Author has a personal connection to the WA wreck of the Alkimos, as the stories he recounts make clear.
Australian fiction
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Author:KRAKOUER, RaySummary: - Author:EGAN, TedSummary:
Presents a selection of Ted Egan's hilarious, very true tales. This is classic, down-to-earth humour.
- Author:MCKINLEY, TamaraSummary:
Claire can't wait to escape the harshness of ranching life for college and a career in the big city. And Sydney in the 1960's seems much more exciting than Warratah Cattle Station.
- Author:MORRISSEY, DiSummary:
A young Australian woman leaves Sydney for a new world...Guyana, South America. Captivated by the wild, unspoilt beauty, Madison Wright joins the native Amerindians struggling to preserve their culture against corporate exploitation....
- Author:SHAW, PatriciaSummary:
The Hamilton and Oatley families are the owners of massive cattle stations in the Northern Territory. As the annual rains approach, the outback families prepare to leave for coastal Darwin.
- Author:LANG, TahitaSummary:
Young French widow, Claudette Arneau, arrives at a million acre cattle station in the Kimberley. Can she survive?
- Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:
Tilly Trotter, unwed and 5 months pregnant when Mark Sopwith died, crossed the world to a strange new land and the perils that awaited her there.
- Author:PRICE, ColinSummary:
Fictional account of pioneering life in the Swan Valley.
- Author:LONG, William StuartSummary:
It is 1807 and Captain Bligh battles the corrupt N.S.W. Corps in lawless Sydney Town. In the midst of this turmoil, 16-year-old Abigail Tempest and her sister Lucy arrive on the Indiaman "Mysore" from England. Sequel to "...
- Author:Jacobs, AnnaSummary:
Ismay Deagan has one wish in the world - to leave Ireland and join her brother, Bram, in Australia. However, her father has other ideas and orders her to marry their vicious neighbour Rory Flynn. But after Rory brutally attacks her...
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Author:MCCULLOUGH, ColleenSummary:Colleen McCullough's 'The Thorn Birds' is the dramatic and colourful family saga of outback Australia and one of the best-selling novels of all time and a popular television mini-series. Spanning three generations of the...
- Author:Awad, AmalSummary:
In the cafe, I watch as a woman takes a photo of her plate - an impressive, glossy lime-coloured dessert with shards of chocolate perched on top. I want to feel that ease and confidence, too. Like this is my city again, and I know my...
- Author:CLEARY, JonSummary:
The Carmodys travel the Australian outback, Paddy taking casual shearing or droving jobs but Ida and young Sean long to settle down.
- Author:MORRISSEY, DiSummary:
In Melbourne, a young woman abandons her baby girl, wrapped in a shawl. The only clue to the baby's origin is the shawl's motif which links her to an ancient rock painting in the Kimberley of WA.
- Author:McDonald, FleurSummary:
A riveting new novel of rural suspense from the bestselling Voice of the Outback. 1980: Rose and Ian Kelly arrive in the small South Australian town of Barker for supplies, before driving a further couple of hundred kilometres to begin...
- Author:LONG, William StuartSummary:
Now pardoned, with a land grant, beautiful Jenny Taggart struggles to make a new life for herself and her young son in N.S.W. Torn by betrayal and loss, and inflamed by love, she is sustained by her dream of better things to come....
- Author:Simsion, GraemeSummary:
Don and Rosie are back in Melbourne after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important project. Their son, Hudson, is having trouble at school: his teachers say he isn't fitting in with the other kids. Meanwhile...
- Author:PRICHARD, Katharine SusannahSummary:
This is a story of the goldfields of Western Australia. Not only of the gold industry as it was, but also the lives of many of the people involved.
- Author:Sivendra, BrookeSummary:
Deacon Thomas is facing his past and fighting for his future—for another chance at happiness. But when a dark secret emerges, one that shatters Marianne's world, he will be forced to make a decision that will forever change his life....
- Author:Sivendra, BrookeSummary:
They say time heals all wounds, but that's a lie. . . Seven years ago, Deacon Thomas's girlfriend was brutally murdered. Every single day, he lives with the crushing truth—they killed her to get to him. Time hasn't healed...
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