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The Artist’s Portrait

The Artist’s Portrait
  • Author(s): Julie Keys
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 20th Century

A story about art, murder, and making your place in history. Whatever it was that drew me to Muriel, it wasn’t her charm. In 1992, morning sickness drives Jane to pre-dawn walks of her neighbourhood where she meets an...

The Bachelor and Spinster Ball

The Bachelor and Spinster Ball
  • Author(s): Janet Gover
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sexy Nick, feisty Bec and dreamy Hailey all grew up together in the tiny town of Farwell Creek. In fact, Nick and Bec were the town’s teen-dream couple, until Bec made a break for it and shook the dust...

The Beaten Track

The Beaten Track
  • Author(s): Louise Mangos
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...

The Bluebird Brooch – A Dual Timeline Mystery

The Bluebird Brooch – A Dual Timeline Mystery
  • Author(s): Rosemary Noble
  • Location(s): Australia, England
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1855- 2020

A betrayed and lonely young woman. An old lady locked in silence and regret. The ghosts of mothers who made their own choices. When her controlling boyfriend runs out on her, Laura believes she must pick up the pieces...

The Bone Sparrow

The Bone Sparrow
  • Author(s): Zana Fraillon
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Winner of the CILIP Amnesty Honour 2017. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017. Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. This is a beautiful, vivid and deeply moving story...

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 Broken River

The Broken River
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A masterclass of small-town mystery and jaw-dropping twists from Chris Hammer, the international bestselling author of Scrublands, The Times Crime Book of the Year 2023 Dead Man’s Creek and Crime Book of the Month (January 2024) Cover the Bones....

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...

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