Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 2 Crime
He's guarding a deep secret ... But so is she. A stunning new thriller about the burden of shame from blockbuster author Sara Foster Lizzie Burdett was eighteen when she vanished, and Noah Carruso has never forgotten her. She was his first crush, his unrequited love. She was also his brother's gir ...Show more
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 2 Crime
How far would your government go? A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East and the UN. Daesh has a thoroughfare to the sea and China is Australia's newest ally. When a bomb goes off in remote Tasmania, Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcomin ...Show more
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents a p ...Show more
Category: Australian author
Ava has just landed a job as a reporter in Gubinge, a tiny tropical town in Australia's north.Gubinge has a way of getting under the skin. Ava is hooked on the thrill of going hand-to-hand with barramundi, awed by country, and stunned by pindan sunsets. But a bitter collision between a native title grou ...Show more
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The stunningly powerful new novel from the author of The Slap. 'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and violate men in front of their wives. The temple priests flay us openly i ...Show more
Category: Australian author
Kathy Lette: (author best known for her works 'Puberty Blues' & 'How To Kill Your Husband [And Other Handy Household Hints]', and friend of Bookoccino) "Trent Dalton’s raw, tender, original, riotous and rollicking tale about brother-love, resilience and a refusal to think that optimism is an ...Show more
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The remarkable new novel from a rising star of Australian fiction 'Snake Island takes you to the limits of human emotion. A vivid, consuming dive into family loyalty, violence, and the hearts broken when the two collide.' Candice Fox, bestselling author of Crimson Lake Vernon and Penelope Moore never ...Show more
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
RICHARD GLOVER REVIEWS: ''I love writers who break their own mould with each book. Charlotte’s last book, The Natural Way of Things, was darkly compelling; this has more sunshine plus wonderfully flawed characters in whom you may find reflections of yourself.'' People went on about death bringing ...Show more
Category: Australian author
Limited hardback gift edition of the bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of the 2019 Indie Book Award. 'Without exaggeration, the best Australian novel I have read in more than a decade' Sydney Morning Herald Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in ...Show more
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From Australia's favourite novelist and author of the Scarecrow series.'A vivid, elaborately constructed odyssey with plenty of twists and some beguiling Easter eggs for die-hard Reilly fans...an author with a profuse imagination' Sydney Morning Herald HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE FOUR KINGDOMS SCORNED. THE H ...Show more
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Anne and Joe have at long last found the sweet spot in their relationship - they have overcome conflict and difficulties and the challenges of growing towards old age together, and now appreciate each other's company, a great sex life, and are looking forward to what retirement brings. But inexplicably ...Show more
