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Kookaburras, Cuppas, and Kangaroos

Kookaburras, Cuppas, and Kangaroos
  • Author(s): S Bavey
  • Location(s): Australia, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

Fueled by her spirit for adventure and with her £10.00 ticket in hand, Elizabeth Isle leaves 1960s England, determined to see it all, not just Australia and New Zealand, but as much as she can on the way, too....

Last One Out

Last One Out
  • Author(s): Jane Harper
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He had been here, that was clear from the marks in the dust. And he had been alone. In a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his twenty-first birthday. Sam never comes home....

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...

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Like Mother, Like Daughter
  • Author(s): Elle Croft
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Utterly absorbing and thought-provoking’ Caz Frear ‘What a premise, and packed with suspense’ Victoria Selman ‘A dark, delicious triumph’ Niki Mackay If what they said was true, then the grotesque and the monstrous ran in her blood. It was...

Limberlost

Limberlost
  • Author(s): Robbie Arnott
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ned West dreams of sailing across the river on a boat of his very own. To Ned, a boat means freedom – the fresh open water, squid-rich reefs, fires on private beaches – a far cry from life on...

Little Girl Lost

Little Girl Lost
  • Author(s): Janet Gover
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contempory

There is more than one way to be lost… When Tia Walsh rides into the small town of Coorah Creek on a Harley Davidson, Sergeant Max Delaney senses that everything about her spells trouble. But Tia’s trouble is not...

Long Distance Love

Long Distance Love
  • Author(s): AnneMarie Brear
  • Location(s): Australia, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Can one delicious summer affair be enough to keep them together? Fleur Stanthorpe, an Australian, arrives in Whitby, England to live out a dream after surviving cancer. She’s to open a bookshop cafe? and experience the English way of...

Lost to the Lake

Lost to the Lake
  • Author(s): Anna Willett
  • Location(s): Perth
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Following a home invasion, a woman begins to wonder if her perfect life was a lie. Beth Jacobsen wakes up in the middle of the night to a home break-in and is held at knife point. Her faithful dog...

Mad, Bad and Dead

Mad, Bad and Dead
  • Author(s): Sherryl Clark
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A dead employee. A missing child. Anonymous phone calls in the dead of night. Judi Westerholme’s troubles aren’t over yet… Already struggling to juggle co-running the local pub along with her new childcare responsibilities for her orphaned niece, Judi...

Misadventures in the Screen Trade

Misadventures in the Screen Trade
  • Author(s): Alison Ripley Cubitt
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa), Australia, Norway, United Kingdom, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s to the present

A young woman in a man’s world takes on the media industry. Can she hit the heights of her dreams, or will she fall flat on her face? Sydney 1981 Alison Ripley Cubitt couldn’t wait to make her mark....

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