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Scrublands

Scrublands
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A dead river. A dying town. A killer’s secrets… In an isolated country town ravaged by drought, a charismatic young priest opens fire on his congregation, killing five men before being shot dead himself. A year later, journalist Martin...

Search for the Light

Search for the Light
  • Author(s): Rosemary Noble
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1820s

A moment’s foolish mistake costs sixteen-year old Nora her freedom and her family. Sentenced to transportation she has to grow up fast to survive prison, the long journey and then life as an assigned servant in Van Diemen’s Land...

Secrets of the Sea

Secrets of the Sea
  • Author(s): Nicholas Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the...

Shadow Boxing

Shadow Boxing
  • Author(s): Tony Birch
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1960s

A young boy growing up in the Fitzroy area of Melbourne in the 60s

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...

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