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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...

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...

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