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Red River Road

Red River Road
  • Author(s): Anna Downes
  • Location(s): Coral Coast, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Katy Sweeney is determined to find her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, free-spirited Phoebe vanished without a trace on Western Australia’s remote and achingly beautiful Coral Coast. With no witnesses, no leads,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): Adrian McKinty
  • Location(s): Australia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but...

The Middle of Nowhere

The Middle of Nowhere
  • Author(s): Geraldine McCaughrean
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction

When Mary Pinny dies from a snakebite, she leaves her young daughter, Comity, and husband Herbert in the Middle of Nowhere. As Stationmaster of the Kinkindele Repeater Station, Herbert Pinny takes great pride in his job: receiving morse messages...

The Outback

The Outback
  • Author(s): David Clarkson
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Matt joins the outback harvest trail so that he can get another year added to his visa. When he arrives to find that drink, drugs and sex are just as easy to come by as they were on the...

The Outback

The Outback
  • Author(s): Sara Ochs
  • Location(s): Australia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was supposed to be paradise. For one group of friends, it’s a study abroad program like no other: a month-long adventure filled with sunshine, whirlwind romances, and all-night parties. But it isn’t long before their trip of a...

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