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The Happiest Refugee

The Happiest Refugee
  • Author(s): Anh Do
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): late 1970s onwards

Anh Do nearly didn’t make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing – not murderous pirates, nor the imminent...

The Harp In The South

The Harp In The South
  • Author(s): Ruth Park
  • Location(s): Surry Hills
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Ruth Park’s classic novel The Harp in the South is one of Australia’s greatest novels. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money...

The Hobart Hotel

The Hobart Hotel
  • Author(s): Mary-Lou Stephens
  • Location(s): Hobart
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s / 1970s

December 1939: The grand opening of Australia’s most glamorous and talked about hotel, the Wrest Point Riviera. The equally glamorous Sabine Winters, recently arrived in Hobart from the Continent, anticipates a safe port from the storm that rages in...

The Hypnotist’s Love Story

The Hypnotist’s Love Story
  • Author(s): Liane Moriarty
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hypnotherapist Ellen O’Farrell has been single for a while, which is why she’s so taken with her handsome new boyfriend, Patrick. But Patrick has a confession: he has a stalker, an ex-girlfriend who won’t leave him alone. Ellen is...

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...

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