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Trust

Trust
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a bright sunny day in Port Silver, ex-journalist Martin Scarsden misses a call from his girlfriend Mandy. Checking his voicemail later, all he hears is her terrified scream before the phone cuts off. Back at the house, he...

Trust Me, I’m Dead

Trust Me, I’m Dead
  • Author(s): Sherryl Clark
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When Judi Westerholme finds out her estranged brother has been murdered, she assumes it’s connected to his long term drug addiction. Returning home, she is shocked to discover he had been clean for years, had a wife – now...

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...

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...

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