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Tirra Lirra by the River

Tirra Lirra by the River
  • Author(s): Jessica Anderson
  • Location(s): Brisbane, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Life has become a series of escapes for Nora Porteous – from small-town family life: the hypocrisy of a mean-hearted husband and in-laws: and the suffocation of Suburbia. Nora endures with courage, intelligence and humour as, in this book,...

The Husband’s Secret

The Husband’s Secret
  • Author(s): Liane Moriarty
  • Location(s): Australia, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction

At the heart of the top ten bestselling The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty is a letter that’s not meant to be read . . . Mother of three and wife of John-Paul, Cecilia discovers an old envelope in...

The Railwayman’s Wife

The Railwayman’s Wife
  • Author(s): Ashley Hay
  • Location(s): Thirroul
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Pre and Post WW2

In a small town on the land’s edge, in the strange space at a war’s end, a widow, a poet and a doctor each try to find their own peace, and their own new story. On the south coast...

A Greater World

A Greater World
  • Author(s): Clare Flynn
  • Location(s): Blue Mountains
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920

Elizabeth, born into a prosperous family, and Michael, a miner, come from different worlds. They would never have met but the SS Historic, bound for Sydney, is a ship with only one class. Falling in love should have been...

A Handyman’s Best Tool

A Handyman’s Best Tool
  • Author(s): Alexis Fleming
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

What’s a girl to do when a sexy builder offers to be her tutor.in the bedroom? Three times dumped for not being adventurous in bed, Beth-Ann Harris is ripe for a steamy affair. Particularly when the man in question...

A Room Made of Leaves

A Room Made of Leaves
  • Author(s): Kate Grenville
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 18th Century

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION It is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her...

A Very Important Teapot

A Very Important Teapot
  • Author(s): Steve Sheppard
  • Location(s): Victoria, Shepparton, Wagga Wagga, Yackandandah
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Very Important Teapot is a comedy thriller revolving around the hunt for a lost cache of Nazi diamonds in Australia. Dawson’s life is going nowhere. Out of work and nearly out of money, he is forlornly pursuing the...

Amnesty

Amnesty
  • Author(s): Aravind Adiga
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Danny–formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam–is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia who fled from Sri Lanka and was denied refugee status. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he’s been trying to create a new,...

Apples Never Fall

Apples Never Fall
  • Author(s): Liane Moriarty
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Delaney family love one another dearly – it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . . Joy Delaney and husband Stan have done well. Four wonderful grown-up children. A family business to envy. The...

Ask Adam

Ask Adam
  • Author(s): Jess Dee
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

Can one wild night of passion turn into the romance of a lifetime? Lexi Tanner’s got a major problem: AJ Riley, the man she’s about to approach for a hefty donation, turns out to be the stranger she shared...

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