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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...

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...

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