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The FitzOsbornes in exile
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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… |
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Nine Days
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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… |
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Before The Fall
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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… |
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Three Summers
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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… |
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The great deception
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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… |
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Mystery of a Handsom Cab
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Fergus Hume |
254 pages ; 22 cm |
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The Natural Way of Things
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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… |
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Uncertain Grace
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Krissy Kneen |
241 pages ; 24 cm |
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Paper daisies
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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 … |
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Hitler's daughter
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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… |
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Merciless Gods
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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… |
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The Echo of Others
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S.D. Rowell |
vii, 325 pages ; 20 cm |
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Missing you, love Sara
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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 … |
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Only a Monster
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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… |
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The breaking wave
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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… |
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Street to street
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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… |
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Australian short fiction
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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… |
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The fifth season
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Kerry B. Collison |
Historical novel on Indonesia's social and political upheaval, 1996-1998. |
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