Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text...
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Author:Boochani, BehrouzSummary: -
Author:SHEPHERD, JanineSummary:Janine Shepherd’s story reads like the plot of a Hollywood movie. A champion cross-country skier in training for the Winter Olympics, her life was irrevocably altered during a bike ride to the Blue Mountains when she was hit...
- Author:Fox, Candice, Patterson, JamesSummary:
When Sydney police department sex crimes detective Harriet Blue learns that her brother is suspected in the murders of three women, she is shocked. To make things worse, she is transferred to Perth to investigate a missing outback mine...
- Author:French, JackieSummary:
The year is 1788, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. Seen through the eyes of the colony's only surgeon and Nanberry, the Aboriginal boy adopted by Surgeon White who finds himself...
- Author:Haigh, GideonSummary:
‘[An] unconventional journey…brilliantly documented.’ Courier Mail
‘So you want to know something about this funny old bowling of mine. Well, there’s nothing to it. It’s really very simple—in fact, at times, I do not know much...
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Author:Shepherd, JanineSummary:In 1986, champion cross-country skier Janine Shepherd was training for the Winter Olympics when she was hit by a truck and suffered life-threatening injuries. Janine was told that she would never walk again, a story recounted in her...
- Author:Carey, PeterSummary:
Chistopher Chubb, an arrogant poet in 1950's Australia, creates a fictitious poet. Only the phantom poet comes to life to taunt, haunt and otherwise destroy his maker, pursuing Chubb from Melbourne to a seedy, sweaty, bitter ending in...
- Author:Crime Writers Queensland AuthorsSummary:
From crimes of passion to corporate piracy ... from pre- Fitzgerald corruption to the underbelly of today's drug culture ... 12 of Brisbane's most wanted crime writers explore the darker side of Australia's hottest big...
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Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:When the 1920s’ most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing...
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Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:It’s Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being held at Werribee Manor house and grounds by the Golden Twins: Isabella and Gerald Templar. She knew them in Paris, where they...
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Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:Always enticing in divine 20s fashion, Phryne, one of the most exciting and likeable heroines in crime writing today, leads us through a tightly plotted maze of thrilling adventure set in 1920s Australia. The divine Phryne Fisher...
- Author:Corrigan, FlorenceSummary:
A story of hardship and heartache in the rough Pilbara outback. An inspiring memoir from Florence Corrigan, who spent her childhood in bough shelters and makeshift camps, looking after her younger siblings, while her parents eked out a...
- Author:Gallagher, HarrySummary:
As a child of the Depression in Sydney's inner west, Harry Gallagher learnt life the hard way. The resourcefulness and determination Harry gained were to stand him in good stead, when his swimmers, Jon Henricks, Dawn Fraser and...
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Author:Fitzsimons, PeterSummary:Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia,...
- Author:Fordham, JudithSummary:
The true story of Judith Fordham's journey through the legal system to become a successful barrister and Associate Professor of Forensic Science at Murdoch University.
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Author:Jacobs, AnnaSummary:When a skilled accountant like Meriel falls for a financially impractical landscape artist, things don't always run smoothly. After her grandpop dies, Meriel emigrates to Australia where fate brings her into contact with Ben....
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Author:ANTHONY, Hubert LawrenceSummary:"An extraordinary insight into the war experiences of a very young man, and the relationship between a son and his mother, during the horrors of Galipoli and its aftermath ... Sapper Hubert Anthony was seventeen when he enlisted in...
- Author:Kember, LorraineSummary:
Mesothelioma was the furthest thing from Brian Kember's mind when at the age of fifty two he began to experience shortness of breath. Exposed to Asbestos as a child living with his parents in the asbestos mining town of Wittenoom...
- Author:Althaus, Catherine, O'Faircheallaigh, CiaranSummary:
Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services. Today, there are thousands of Indigenous public servants in these countries, and hundreds in senior...
- Author:Pirk, WendySummary:
What comes from the land down under? mania, that's Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania! There are so many unique species of animals, insects and plants on these islands! You will be amazed!
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