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- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s-2010
Song of the Sun God is about the wisdom, mistakes and sacrifices of our past that enable us to live more freely in the future. Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the...
- Location(s): London, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1700s
Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s. Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is a precarious...
- Location(s): Tamil Nadu, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Connor, an Australian expat with a brutal past, spends his time running low-stakes scams on tourists in a sleepy beachside town. Sasha, an American in search of spiritual guidance, heads to an isolated ashram in the hope of mending...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 20th Century
A story about art, murder, and making your place in history. Whatever it was that drew me to Muriel, it wasn’t her charm. In 1992, morning sickness drives Jane to pre-dawn walks of her neighbourhood where she meets an...
- Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...
- Location(s): Cornwall, Chile, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Present-day, 1800s
A buried secret… Present day: Anna is focused on growing her new gardening business and renovating her late grandmother’s house. But when she discovers a box hidden in a wall cavity, containing water colours of exotic plants, an old...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
Moving 10,000 miles from home might just save the Parkes family bacon. And it could possibly be what their marriage needs. But what if these new ‘opportunities’ like overcoming a fear of spiders, learning to swim in the ocean...
- Location(s): Sydney, Java, Yogyakarta
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): contemporary
When Adi leaves his village in Indonesia to take up an art scholarship in Australia, he arrives in the bewildering Sydney art world, determined to succeed. Following his first solo exhibition at a smart art gallery, Adi dares to...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1890s
- Location(s): Surry Hills
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Ruth Park’s classic novel The Harp in the South is one of Australia’s greatest novels. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money...
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