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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...

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
  • Author(s): Holly Ringland
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Flowers, fire and fairy tales are the elements that will forever shape nine-year-old Alice Hart’s life, in The Lost Flower’s of Alice Hart, the international bestseller by Holly Ringland. Alice Hart lives in isolation by the sea, where her...

The Lucky Country

The Lucky Country
  • Author(s): Rose M Cullen
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The Glendon family seek a new home and fortune in The Lucky Country after Patrick’s farm in Ireland is bankrupted by a freak storm. Their journey traverses the epic landscape of Australia and their fate collides with a cast...

The Lucky Escape

The Lucky Escape
  • Author(s): Laura Jane Williams
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

ONE CANCELLED WEDDING When the day finally comes for Annie to marry Alexander, the last thing she expects is to be left standing at the altar. She was so sure he was Mr Right. Now, she has no idea...

The Memory of Tides

The Memory of Tides
  • Author(s): Angelo Loukakis
  • Location(s): Australia, Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

This moving novel of fate and love stretches from the mountains of Crete to the dreams of post-war Australia, is inspired by historical events, and of the Australian soldiers who took part in the Battle of Crete during World...

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 Mystery Down Under

The Mystery Down Under
  • Author(s): Christine McHaines
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A light-hearted cozy mystery full of colourful characters! Quentin Cadbury and Wanda Merrydrew have only been private detectives for a short time. Yet after locking horns with London’s criminal underworld, they now have a murderous villain on their tail....

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