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Pictures of Lily

Pictures of Lily
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Will you marry me?’ I think of you, then. I think of you every day. But usually in the quietest part of the morning, or the darkest part of the night. Not when my boyfriend of two years has...

Puberty Blues

Puberty Blues
  • Author(s): Cathy Lette, Gabrielle Carey
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1970s

Kathy Lette’s first novel, written with her surfie chick friend Gabrielle Carey, when they were eighteen. Written twenty years ago, PUBERTY BLUES is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took Australia by storm and spawned...

Questions of Travel

Questions of Travel
  • Author(s): Michelle de Kretser
  • Location(s): Australia, London, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events. An enthralling array of people, places...

Roll With It

Roll With It
  • Author(s): Nick Place
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Real cops don’t wear lycra. At least that’s what Major Crime cop Tony Laver thought, until he became the sixth Victorian policeman to shoot a suspect in four months and was given a punishing reassignment. Now he’s looking at...

Roses for Sophie

Roses for Sophie
  • Author(s): Alyssa J Montgomery
  • Location(s): Hunter Valley, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Romance

From the polished, pacy, passionate pen of Alyssa J Montgomery come a delicious billionaire, a mining heiress, a marriage of convenience and a very inconvenient attraction. To convince the court that his playboy days are over and to keep...

Sarah Thornhill

Sarah Thornhill
  • Author(s): Kate Grenville
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800s

The last instalment of Kate Grenville’s trilogy of colonial Australia (The Secret River and The Lieutenant) is both a standalone story and an end to the unfinished saga of the Thornhill family. It offers two discrete reading experiences: those...

Shell

Shell
  • Author(s): Kristina Olsson
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Sydney, 1960s: newspaper reporter Pearl Keogh has been relegated to the women’s pages as punishment for her involvement in the anti-war movement, and is desperate to find her two young brothers before they are conscripted. Newly arrived from Sweden,...

Slow Man

Slow Man
  • Author(s): J M Coetzee
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On the Magill Road in Adelaide, Paul Rayment is cycling, had an accident and has his leg amputated. A succession of carers look after him at home and in particular he bonds with Marijana – they both grew up...

Smokescreen

Smokescreen
  • Author(s): Khaled Talib
  • Location(s): Argentina, Australia, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

The Plot to Assassinate the Israeli Prime Minister At an ancient café in Cairo, two veteran spies plot a covert mission to resolve — once and for all — the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. The pledge: Israel will make...

Sydney

Sydney
  • Author(s): Jan Morris
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

An original penal colonly, Morris builds up the captivating history of this city – brash, chic, wordly, a contrast of cultures..

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