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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...

Ruthless Billionaire, Forbidden Baby

Ruthless Billionaire, Forbidden Baby
  • Author(s): Emma Darcy
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

Innocent mistress, baby of shame When Tamalyn Haynes agrees to be a bridesmaid she doesn’t realise she will be dancing with the devil – best man and notorious tycoon Fletcher Stanton! Fletcher is relentless in pursuing his desires and...

Sabotage on the Solar Express

Sabotage on the Solar Express
  • Author(s): Elisa Paganelli (Illustrator), M G Leonard, Sam Sedgman
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Adventures on Trains, 5) Billionaire train enthusiast August Reza has invited Harrison Beck and Uncle Nat on the maiden voyage of the Solar Express – the winning design of his Reza’s Rocket competition. But during the journey, they discover...

Salt Creek

Salt Creek
  • Author(s): Lucy Treloar
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1850s

A story of love, duty, hardship and intolerance told by a strong woman in 1850s colonial Australia. Hester Finch’s comfortable life in Chichester, England, could not be further from the hardship her family endured on leaving Adelaide for Salt...

Sanctuary

Sanctuary
  • Author(s): Garry Disher
  • Location(s): Adelaide Hills
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

NO ONE CAN RUN FOREVER… Grace is a thief – a good one. But she’s always on the move, always looking over her shoulder, always alone. It’s not the life she wants. Then a run-in with an old associate...

Saree

Saree
  • Author(s): Su Dharmapala
  • Location(s): Australia, India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Crossing continents and spanning decades, Saree is an epic story of beauty, oppression and freedom, for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Mosse. Nila wasn’t born beautiful or powerful or rich – but she has a rare talent to...

Savage Bay Nightmare

Savage Bay Nightmare
  • Author(s): Anna Willett
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

When Lucy Hush’s brother is framed for murder, the race is on to find the real culprit. Tim Hush is a drifter who prefers the solitude of the vast Australian wilderness to human company. But he falls for an...

Saving Francesca

Saving Francesca
  • Author(s): Melina Marchetta
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn’t allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn’t bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If...

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