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Tugga’s Mob

Tugga’s Mob
  • Author(s): Stephen Johnson
  • Location(s): Europe, Australia, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1980s, Present day

Waikato-born Judy Williams worked hard for her Big OE: London, Paris, Rome, Gallipoli. Her adventures were dutifully recorded in a diary. A trip journal that also details how the obsessive Tugga Tancred and his Kiwi mates turned Judy’s trip...

Two Old Fools Down Under

Two Old Fools Down Under
  • Author(s): Victoria Twead
  • Location(s): Australia, New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Present day

★ New York Times Bestselling author ★ When Vicky and Joe wave goodbye to their beloved Spanish village, they face their future in Australia with some trepidation. Now they must build a new life amongst strangers, snakes, and spiders...

Unforced Rhythms

Unforced Rhythms
  • Author(s): M D Wigg Jay Heyes
  • Location(s): Nairobi, Melbourne, Surrey, Tanzania
  • Genre(s): Comedy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Book two of the comedy series about the progress of Curates Chris Duncan, Ellie, Ravi and youth worker Mike who are largely going their separate ways geographically in book two. The Archdeacon’s (A.D) eldest daughter Eve is to spend...

Voss

Voss
  • Author(s): Patrick White
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only on a few occasions, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for...

Wake

Wake
  • Author(s): Shelley Burr
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

EVERYBODY THINKS THEY KNOW MINA McCREERY. EVERYONE HAS A THEORY ON WHAT HAPPENED TO HER SISTER. NOW IT’S TIME TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH… Mina McCreery’s sister Evelyn disappeared nineteen years ago. Her life has been defined by the...

Wally and the Bushfire

Wally and the Bushfire
  • Author(s): Shirley Read-Jahn
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Current, about a bushfire

Ideal for children transitioning from picture-books-only to text-only books.Wally, a young Australian water dragon, and his beloved friend, the little mouse called Pinky, are caught in an emergency. A terrible bushfire is raging and threatening to kill all in...

Wally and the Mouse

Wally and the Mouse
  • Author(s): Shirley Read-Jahn
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Current

Wally, a young Australian water dragon, meets Pinky, a little pink mouse. Will he eat her for dinner, or become her saviour, when a venomous red-bellied black snake slides into the billabong? What will happen when all of Pinky’s...

Weaving a French Life: An Australian story

Weaving a French Life: An Australian story
  • Author(s): Catherine Berry
  • Location(s): France, Australia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current

‘Weaving a French Life: An Australian story’ is a sequel to Catherine’s memoir ‘But you are in France, Madame.’ Seven years have passed since Catherine returned to Australia with her family after their French adventure. Has she been able...

What Alice Forgot

What Alice Forgot
  • Author(s): Liane Moriarty
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the...

What He Taught Her

What He Taught Her
  • Author(s): AnneMarie Brear
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Rob Healy has everything he wants, or will have once he’s built his new resort on a small island in the Pacific. A woman in his life isn’t planned at the moment, but when he sees Cassandra Kearns in...

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