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No Number Nine

No Number Nine
  • Author(s): F J Campbell
  • Location(s): Munich, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000

What do you do when your amazing, beloved sister dies? Hide in your room for two years. Sleep with a very, very wrong man. Leave home and start a new life, lying to everyone you meet including your kind...

North of Nowhere, South of Loss

North of Nowhere, South of Loss
  • Author(s): Janette Turner Hospital
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Dark and gripping short stories set in Australia

Not an Ordinary Life, from class enemy to the Hall of Fame and a lifetime in between

Not an Ordinary Life, from class enemy to the Hall of Fame and a lifetime in between
  • Author(s): Laszlo Hody
  • Location(s): Szeged, Budapest, Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940-2015

A compelling and adventurous story that unfolds in Hungary, a country caught up in the frightening political and social issues of the 40’s and 50’s. Les’ early family life was one of privilege and success, but it quickly changed...

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia
  • Author(s): Frank Kusy
  • Location(s): India, Australia, London, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

One man. Four continents. And a love-crazed travel writer going off the beaten track… In 1989, Frank Kusy found himself the unwilling love pawn of a booted and bodiced Boadicea on a Harley low rider. Then he fell in...

On the Beach

On the Beach
  • Author(s): Nevil Shute
  • Location(s): South Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Future
  • Era(s): Future

After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them...

On the Jellicoe Road

On the Jellicoe Road
  • Author(s): Melina Marchetta
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 200s

I’m dreaming of the boy in the tree. I tell him stories. About the Jellicoe School and the Townies and the Cadets from a school in Sydney. I tell him about the war between us for territory. And I...

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...

One for the Road

One for the Road
  • Author(s): Tony Horowitz
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he...

One More Chance At Love

One More Chance At Love
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): St Lucia, Australia, Guatemala, Mallorca, San Francisco, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Thirty years ago, as teenagers, lawyer, Bobby McLean and travel writer, Sicora Clarke shared an intense love affair and had a happy future planned. But when Sicora ended it with no explanation and Bobby never heard from her again,...

Only Daughter

Only Daughter
  • Author(s): Anna Snoekstra
  • Location(s): Canberra, Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’d been enjoying her teenage summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. Mysteriously ominous things began to happen—blood in the bed, periods of blackouts, a feeling of being...

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