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Voltaire’s Garden: A memoir of Cobargo

Voltaire’s Garden: A memoir of Cobargo
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Voltaire’s Garden is a memoir of creating a sustainable lifestyle, back-to-earth style, on a fifteen-acre cattle paddock in an idyllic pocket of southeast Australia, made famous by the bushfires of New Year’s Eve 2019. Award-winning author Isobel Blackthorn introduces...

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...

When Adam Met Evie

When Adam Met Evie
  • Author(s): Giulia Skye
  • Location(s): The Kimberley
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When former Olympic Swimmer, Michael Adams—now reluctantly Canada’s hottest reality TV star— insults his fake showbiz wife on social media, he escapes the ensuing scandal and jumps on the first flight to Australia. Desperate to experience ordinary life again—if...

Where the Trees Were

Where the Trees Were
  • Author(s): Inga Simpson
  • Location(s): Canberra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century / early 2000s

‘All in?’ Kieran pulled me up, and the others followed. We gathered around the bigger tree. No one asked Matty – he just reached up and put his right hand on the trunk with ours. Kieran cleared his throat....

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