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The Oceans Between Us

The Oceans Between Us
  • Author(s): Gill Thompson
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

A woman is found wandering injured in London after an air raid. She remembers nothing of who she is. Only that she has lost something very precious. As the little boy waits in the orphanage, he hopes his mother...

The Opposite of Life

The Opposite of Life
  • Author(s): Narrelle Harris
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Modern

Lissa Wilson has seen more than enough death in her family, so when people start being savagely killed whenever she has a night out in Melbourne with her beautiful new boyfriend, she’s determined to investigate and to make the...

The Other Side of the World

The Other Side of the World
  • Author(s): Stephanie Bishop
  • Location(s): Australia, Cambridge, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Cambridge 1963. Charlotte struggles to reconnect with the woman she was before children, and to find the time and energy to paint. Her husband, Henry, cannot face the thought of another English winter. A brochure slipped through the letterbox...

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...

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 Pact

The Pact
  • Author(s): Lisa Darcy
  • Location(s): Melbourne, Wimbledon, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sisters are for life, aren’t they? The Pact is a gripping narrative about winning and losing, and pushing through when you have nothing left to give. Samantha and Annie Callahan are successful doubles champions–the toast of the Olympics, Wimbledon...

The Paris Model

The Paris Model
  • Author(s): Alexandra Joel
  • Location(s): Australia, France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Historical fiction based on a true story about an Australian woman who became a Dior model in post-WW2 Paris.

The Performance

The Performance
  • Author(s): Claire Thomas
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything. One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside...

The Persimmon Tree

The Persimmon Tree
  • Author(s): Bryce Courtenay
  • Location(s): Java, Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century looking back to WW2

Set among the Pacific islands and in the Indian Ocean, The Persimmon Tree tells the very personal and often romantic stories of men and women caught up in larger events – in this case starting with the Japanese invasion...

The Philosopher’s Daughters

The Philosopher’s Daughters
  • Author(s): Alison Booth
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1890s

A tale of two very different sisters whose 1890s voyage from London into remote outback Australia becomes a journey of self-discovery, set against a landscape of wild beauty and savage dispossession. London in 1891: Harriet Cameron is a talented...

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