Bianca Bernini did not foresee she would inspire her own murder when she boarded the legendary Ghan for the two day train trip from Sydney to Alice Springs. Note: this description in in error. The Ghan travels from Adelaide in South...
Australia --Fiction
- Author:DARCY, EmmaSummary:
- Author:Marsden, JohnSummary:
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.
- Author:Forrestal, ElaineSummary:
Bryn and his family have just moved to a new house by the lake. The area is beautiful, teeming with wildlife. But soon there are scars on the landscape where the houses are being built - bulldozers tear at the earth, the sound of...
- Author:SCHOLES, KatherineSummary:
One stormy night at her grandfather's place on the windswept coast, Annie enters a boathouse occupied by injured seabirds and finds herself able to understand their speech.
- Author:Marsden, JohnSummary:
Six determined Australian teenagers try to find their missing friends while continuing to resist the enemies who have invaded their country.
- Author:Furphy, JosephSummary:
First published in 1903, this book is an Australian classic whose stature has grown with the years, whose intricacies and strength have been the subject of endless discussions and literary essays. 'Tom Collins' (who was Joseph...
- Author:THIELE, ColinSummary:
The story of a boy and his love for his pelican friend.
- Author:COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
Story of two families - branches of the Solomons - transported to an alien land, both of whom grow rich and powerful but never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other.
- Author:Courtenay, BryceSummary:
Based on the real life of a remarkable young woman at the beginning of the last century, this is the gripping, heart-wrenching story of Jessica and her courageous fight for justice and love against enormous odds. Born into a life of...
- Author:MCKINLEY, TamaraSummary:
Jacaranda Vines had been one of the wealthiest corporations in Australia. But now Joseph Witney, the tyrannical head of the family, is dead. His widow is determined not to sell. But the younger generations of Witneys seem tempted by...
- Author:COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
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...
- Author:MCINERNEY, MonicaSummary:
When her foster sister Lara disappears, Harriet Turner has to step in and lead a party of elderly tourists on a theme tour of Devon and Cornwall centered around an almost-forgotten English TV detective show Willoughby.
- 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:FERRARS, ElizabethSummary:
Arriving in Australia to meet her brother, Rachel finds he has disappeared. She soon realises her own life is in danger and, alone in a new land, she relies on the help of a handsome young doctor.
- Author:JINKS, CatherineSummary:
Avril and Stephen run a guesthouse. A battle begins when Stephen decides to run for mayor. Avril sets out to undermine his campaigning and he retaliates.
- Author:Paterson, A. B.Summary:
An Outback Marriage tells of a young Englishman on a tour of the colonies, who gets more than he bargained for when he sets out to find the heir to a fortune. This is the story not of one marriage but several, bringing the whole of...
- Author:MURRAY, ChristopherSummary:
Part detective story, part fable. About the power shifts in old rural communities as they are invaded by developers and turned into upmarket weekenders.