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Shallows

Shallows
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Tim Winton brings the landscape to life in Shallows, a historical fiction novel about pride and loneliness. One hundred and fifty years after the establishment of land-based whaling in Australia, its last outpost is Angelus, a small town already...

Silver

Silver
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A HOMECOMING MARRED BY BLOOD Journalist Martin Scarsden returns to Port Silver to make a fresh start with his partner Mandy. But he arrives to find his childhood friend murdered – and Mandy is the prime suspect. Desperate to...

Skylarking

Skylarking
  • Author(s): Kate Mildenhall
  • Location(s): Canberra
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Kate and Harriet are best friends, growing up together on an isolated Australian cape in the 1880s. As daughters of the lighthouse keepers, the two girls share everything, until a fisherman, McPhail, arrives in their small community. When Kate...

Small Town Nightmare

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

A young drifter is in deep trouble, his sister is his only hope… Lucy’s younger brother has gone missing. When she sets out to find him, the trail takes her to Night Town. It’s a rural backwater deep in...

Somewhere Only We Know

Somewhere Only We Know
  • Author(s): Cathy Bramley
  • Location(s): Bali, Nepal, Sydney, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

When Magnolia Jones finds her daughter’s travel journal, she can think of no better way to honour her life than setting off on the gap year trip that twenty-three-year-old Brontë had dreamed of taking. It was meant to be...

Son of Hydra

Son of Hydra
  • Author(s): Shelley Dark
  • Location(s): Malta, New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1829 onwards

He had everything — power, privilege, a future. One reckless decision cost him his name, his freedom, and everything he thought defined a man. Sydney, 1829. Ghikas Voulgaris was born to command — the proud son of a powerful...

Son of Hydra: A Historical Novel of Love, Exile, Redemption, and Australia’s First Greek Convict

Son of Hydra: A Historical Novel of Love, Exile, Redemption, and Australia’s First Greek Convict
  • Author(s): Shelley Dark
  • Location(s): Greece, Australia, Malta
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800s

He had everything — power, privilege, a future. One reckless decision cost him his name, his freedom, and everything he thought defined a man. Sydney, 1829. Ghikas Voulgaris was born to command — the proud son of a powerful...

Song of the Sun God

Song of the Sun God
  • Author(s): Shankari Chandran
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s-2010

Song of the Sun God is about the wisdom, mistakes and sacrifices of our past that enable us to live more freely in the future. Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the...

South of Darkness

South of Darkness
  • Author(s): John Marsden
  • Location(s): London, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1700s

Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s. Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is a precarious...

Spiral

Spiral
  • Author(s): Khaled Talib
  • Location(s): South Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Laurence Turner, a pharmacist from Sydney, is wracked with guilt after his fiancé dies on a sailing trip. The tragedy is followed by yet another fatal incident when he dispenses the wrong medication to a customer. Laurence moves to...

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