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The Story Keeper (US) / The Midnight Estate (UK/Australia)

By Kelly Rimmer - Published 2026

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Fiona Winslow has years of experience in conservation architecture, and her newest project needs her help badly. In 2010, she’s just purchased the ...Read Review

Murder on North Terrace (A Petticoat Police Mystery: Book 2)

By Lainie Anderson - Published 2026

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Mystery/Crime

Adelaide, South Australia, 1917, and a dead body is discovered in the Art Gallery. Meanwhile, Woman Police Constable Kate Cocks and WPC Ethel Bromley ...Read Review

There Was Still Love

By Favel Parrett -

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LiterarySaga

The much anticipated There Was Still Love is Favel Parrett’s third novel. It continues her legacy of writing moving fiction in her ...Read Review

Frieda: A Novel of the Real Lady Chatterley

By Annabel Abbs - Published 2018

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Biographical Fiction

In her first novel, The Joyce Girl, Annabel Abbs explored life in the shadows of literary fame. In her second, we are again ...Read Review

The Desert Nurse

By Pamela Hart - Published 2018

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Although Evelyn Northey desperately wants to be a doctor, her father will not allow it, holding back her inheritance―which would enable her ...Read Review

The Botanist’s Daughter

By Kayte Nunn - Published 2018

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This is Australian author Kayte Nunn’s first historical novel. A love of botany inspired Nunn to write this multi-period novel set in ...Read Review

Lillian Armfield: How Australia’s First Female Detective Took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and Changed the Face of the Force

By Leigh Straw - Published 2018

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Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

In the 1920s, Sydney was in the midst of a brutal crime-wave known as “the Razor Wars”. Remarkably, the two principal rival players ...Read Review

The Secrets at Ocean’s Edge

By Kali Napier - Published 2018

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Set on the coast of Western Australia during the Great Depression years, this is the story of four members of a family dealing ...Read Review

See What I Have Done

By Sarah Schmidt - Published 2017

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Biographical FictionLiteraryMystery/Crime

Lizzie Borden’s acquittal for the murder of her father and stepmother has already generated numerous books, films and plays, even musicals. Whether ...Read Review

A Letter from Italy

By Pamela Hart - Published 2017

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Brindisi, 1917. Rebecca Quinn says farewell to Jack, her husband and fellow journalist, who is off on a secret investigation into Albanian smugglers. She ...Read Review