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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...

Open My Eyes

Open My Eyes
  • Author(s): Jennifer Collin
  • Location(s): Brisbane
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Everything happens for a reason, they say. And sometimes the reason is you’re stupid and make bad decisions. Sleeping with her sister’s best friend is one of the dumbest things soon-to-be divorcee Emily Evans has ever done. But she’s...

Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): Australia, England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 19th Century

This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent–a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms–could a...

Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Victorian

Lucinda, the main lady character, in this novel knows just what to do with her inheritance. She wants to study glass. It takes place in Australia. There is also a love interest named Oscar. It’s a good novel. If...

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...

Paradise

Paradise
  • Author(s): Patricia Wolf
  • Location(s): Surfer's Paradise, The Gold Coast
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DS Walker Thriller 2 Australia’s Gold Coast: On a stunningly beautiful stretch of coastline, a young mother is brutally murdered and her daughter, Gabby, is left in a coma, with her life hanging in the balance. DS Lucas Walker...

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
  • Author(s): Simon Rowe
  • Location(s): Japan, Australia, Austria, Cambodia, France, Hong Kong, Malaysia (Malaya), New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Current

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is short fiction for busy people who love to travel. Six of the stories are set in Japan, and the others in Hong Kong, East Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, France, Austria, the...

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