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Cassandra

Cassandra
  • Author(s): Kathryn Gossow
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is the future set like concrete, or a piece of clay we can mould and change? On a remote farm in Queensland, Cassie Shultz feels useless. Her perfect brother Alex has an uncanny ability to predict the weather, and...

The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle

The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle
  • Author(s): Sophie Green
  • Location(s): The Gold Coast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In a seaside suburb on Australia’s golden coast, four women head to the water to swim every day . . . Housewife Theresa wants to get fit; she also wants a few precious minutes to herself. So at sunrise...

Those Hamilton Sisters

Those Hamilton Sisters
  • Author(s): Averil Kenny
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

A warm, captivating and irresistible story of love, family, secrets and finding your place in the world. For readers of Lucinda Riley and Kate Morton. The Sunday train which snaked into Noah Vale that verdant, midwinter afternoon brought with...

Under The Golden Sun

Under The Golden Sun
  • Author(s): Jenny Ashcroft
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

Wanted: companion to escort a young, orphaned child home to Australia. All expenses as well as passage covered. Interested parties to apply without delay to 32 Williams Street, Belgravia. London, 1941. There are so many reasons Rose Hamilton she...

The Forgotten Garden

The Forgotten Garden
  • Author(s): Kate Morton
  • Location(s): Brisbane, Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1913-2005

A well crafted and multi layered novel – it spans three generations and almost a whole century, going back and forth over time as Nell’s abandonment is explored.From the wilds of Cornwall, the slums of London, to the suburbs...

An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb

An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb
  • Author(s): Louise Wolhuter
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Jessie Else disappeared the summer the Lambs came to Magpie Beach. Not that the two events were connected at all, in reality; only in my own head, in my own world. They marked for me the end of a...

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...

The Girls of Lake Evelyn

The Girls of Lake Evelyn
  • Author(s): Averil Kenny
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1958

1958. When It-girl Vivienne George flees on the eve of her wedding she seeks refuge in a scheduled lodge surrounded by the lush rainforest of tropical North Queensland. There, she is relieved to find that the small farming town...

The Heirloom

The Heirloom
  • Author(s): Julie Brooks
  • Location(s): Brisbane, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 2024 / 1821

A surprise inheritance. A hidden past. Brisbane, 2024 Barista and budding artist Mia Curtis is shocked to receive a package all the way from England informing her she’s the heir to her late grandmother’s cottage. Feeling lost in her...

The Reef

The Reef
  • Author(s): Di Morrissey
  • Location(s): Great Barrier Reef
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Beneath the calm aqua waters of the Great Barrier Reef, there is an ongoing war for survival. It is a war among the creatures, the life forms and the coral that make up the reef. It is so threatened...

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