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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
  • Author(s): Robert Hillman
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The perfect book for anyone who’s ever had their heart broken, anyone who’s ever had their broken heart mended, and anyone who’s ever visited a bookshop… Tom Hope doesn’t chase rainbows. He does his best on the farm –...

The Botanist’s Daughter

The Botanist’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Kayte Nunn
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Chile, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Present-day, 1800s

A buried secret… Present day: Anna is focused on growing her new gardening business and renovating her late grandmother’s house. But when she discovers a box hidden in a wall cavity, containing water colours of exotic plants, an old...

The Case of the Missing Bride

The Case of the Missing Bride
  • Author(s): Carmen Radtke
  • Location(s): Australia, Pacific Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1800s

When a girl goes missing on board of an ocean liner, only one person is convinced that the disappearance is no accident. Alyssa has found herself with a group of impoverished girls who are embarking from Australia to Canada...

The Case of the Wandering Corpse

The Case of the Wandering Corpse
  • Author(s): David Cairns of Finavon
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1800s

From the conflict in 1830’s Zululand to a staged robbery in the Gold Fields of Australia in 1859, a developing mystery requires the wit and intellect of Victorian private detectives Findo Gask and Erroll Rait. When Major Gask is...

The Chance of a Lifetime

The Chance of a Lifetime
  • Author(s): Kendra Smith
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Moving 10,000 miles from home might just save the Parkes family bacon. And it could possibly be what their marriage needs. But what if these new ‘opportunities’ like overcoming a fear of spiders, learning to swim in the ocean...

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
  • Author(s): Thomas Keneally
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Half aborigine and half white, Jimmie Blacksmith is unable to fit into either culture and, after abuse and betrayal by whites, revolts in a spree of violence.

The Colour of Things Unseen

The Colour of Things Unseen
  • Author(s): Annee Lawrence
  • Location(s): Sydney, Java, Yogyakarta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

When Adi leaves his village in Indonesia to take up an art scholarship in Australia, he arrives in the bewildering Sydney art world, determined to succeed. Following his first solo exhibition at a smart art gallery, Adi dares to...

The Dog Runner

The Dog Runner
  • Author(s): Bren MacDibble
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): early 21st century

‘That ugly red fungus killed all the wheat for flour, killed all the oat, and sugar cane for sugar and golden syrup, along with all the grass for cows and butter. Killed just about every ingredient that me and...

The Exiles

The Exiles
  • Author(s): Christina Baker Kline
  • Location(s): Australia, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is...

The Family at Misrule

The Family at Misrule
  • Author(s): Ethel Turner
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

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