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Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)

by Kerry Greenwood

This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back. The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher--she of the green-grey eyes, diamant garters and outfits that should not be sprung... (more)

The Turning: Stories

by Tim Winton

Set on a coastal stretch of Western Australia, Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds -- changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolves made or broken. Brothers cease speaking to each other, husbands abandon wives and children, grown men are haunted by childhood fears. People struggle against the weight of their own history... (more)

The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

by Kate Morton

A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to... (more)

Leave No Trace

by Hannah Nyala

Longitude: 132° Latitude: 19° Date: December 7 Temp: 121° Fahrenheit, 10 A.M. Paul's been gone now for eight days. He was only supposed to be gone for the afternoon, off to the airport to pick up Josie. But he didn't come back. They didn't come back. Not that day. Not in the seven that came after. And now I'm quickly running out of food and water. I must leave our camp. I must find them. I must... (more)

Red Dog

by Louis De Bernieres

In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never-ending bush. I imagine that Mars must have a similar feel... (more)

Crystal Woman: The Sisters of the Dreamtime

Crystal Woman: The Sisters of the Dreamtime

by David Tamura, Lyn Andrews

Lynn Andrews, bestselling author of Star Woman and Jaguar Woman, continues her "chronicle of the spirit" with an extraordinary journey to th e wilderness of Central Australia, where she discovers the power of crystals.

Helen And Desire ("Rebel Inc")

by Alexander Trocchi

New edition of Trocchi's greatest erotic novel, starring the irrepressible Helen. A subversive, equivocal and deeply suggestive masterpiece. Includes a new introduction by Eddie Morgan.

The Diamond Tiger (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

The Diamond Tiger (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

by Ann Maxwell

A Priceless Fortune Is Here For the Taking. But Is It Worth the Risks? Erin Shane Windsor is left a legendary diamond mine in western Australia by a great-uncle she never even knew she had. But the old man took the secret of the mine's location to his grave. All he left behind were cryptic clues written in verse -- and some very dangerous enemies who'd like nothing better than to claim the mine themselves. To... (more)

Dead Heat

by Caroline Carver

From the critically acclaimed author of "Blood Junction" and the winner of the Crime Writers' Association's New Writers Award, "Dead Heat" is a fast and terrifying journey into the heart of one of the wildest places on earth--the harsh, exotic Australian wilderness.

The Spare Room

by Helen Garner

A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women—one dying, the other called to care for her—from an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author How much of ourselves must we give up to help a friend in need? Helen has little idea what lies ahead—and what strength she must muster—when she offers her spare room to an old friend, Nicola, who has arrived in the city for cancer... (more)

Without a Backward Glance

by Kate Veitch

A new voice in the tradition of Anne Tyler and Anita Shreve Christmas Eve 1967: the night the lives of the McDonald children, Deborah, Robert, James, and Meredith, changed forever. Th eir mother, Rosemarie, told them she was running out to buy more lights for the tree. Instead, she boarded a plane bound for London, leaving the children with their father and the gnawing question: Why did their mother abandon... (more)

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