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Restless Dolly Maunder

Restless Dolly Maunder
  • Author(s): Kate Grenville
  • Location(s): New South Wales, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her...

Ruth

Ruth
  • Author(s): Marlene S Lewis
  • Location(s): Papua New Guinea, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s / 1960s

From the lush Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea to working-class inner Sydney… Ruth follows the story of its protagonist, the only daughter of John and Alice Madison, coffee plantation owners. Set in the fifties and sixties, Ruth...

Ruthless Billionaire, Forbidden Baby

Ruthless Billionaire, Forbidden Baby
  • Author(s): Emma Darcy
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

Innocent mistress, baby of shame When Tamalyn Haynes agrees to be a bridesmaid she doesn’t realise she will be dancing with the devil – best man and notorious tycoon Fletcher Stanton! Fletcher is relentless in pursuing his desires and...

Salt Creek

Salt Creek
  • Author(s): Lucy Treloar
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1850s

A story of love, duty, hardship and intolerance told by a strong woman in 1850s colonial Australia. Hester Finch’s comfortable life in Chichester, England, could not be further from the hardship her family endured on leaving Adelaide for Salt...

Savage Bay Nightmare

Savage Bay Nightmare
  • Author(s): Anna Willett
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

When Lucy Hush’s brother is framed for murder, the race is on to find the real culprit. Tim Hush is a drifter who prefers the solitude of the vast Australian wilderness to human company. But he falls for an...

Saving Francesca

Saving Francesca
  • Author(s): Melina Marchetta
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn’t allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn’t bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If...

Scrublands

Scrublands
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A dead river. A dying town. A killer’s secrets… In an isolated country town ravaged by drought, a charismatic young priest opens fire on his congregation, killing five men before being shot dead himself. A year later, journalist Martin...

Search for the Light

Search for the Light
  • Author(s): Rosemary Noble
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1820s

A moment’s foolish mistake costs sixteen-year old Nora her freedom and her family. Sentenced to transportation she has to grow up fast to survive prison, the long journey and then life as an assigned servant in Van Diemen’s Land...

Secrets of the Sea

Secrets of the Sea
  • Author(s): Nicholas Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the...

Shadow Boxing

Shadow Boxing
  • Author(s): Tony Birch
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1960s

A young boy growing up in the Fitzroy area of Melbourne in the 60s

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