousin Blair, who’s been mining boulder opal in...

Opal Country

Opal Country
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

In the desolate outback town of Finnigans gap, police struggle to maintain law and order. Thieves pillage opal mines, religious fanatics recruit vulnerable youngsters and billionaires do as they please. Bodies… Then an opal miner is found crucified and...

Outback

Outback
  • Author(s): Patricia Wolf
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

TWO MISSING BACKPACKERS. ONE VAST OUTBACK. DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie, taking care of his dying grandmother. When two young German backpackers, Berndt and Rita, vanish from the area, he finds himself unofficially on...

Outback Ferals

Outback Ferals
  • Author(s): Hazel Edwards
  • Location(s): Darwin, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Children, Environmental
  • Era(s): Current day

Environmental activist Kyle has just arrived in Darwin for a temporary job checking gardens for diseased vines. Seems easy enough, but Kyle’s job also involves working undercover-befriending a chopper pilot who may be bringing in illegal bugs into the...

Red Dirt Road

Red Dirt Road
  • Author(s): S R White
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pub town deep in the outback, two men are savagely murdered a month apart – their bodies elaborately arranged like angels. With no witnesses, no obvious motives and no apparent connections between the killings, how...

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