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Blogs in January 1970

Sarah Thornhill 1st January 1970

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...

A Handyman’s Best Tool 1st January 1970

What’s a girl to do when a sexy builder offers to be her tutor.in the bedroom? Three times dumped for not being adventurous in bed, Beth-Ann Harris is ripe for a steamy affair. Particularly when the man in question...

The Thorn Birds 1st January 1970

One of the most beloved novels of all time, Colleen McCullough’s magnificent saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian outback has enthralled readers the world over. The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three...

Tracks 1st January 1970

‘I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there’s no going back.’ So begins Robyn Davidson’s perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea...

The Light between Oceans 1st January 1970

The story takes place in Southern Australia, just after the First World War. Tom Sherbourne is a lighthouse keeper on a remote island way off the mainland. One shore leave he marries a local girl, Izzie, and she comes...