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A Nurse Abroad

A Nurse Abroad
  • Author(s): Anne Watts
  • Location(s): Alice Springs, Northern Canada
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

In the early 1960s, Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse, eager to use her skills. Her father expected her to work locally, not too far from North Wales, where Anne had grown up, and to then settle down...

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...

Consider Yourself Kissed

Consider Yourself Kissed
  • Author(s): Jessica Stanley
  • Location(s): Darwin, Hackney, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary (2017-23)

What’s the grown-up meaning of ‘happily ever after’? When she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty, and (he insists) a quarter of an inch taller than the average British...

Don’t Mean a Thing

Don’t Mean a Thing
  • Author(s): Renee Conoulty
  • Location(s): Darwin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

What if you finally took the lead, but life refused to follow? Thirty-year-old introvert, Macie Harman, has finally found a career she is passionate about, and after months of training, she’s begun her new job in the Royal Australian...

Kakadu Sunset

Kakadu Sunset
  • Author(s): Annie Seaton
  • Location(s): Darwin, Kakadu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Helicopter pilot Ellie Porter loves her job. Soaring above the glorious Kakadu National Park, she feels freed from the heavy losses of her beloved family farm and the questions around her father’s suicide. But when a search-and-rescue mission on...

Outback Ferals

Outback Ferals
  • Author(s): Hazel Edwards
  • Location(s): Darwin, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Children, Environmental
  • Era(s): Current day

Environmental activist Kyle has just arrived in Darwin for a temporary job checking gardens for diseased vines. Seems easy enough, but Kyle’s job also involves working undercover-befriending a chopper pilot who may be bringing in illegal bugs into the...

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