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A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice
  • Author(s): Nevil Shute
  • Location(s): Australia, Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940s

All the Rivers Run

All the Rivers Run
  • Author(s): Nancy Cato
  • Location(s): Victoria

Philadelphia Gordon is an artist, a riverboat skipper and a beautiful, independent woman. Orphaned by a shipwreck, Philadelphia grows up on the banks of her beloved Murray River in Australia with her kindly uncle and strict aunt, seemingly destined...

An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb

An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb
  • Author(s): Louise Wolhuter
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Jessie Else disappeared the summer the Lambs came to Magpie Beach. Not that the two events were connected at all, in reality; only in my own head, in my own world. They marked for me the end of a...

Anzac Girls

Anzac Girls
  • Author(s): Philip Rees
  • Location(s): Australia, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Turkey
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): World War I

By the end of World War 1, 45 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service, and over 200 decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance, but were soon confronted...

Asylum

Asylum
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Seeking asylum from the wreckage of her life, Yvette Grimm arrives in Australia on a holiday visa. She applies for permanent residency with no hope of success. Resisting advice that she marry to stay in the country, Yvette invests...

Bay of Fires

Bay of Fires
  • Author(s): Poppy Gee
  • Location(s): Bay of Fires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Deep in a national park on the east coast of Tasmania, the Bay of Fires is an idyllic holiday community. There are no more than a dozen shacks beside the lagoon – and secrets are hard to keep: the...

Bellevue

Bellevue
  • Author(s): Alison Booth
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

New South Wales, 1972. Following the death of her beloved Aunt Hilda, widow Clare Barclay inherits Bellevue, an historic property in the Blue Mountains township of Numbulla, Australia. Giving up her teaching job to move to the mountains, Clare...

Benang

Benang
  • Author(s): Kim Scott
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

A powerful and triumphant novel concerned with the reclaiming of personal and cultural history. The narrator sets out to trace his connection to family and country through the minefield of post colonial Aboriginal history. This writer has the scope...

Blueback: a Fable for All Ages

Blueback: a Fable for All Ages
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

From birth Abel lives by, from and for the sea. Set in Western Australia, Abel dives and befriends a grouper fish living in a cove and he comes to rely on the advice from the fish, whom he calls...

Breath

Breath
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

The story takes place on the Coast of Australia, a small town which is dominated by its sawmill and little else. Two teenagers, bored by their lives, become friends with an older man, who is, in fact a world-class...

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