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The Inland Sea

The Inland Sea
  • Author(s): Madeleine Watts
  • Location(s): Australia, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and early 19th century

A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying world. In the early nineteenth century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water – ‘the inland sea’. He never...

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 Italian Secret

The Italian Secret
  • Author(s): Tara Moss
  • Location(s): Naples, Pacific Ocean, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

Naples, 1943. Deep within a secret network of underground tunnels, a woman takes shelter from a wartime air raid and prays her husband will return home safe. Pacific Ocean, 1907. A girl embarks on a lonely journey to begin...

The Journey After the Crown

The Journey After the Crown
  • Author(s): Andrew Mackie
  • Location(s): World, Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1954

A young Queen. Two sisters. A voyage that will change their fates forever. Nineteen-year-old identical twins Violet and Daisie Chettle can hardly believe their luck when they are recruited as maids on newly coronated Queen Elizabeth II’s royal ship....

The Last Encore

The Last Encore
  • Author(s): Rebecca Heath
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

It’s been eighteen years since the accidental explosion that killed The Cedrics Band lead singer Jonny Rake, and a special documentary is bringing the rest of the band back to play together for the first time. With Jonny’s daughter,...

The Legacy of Beauregarde

The Legacy of Beauregarde
  • Author(s): Rosa Fedele
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Noir
  • Era(s): 1980s

‘You could lose someone down there, couldn’t you? Anyone could get buried under the concrete slab, and no one would even know!’ The Beauregarde women have lived in the shadow of The Seminary for four generations. And there is...

The Legacy of Old Gran Parks

The Legacy of Old Gran Parks
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

Set in Cann River in Australia’s rugged southern wilderness, The Legacy of Old Gran Parks is a tale of a remote town haunted by a legacy, a legacy with ominous consequences. It’s a warm evening in the autumn of...

The Lines We Cross

The Lines We Cross
  • Author(s): Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Michael is drawn to his new classmate Mina, but they’re on opposite sides of an issue that’s tearing their town apart. His parents are part of an anti-immigration group, while her family have fled their besieged home in Afghanistan....

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
  • Author(s): Richard Flanagan
  • Location(s): Hobart
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving―and astonishing―best. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying―if her three children would just allow it....

The Lost Daughter

The Lost Daughter
  • Author(s): Gill Paul
  • Location(s): Australia, Russia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919 - 1973

A Russian princess. An extraordinary sacrifice. A captivating secret… From the author of The Secret Wife, a gripping journey through decades and across continents, of love, devastating loss and courage against all odds. 1918 With the country they once...

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