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Palace of Tears

By Julian Leatherdale - Published 2015

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Adam Fox is owner of the Palace, an exclusive resort hotel in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. In 1914, his only son ...Read Review

Betsy and the Emperor

By Anne Whitehead - Published 2015

Genres:

Nonfiction

The tagline on the Australian edition, “The true story of Napoleon, a pretty girl, a Regency rake and an Australian colonial misadventure”, puts ...Read Review

The Year It All Ended

By Kirsty Murray - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

November 1918, Melbourne, Australia. Tiney Flynn and her sisters are celebrating both Tiney’s 17th birthday and the end of the Great War. Soon, ...Read Review

I Was Only Nineteen

By Craig Smith (illus.) - By John Schumann - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult Military

This picture book tells its moving story in simple verses and beautiful water-colour illustrations. The text is composed of the words of a ...Read Review

Game

By Trevor Shearston - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Although he was the son of convicts transported from Great Britain to Australia, Ben Hall didn’t seem headed for a life of ...Read Review

Sheila

By Robert Wainwright - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

Sheila was born Sheila Chisholm, daughter of a wealthy Australian rancher, and came to England in 1913 to become successively Lady Loughborough, Lady Milbanke ...Read Review

Hannah & Emil

By Belinda Castles - Published 2013 Published c2012

Genres:

Saga

“Herr Becker, we must find you some shoes, and then supper,” says Hannah to Emil, while shaking his hand after being introduced at ...Read Review

The Burial

By Courtney Collins - Published 2013 Published 2014

Genres:

Literary Mystery/Crime

This is a strange book, not least because the narrator is a newborn baby who dies in the first chapter. This is Magical ...Read Review

Infamy

By Lenny Bartulin - Published 2013

Genres:

Adventure Literary

It’s 1830. William Burr is recovering from injuries after his latest skirmish chasing mahogany pirates in British Honduras when he receives a request ...Read Review