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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...

Stalker

Stalker
  • Author(s): Hazel Edwards
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 2000

Lily is being stalked. As 3BC FM’s midnight- to- dawn presenter, Lily attracts followers. But the Stalker is different. Obsessive. Possessive. And dangerous. Lily copes with hate-mail, a wreath, and even her temporary desire for celeb status with ‘...

Stolen

Stolen
  • Author(s): Lucy Christopher
  • Location(s): Australia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story....

Stone Yard Devotional

Stone Yard Devotional
  • Author(s): Charlotte Wood
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Australian outback. She doesn’t...

STRANGE BODIES

STRANGE BODIES
  • Author(s): Antonia Marlowe
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2067

“Totally gripping, recommend it highly, I could not put this novel down.” Tony Meadows “I was hooked from the moment I read the opening paragraphs of this thriller” M J Fhay “A brilliantly crafted thriller set in a cleverly...

Stuffed!

Stuffed!
  • Author(s): Johannes Kerkhoven
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 20th century and beyond

In the title story of this book, Fritz Carter, on the death of his wife, starts a new life as an opal prospector at Lightning Ridge. He buys a deserted mine, but finds working it too taxing, so he...

Surf, Sweat & Tears: the Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst

Surf, Sweat & Tears: the Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst
  • Location(s): Australia, California, England, Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1957-now

What really happened to Ted, Viscount Deerhurst, surfing professional, the “Lord on a Board”? Lee Child said: “I don’t usually read books about surfers, but this is like Truman Capote with shorts.” When I met Ted, he was a...

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