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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....

While I Walk: Solo Adventuring in the Vast, Beautiful World

While I Walk: Solo Adventuring in the Vast, Beautiful World
  • Author(s): Rachel Durchslag
  • Location(s): South America, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current Day

Thoughtful and authentic, this powerful memoir explores not only who we are in the world but what the world longs to teach us. Join explorer Rachel Durchslag as she travels and hikes in Nepal, Chile, Japan and beyond. Beautifully...

Wintering

Wintering
  • Author(s): Krissy Kneen
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jessica is a PhD candidate living in southernmost Tasmania, studying the activity of the glow worms that inhabit Winter Cave, an untouched haven she discovered herself. Aside from study and work, Jessica spends most of her time with her...

With bare feet and sandy toes: Growing up in Australia in the 1960s and 70s

With bare feet and sandy toes: Growing up in Australia in the 1960s and 70s
  • Author(s): Catherine Berry
  • Location(s): Australia, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s and 70s

Does looking back help you move forward? Not always. But, like Catherine’s first two memoirs, writing With bare feet and sandy toes: Growing up in Australia in the 1960s and 70s, came at the right time for her after...

Words in Deep Blue

Words in Deep Blue
  • Author(s): Cath Crowley
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Years ago, Rachel had a crush on Henry Jones. The day before she moved away, she tucked a love letter into his favorite book in his family’s bookshop. She waited. But Henry never came. Now Rachel has returned to...

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