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Maralinga

Maralinga
  • Author(s): Judy Nunn
  • Location(s): Maralinga
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infant nation is being decided – without its people’s knowledge. In the spring of 1956, British Lieutenant Daniel...

Master of Maramba

Master of Maramba
  • Author(s): Margaret Way
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Needing a bolt-hole where she can lick her wounds after a car accident has destroyed her budding career, Catrina Russell jumps at the chance of a job as governess on a North Queensland cattle station. Carrie wouldn’t have been...

Master’s Mates

Master’s Mates
  • Author(s): Peter Corris
  • Location(s): New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie), Sydney
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Peter Corris’ world weary but always charismatic hero Cliff Hardy has long been established as Australia’s favourite investigator. Often bloodied but never bowed in this latest gripping novel, Hardy is in pursuit of missing millions from Sydney to the...

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap
  • Author(s): Tim Richards
  • Location(s): London, Melbourne, Prague, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Darius Ibrahim is not having a good week. He’s been threatened by a knife-wielding maniac on a London train, interrogated by a mysterious warrior woman beneath the city’s streets, pursued by a military death squad in Melbourne, had his...

Monkey Grip

Monkey Grip
  • Author(s): Helen Garner
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In Monkey Grip, Helen Garner charts the lives of a generation. Her characters are exploring new ways of loving and living – and nothing is harder than learning to love lightly. Nora and Javo are trapped in a desperate...

Nine Months of Summer

Nine Months of Summer
  • 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...

Not Always to Plan

Not Always to Plan
  • Author(s): Colin Bisset
  • Location(s): Australia, India, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Dorman family lives a humdrum existence in a surfing suburb of Sydney until they are rocked by upheaval. Change is inevitable, but is it welcome? All that is certain is that each member of the family will have...

One for the Road: An Outback Adventure

One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
  • Author(s): Tony Horowitz
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he...

Oyster

Oyster
  • Author(s): Janette Turner Hospital
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction

This story of a cult messiah, Oyster, is set in an outback opal mining town in Queensland. The novel attempts to explore the clash of extreme cultural differences – the nature of evil, the relationship between good and evil...

Oz

Oz
  • Author(s): Bobbie Darbyshire
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/modern

Mark’s life is a mess. He’s been cheating on his wife, fears his marriage is over, but can’t bear to leave his boisterous 7-year-old daughter, Matilda. Just when he thinks things can’t get worse, his mother is killed in...

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