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The New Shoe

The New Shoe
  • Author(s): Arthur Upfield
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

THE NEWLYWED

THE NEWLYWED
  • Author(s): Anna Willett
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detectives dig deep to discover what happened to a lost bride After travelling to the breezy seaside town of Seabreak with her new husband to meet his twin brother, Jane Wilson vanishes without a trace. There is never any...

The Night Guest

The Night Guest
  • Author(s): Fiona McFarlane
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction

In an isolated house on the New South Wales coast, Ruth – a widow whose sons work abroad – lives alone. Until one day a stranger bowls up, announcing that she’s been sent by the authorities to be Ruth’s...

The Norfolk Island Sound and Light Show

The Norfolk Island Sound and Light Show
  • Author(s): June Allen
  • Location(s): Norfolk Island, Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): early 19th Century

This long running tourist attraction on Norfolk Island centres on the historic buildings of the early 19th Century many of which were restored circa 1980. Within the original buildings the most incorrigible criminals who had been transported from England...

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...

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