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Picnic At Hanging Rock

Picnic At Hanging Rock
  • Author(s): Joan Lindsay
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed...

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Rabbit-Proof Fence
  • Author(s): Doris Garimara Pilkington
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up...

Rah Rah and Roos Farming and Travel in the Great Southern Land

Rah Rah and Roos  Farming and Travel in the Great Southern Land
  • Author(s): Stephen Malins
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2002

Is it time you ditched the office and headed to the outback of Australia for the adventure of a lifetime? In 2002, a young Englishman left London behind to do just that. One year, 2,000 sheep: 4,000 km travelled....

Razorhurst

Razorhurst
  • Author(s): Justine Larbalestier
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

The setting: Razorhurst, 1932. The fragile peace between two competing mob bosses—Gloriana Nelson and Mr Davidson—is crumbling. Loyalties are shifting. Betrayals threaten. Kelpie knows the dangers of the Sydney streets. Ghosts have kept her alive, steering her to food...

Red Dirt Road

Red Dirt Road
  • Author(s): S R White
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pub town deep in the outback, two men are savagely murdered a month apart – their bodies elaborately arranged like angels. With no witnesses, no obvious motives and no apparent connections between the killings, how...

Red River Road

Red River Road
  • Author(s): Anna Downes
  • Location(s): Coral Coast, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Katy Sweeney is determined to find her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, free-spirited Phoebe vanished without a trace on Western Australia’s remote and achingly beautiful Coral Coast. With no witnesses, no leads,...

Remembering Babylon

Remembering Babylon
  • Author(s): David Malouf
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Mid-19th century

In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified...

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...

Ride The Wave

Ride The Wave
  • Author(s): Katherine Reilly
  • Location(s): Portugal, The Gold Coast
  • Genre(s): Erotica, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In surfing, everyone’s chasing the perfect ride… Twelve years ago, Leo Silva was a world champion surfer-until reckless partying and tabloid scandals ended his career. After a mysteriously sudden and early retirement, Leo retreated to a sleepy seaside village...

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...

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