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The Sun In Her Eyes

The Sun In Her Eyes
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Amber was three when a car crash stole her mother’s life. She doesn’t remember the accident, but a stranger at the scene has been unable to forget. Now, almost thirty years later, she’s trying to track Amber down. Amber,...

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...

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...

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...

Volcano Street

Volcano Street
  • Author(s): David Rain
  • Location(s): South Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Centuy

In the tradition of great Australian literature Volcano Street is a wonderfully vivid portrayal of small-town life and the uncertainties of childhood. ‘What would Germaine do?’ This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they...

The Summer Party

The Summer Party
  • Author(s): Rebecca Heath
  • Location(s): Yorke Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000 / 2019

An atmospheric psychological thriller about a glamorous family living on the coast of southern Australia. 2023’s most addictive beach read. A perfect family. A devastating secret. Summer, 2000. In the tranquil town of Queen’s Point in southern Australia, the...

The Wedding Party

The Wedding Party
  • Author(s): Rebecca Heath
  • Location(s): South Australia
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three families united by a terrible event must survive a deadly wedding in this latest gripping thriller from Rebecca Heath, author ofThe Summer Partyand The Dinner Party! A group of old friends. A grieving mother. A lying bride. Adele...

A Matter of Love and Death

A Matter of Love and Death
  • Author(s): Caron Albright
  • Location(s): Adelaide
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1931, Jazz Age, Great Depression

Adelaide, 1931. Telephone switchboard operator Frances’ life is difficult as sole provider for her mother and adopted uncle. But it’s thrown into turmoil when she overhears a suspicious conversation on the phone, planning a murder. If a life is...

Bitter Wash Road

Bitter Wash Road
  • Author(s): Garry Disher
  • Location(s): South Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Hirsch heads up Bitter Wash Road in rural South Australia to investigate reports of gunfire, he finds himself cut off without back-up. A pair of thrill killers has been targeting isolated farmhouses on lonely backroads, but Hirsch’s first...

Day’s End

Day’s End
  • Author(s): Garry Disher
  • Location(s): South Australia
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WHEN HATE RUNS DEEP, THE INNOCENT SUFFER Constable Paul Hirschausen’s rural beat in the low hills of South Australia is wide. Daybreak to day’s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties, from...

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