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Red Heaven

By Nicolas Rothwell - Published 2021

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Literary

Winner of the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for his novel Quicksilver, Nicolas Rothwell’s Red Heaven is a nostalgic meditation on ...Read Review

The Tulip Tree

By Suzanne McCourt -

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Saga

The Tulip Tree is a complex family saga, taking readers through a volatile sweep of time in an ever-changing Poland from 1920 to 1954: a ...Read Review

When the Sky Fell Apart

By Caroline Lea - Published 2016

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The Channel Islands were one of the more peaceful places to spend the Second World War. They were occupied by the Germans in ...Read Review

The Shadow Land

By Elizabeth Kostova - Published 2017

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Literary

Kostova’s third novel (after The Historian and The Swan Thieves) is a road trip adventure mixed with mystery, literary fiction, and a ...Read Review

The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish

By Tim Flannery - Published 2014Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

This novel is a silly romp through the Australian Museum collection in 1932. Archie Meeks returns home to his fiancée, Beatrice, after five ...Read Review

The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka

By Clare Wright - Published 2013

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Nonfiction

The Battle of the Eureka Stockade is a legendary milestone, the birth of Australian democracy. It took place on 3rd December 1854 in gold-rush ...Read Review

Nine Days

By Toni Jordan - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

This is not a historical novel in the conventional sense but a narrative consisting of nine vignettes, each taking place over the course ...Read Review

Sarah Thornhill

By Kate Grenville - Published 2011

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LiterarySaga

Sarah Thornhill is the sequel to Kate Grenville’s award-winning novel, The Secret River, which was set during the early years of the 19...Read Review