The Maloneys live in a small town in Australia. They are a fifth-generation struggling Australian family of Irish Catholic descent. A strong mother, father broken by war, three boys and two girls. Each of their lives is changed by the...
Australian fiction
- Author:COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
- Author:Lyn HughesSummary:
Francis Sprigge and Lilian Powys, two strangers escaping their past, move to the Blue Mountains together, following their dreams of creativity and love. But as Francis pursues his gift for designing exquisite wallpaper, Lilian finds...
- Author:Flanagan, RichardSummary:
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly...
- Author:Moss, TaraSummary:
Makedde Vanderwall is a psycho-magnet. A woman who has a habit of attracting the wrong kind of man. She's a single, Canadian, street-smart daughter of a cop, an alluring Venus who works in the lucrative world of modelling while...
- Author:Stringer, TriciaSummary:
1881. Joseph Baker works hard on his pastoral lease at Smith's Ridge, in the beautiful but harsh land of the Flinders Ranges. For Joseph this lease, lost to his family in the early days of settlement, offers a future for his young...
- Author:ANGEL, NicholasSummary:
With dreams of moving to a house by the sea haunting their every day, Milvern and his wife Michelle, owners of a riverside property in a small outback farming community, struggle with drought, friends, adversaries and the wrenchingly...
- Author:UPFIELD, ArthurSummary:
Inspector Bony and the men on a lonely sheep station await the drying up of a lake to reveal a murder.
- Author:Orr, WendySummary:
In Bronze-Age Crete, before horses were common on the island, potter's-daughter Clio continues to raise and train them even though an accident has left her unable to ride. After a series of difficult years in the community, the...
- Author:PRICHARD, Katharine SusannahSummary:
A story of aborigines, their living conditions, their relationship with white people, all set in the North West Australia but dealing primarily with the history of Coonardoo, the heroine.
- Author:Porteous, R. S.Summary:
Old Ben McReady from the Australian Outback has lived a full life and now aged more than 80 he relives it from his bed. It was a warm hearted and generous life... Cattle-duffing and living off the country at first, then WWI in Europe...
- Author:WEST, MorrisSummary:
Cassidy went after power and money and got them both. Cassidy's son-in-law is left with a legacy of mortal sins, dangerous intrigues and deadlier secrets, involving him in the seedy side of Australian politics and the underworld....
- Author:HERBERT, XavierSummary:
Xavier Herbert's famous saga of the Australian outback.
- Author:NILAND, D'ArcySummary:
The Southern Cross turns over, telling travellers under the vast Australian skies of the passing of the night and the coming of dawn. Barbie, a traveller, sees the hardship, laughter, suffering and joy.
- Author:Courtenay, BryceSummary:
Brother Fish is an inspiring human drama of three lives brought together and changed forever by the extraordinary events of recent history. Brother Fish is an Australian saga spanning eighty years and four continents. Inspired by real...
- Author:UPFIELD, ArthurSummary:
Detective Inspector Bonaparte investigates abduction and murder - and nearly gets marooned on Lake Eyre.
- Author:UPFIELD, ArthurSummary:
- Author:NUNN, JudySummary:
In 1788, Thomas Kendall, a naive 19-year-old sentenced to transportation for burglary, finds himself bound for Sydney Town in the penal colony of New South Wales. An honest man at heart, seizes a second chance at life beneath the...
- Author:MORRISSEY, DiSummary:
It's 1963 and Sally Mitchell, the well-bred daughter of a wealthy New Zealand sheep farmer, is on her way to England with her friend Pru. When the young women stop over in Sydney their plans go awry. Sally impulsively takes a job...
- Author:MCCULLOUGH, ColleenSummary:
In the mental ward of an Australian military hospital just after World war Two, nurse Honour Langtry cares intensely for the five men in her charge. A new arrival, a model soldier drawn to Honour, upsets the ward.
- Author:UPFIELD, ArthurSummary:
A member of literary clique is murdered, an unfamiliar setting for Boney to investigate.
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