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Castaway

Castaway
  • Author(s): Lucy Irvine
  • Location(s): Tuin Island
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

Lucy Irvine replied to an advertisement which simply said: ” Writer seeks “wife” for a year on a tropical island.” Most of us would have probably thought about how wonderful it would be to get away for a year,...

Chasing The Sun

Chasing The Sun
  • Author(s): Katy Colins
  • Location(s): New South Wales, Great Ocean Road, Victoria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Live-in boyfriend, perfect career and great friends, it seems like Georgia is only a Tiffany box away from her happily ever after. But when she arrives in Australia for her best friend’s wedding and is faced with the bridezilla...

Deep South

Deep South
  • Author(s): Ralph Crane & Danielle Wood (editors)
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

This handsome collection, the first to bring together the finest stories about Tasmania, includes works by notable early Australian writers, such as Marcus Clarke and Tasma: internationally renowned practitioners, like Hal Porter, Carmel Bird and Nicholas Shakespeare: and a...

Diamond Dove

Diamond Dove
  • Author(s): Adrian Hyland
  • Location(s): Northern Territory
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This terrific debut by Adrian Hyland features Emily Tempest, a half-Aborigine woman who returns to the outback village she grew up in to find an old friend murdered. Hyland promises more books, with Tempest becoming a bona fide police...

Down Outback Roads

Down Outback Roads
  • Author(s): Alissa Callen
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Romance

Kree Garrett’s younger brother Seth is all the family she has left, so when he goes missing in the Australian outback, she doesn’t think twice about leaving her American home to find him. When Seth is rescued Kree vows...

Down Under

Down Under
  • Author(s): Bill Bryson
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

English Passengers

English Passengers
  • Author(s): Matthew Kneale
  • Location(s): Isle of Man, Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley wants only to smuggle a little tobacco, brandy and French pornography from the Isle of Mann to a secluded beach in England. Yet somehow in the process he and his crew end up weighing anchor...

Farewell, My Orange

Farewell, My Orange
  • Author(s): Iwaki Kei
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Two immigrants, Salimah and Sayuri, navigate isolation, a new language, and devastating loss on their way to a lifelong friendship. Far from her native country of Nigeria and now living as a single mother of two, Salimah works the...

Finding Jasper

Finding Jasper
  • Author(s): Lynne Leonhardt
  • Location(s): Perth, Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

It is 1956, and twelve-year old Gin has arrived at the family farm, ‘Grasswood’, in the South West of Western Australia. She has been left in the care of her lively, idiosyncratic aunt, Attie, while her mother, an English...

Flight to Coorah Creek

Flight to Coorah Creek
  • Author(s): Janet Gover
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

What happens when you can fly, but you just can’t hide?Only Jessica Pearson knows the truth when the press portray her as the woman who betrayed her lover to escape prosecution. But will her new job flying an outback...

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