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Author
Series
Publisher
Black Swan
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When Jane decides to move to the Australian outback in search of a husband, her sister Anthea thinks she's mad. But then again, the sisters have never seen eye-to-eye. Anthea is slim, beautiful and has a perfect life and fianc. Jane has always felt like the ugly duckling in comparison. But when Anthea follows her sister Down Under to try and save Jane from this latest crazy plan, she ends up taking a walk on the wild side herself.
3) The lost man
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle farms under the relenting sun of the remote outback. In an isolated part of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbour, their homes three hours' drive apart. They are at the stockman's grave, a landmark so old that no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their middle brother, Cameron, who lies dead at their...
4) Jasper Jones
Author
Publisher
Windmill
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Late on a hot summer night, Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 13, is startled by a knock on his window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie agrees - despite his misgivings.
Author
Publisher
Jo Fletcher Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Past, present, and future collide in E.J. Swift's 'The Coral Bones', as three women battle against ecological disaster in three different eras. Here is a powerful elegy to the disappearing world of Australia's unique and fascinating ecosystem, a novel of intertwining stories for the climate change era - and a vision of a more hopeful future.
Author
Publisher
Sceptre
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Expelled from the archdiocese of Sydney as a young priest for his outspoken views on the Vietnam War, Father Frank Docherty returns to Australia in 1996 to speak at a conference on paedophilia within the Catholic Church. He had hoped to spend time with his mother and old friends. Instead, he finds himself caught up in the cases of two people who claim to have been sexually abused by an eminent Sydney cleric - one the son of Docherty's former parishioner,...
7) Liar liar
Author
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Detective Harriet Blue is clear about two things. Regan Banks deserves to die. And she'll be the one to pull the trigger. But Regan - the Georges River Killer and the man responsible for destroying her brother's life - has gone to ground. And now Harriet needs to disappear too - before her colleagues stop her carrying out an act that could end her career, her freedom, even her life. Suddenly, her phone rings. It's him. Regan. And he wants to play...
8) Hush hush
Author
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Harriet Blue used to be a detective. Now she's inmate 3329. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop - as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her two-year-old child have gone missing. He's ready to offer Harriet a deal:...
Author
Publisher
Fremantle Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Set in the outback of Western Australia, this novel centers around the disappearance of Kuj, an eight-year-old girl,�during a bitter custody battle. Annie, an anthropology graduate newly arrived from the city, is increasingly distracted from her work by the mysterious event. As Annie searches for the truth beneath the township?s wild speculations, she find herself increasingly drawn towards Mick Hooper, a muscly, laid-back Australian man with secrets...
Author
Publisher
Sceptre
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a New South Wales farming community lies a camp housing Italian, Korean and Japanese prisoners of war. For their guards and the locals, many with loved ones away at war, captive or dead, it is hard to know how to treat them - with disdain or compassion? Alice, a young woman leading a dull life on her father-in-law's farm, is one of those with a husband held prisoner in Europe. When an Italian POW and anarchist is assigned to work on...
11) Bettany's book
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This novel provides a portrait of the white origins of Australia, and of two adventurous, sprirted young women, one hundred and fifty years apart. Keneally's previous novels include 'Blood Red,' 'Sister Rose,' 'Confederates' and 'A River Town.'
Author
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Charlie and Nao are strangers from different sides of the tracks. They should never have met, but one devastating incident binds them together forever. A man is dead and now they are unwilling accomplices in his murder there's only one thing to do: hit the road in the victim's twin cab ute, with a bag of stolen gold stashed under the passenger seat. Suddenly outlaws, Nao and Charlie must make their way across Australia's remote outback using only...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES) AND YAEL STONE (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK). Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling ... St Valentine's Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return ... An Australian classic, the disappearance of...
14) Khaki town
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Khaki Town, Judy Nunn's exciting new novel, is inspired by a true wartime story that has remained a well-kept secret for over seventy years. It seems to have happened overnight, Val thought . How extraordinary. We've become a khaki town. It's March 1942. Singapore has fallen. Darwin has been bombed. Australia is on the brink of being invaded by the Imperial Japanese Forces. And Val Callahan, publican of The Brown's Bar in Townsville, could not be...
15) Dead Man's Creek
Author
Publisher
Wildfire
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Newly-minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her hometown, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder - a 'file and forget'. But this is no ordinary cold case, her arrival provoking an unwelcome and threatening response from the small-town community. As more bodies are discovered, and she begins to question how well she truly knows those closest to her, Nell realises that finding the truth could prove more difficult - and dangerous...
Author
Series
The Temeraire volume 6
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Laurence and Temeraire have been banished from the country they?ve fought so hard to protect - and the friends they have made in the British Aerial Corps. Found guilty of treason, man and dragon have been deported to Australia to start a new life and many new adventures.
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
New pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Cassandra Blake has raised her three motherless sisters. The girls are the pride of their father, and not in a hurry to marry. Then the American Civil War cuts off supplies of cotton to Lancashire, the mills fall silent and there is no work. There is a stark choice, stay and risk starvation or pack up and begin again elsewhere.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1788. 21-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her the earth one midsummer's night, she believes him. But Elizabeth soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Her new husband is reckless, tormented, driven by some dark rage at the world. He tells her he is to take up a position as Lieutenant in a New South Wales penal colony...
19) Command
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Thrilled at his first command, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness - he is desperately needed to defend Malta against Barbary corsairs, ferocious privateers and the French who are trying to rescue the remnants of their army in the Levant. But his jubilation doesn't last long.
20) Mara's choice
Author
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a child, her world is turned upside down. Aaron Buchanan only discovered that he had a daughter a couple of years ago and now he's desperate to play a part in her life. In the face of her mother's opposition, Mara arranges to meet her father and his family. In a breath-taking corner of the world, amid a waterfront community on Australia's west coast, will...
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