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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The FitzOsbornes in exile The FitzOsbornes in exile Michelle Cooper,Michelle Cooper In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social… OL15998728W
Nine Days Nine Days Toni Jordan Contemporary fiction. The tiniest things-a coin, a pendant, a photograph, a lie-can make or ruin lives. It is 1939. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond Kip Westaway, failed scholar… OL16795338W
Before The Fall Before The Fall Aaron J. Clarke ‘Before the Fall’ is a retelling of Henry James’ ‘The Golden Bowl’, but with a twist as it involves the gay lovers, Marty Townsend and Carlton Aspern, seducing and manipulating the widowed Australian… OL16812671W
Three Summers Three Summers Judith Clarke This is a magnificent and deeply moving story about two girls, a life-long friendship, and the heart's search for the real true thing. A careful, gentle, deeply passionate novel about how a young lov… OL17874946W
The great deception The great deception Joy Chambers New South Wales, 1947. When Shelly Wareing's husband Cole vanishes into the night, leaving only a note to say that he will come back no matter how long it takes, Shelly is bewildered. What could be t… OL17910098W
Mystery of a Handsom Cab Mystery of a Handsom Cab Fergus Hume 254 pages ; 22 cm OL1798912W
The Natural Way of Things The Natural Way of Things Charlotte Wood "Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to… OL19632159W
Uncertain Grace Uncertain Grace Krissy Kneen 241 pages ; 24 cm OL20544901W
Paper daisies Paper daisies Kim Kelly As 1900 draws to a close, Berylda Jones, having completed her university exams for entry to medicine is heading home to Bathurst for Christmas. Tragically, 'home' is where she and her beloved sister … OL20878973W
Hitler's daughter Hitler's daughter Jackie French The bombs were falling and the smoke rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber and the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold. Was… OL22089746W
Merciless Gods Merciless Gods Christos Tsiolkas Contemporary fiction. Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and revelation. This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed bestselling international writer Chris… OL23418478W
The Echo of Others The Echo of Others S.D. Rowell vii, 325 pages ; 20 cm OL24379813W
Missing you, love Sara Missing you, love Sara Jackie French "At 11.35 a.m., Thursday, May 4th, Sara's sister Reenie disappears. Was she kidnapped? Did she kill herself? Did she simply decide to vanish? Or is her body lying somewhere waiting to be found? This … OL24640720W
Only a Monster Only a Monster Vanessa Len It should have been the perfect summer. Sent to stay with her late mother’s eccentric family in London, sixteen-year-old Joan is determined to enjoy herself. She loves her nerdy job at the historic H… OL24802404W
The breaking wave The breaking wave Nevil Shute This is the same book as *Requiem for a Wren*. Alan Duncan is a lawyer, recently called to the bar in England, returning home to his wealthy parents' prosperous sheep station (ranch) in Australia… OL2779789W
Street to street Street to street Brian Castro Brian Castro takes up the novella, the form favoured by David Malouf and Helen Garner, in his new work of fiction, based on the life of the early twentieth-century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan. Br… OL27966950W
Australian short fiction Australian short fiction Bennett, Bruce In this first extended study of Australian short fiction, Bruce Bennett adopts Christina Stead's metaphor of an ocean of story to suggest the universality of story-telling and the marks it leaves for… OL3801590W
The fifth season The fifth season Kerry B. Collison Historical novel on Indonesia's social and political upheaval, 1996-1998. OL945767W