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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...

5 Peppermint Grove

5 Peppermint Grove
  • Author(s): Michelle Walsh Jackson
  • Location(s): Dublin, Perth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2011/2012

Emigration, emigration, emigration . . . Ruth Travers is leaving Ireland like so many of the Irish Diaspora who have gone before her. But, instead of a coffin ship, she’s travelling business class on a Boeing 777 and will...

Benang

Benang
  • Author(s): Kim Scott
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

A powerful and triumphant novel concerned with the reclaiming of personal and cultural history. The narrator sets out to trace his connection to family and country through the minefield of post colonial Aboriginal history. This writer has the scope...

Cloudstreet

Cloudstreet
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Perth
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

Perth, Australia, towards the end of WW2.The Lambs and the Pickles are forced by dint of circumstance to share a run down house on Cloudstreet. Each member has his/her story to tell in lovely rendered detail and everyday experience....

Finding Jasper

Finding Jasper
  • Author(s): Lynne Leonhardt
  • Location(s): Perth, Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

It is 1956, and twelve-year old Gin has arrived at the family farm, ‘Grasswood’, in the South West of Western Australia. She has been left in the care of her lively, idiosyncratic aunt, Attie, while her mother, an English...

Heist

Heist
  • Author(s): Robert Schofield
  • Location(s): The Outback, Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Ford laid his fingertips gently on the cut in his shoulder where the bullet had clipped him. His best chance would be to hitch a ride south at the first opportunity, before the police started looking for him. He...

Jasper Jones

Jasper Jones
  • Author(s): Craig Silvey
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1960s

Summer, 1965. In the fictional town of Corrigan, WA. Late one night, thirteen-year-old Charlie Bucktin is startled by a knock on his window. His visitor is Jasper Jones. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is intriguing. And he needs Charlie’s...

Land’s Edge

Land’s Edge
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

On childhood holidays to the western coast, Tim Winton’s days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings, the sun and surf kept him outside, in the water. In the afternoons, as the horizon wobbled with mirages and the wind...

Tears of the Moon

Tears of the Moon
  • Author(s): Di Morrissey
  • Location(s): Broome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

Broome, Australia, 1893: It’s the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when young English bride Olivia Hennessy meets dashing pearling master Captain Tyndall, their lives are destined to be linked by the mysterious power of the...

The Sea Sisters

The Sea Sisters
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): Bali, California, Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Two sisters, one life-changing journey… There are some currents in the relationship between sisters that run so dark and so deep, it’s better for the people swimming on the surface never to know what’s beneath . . . Katie’s...

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