Author has a personal connection to the WA wreck of the Alkimos, as the stories he recounts make clear.
Australian fiction
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Author:KRAKOUER, RaySummary: - Author:EGAN, TedSummary:
Presents a selection of Ted Egan's hilarious, very true tales. This is classic, down-to-earth humour.
- Author:MCKINLEY, TamaraSummary:
Claire can't wait to escape the harshness of ranching life for college and a career in the big city. And Sydney in the 1960's seems much more exciting than Warratah Cattle Station.
- Author:MORRISSEY, DiSummary:
A young Australian woman leaves Sydney for a new world...Guyana, South America. Captivated by the wild, unspoilt beauty, Madison Wright joins the native Amerindians struggling to preserve their culture against corporate exploitation....
- Author:SHAW, PatriciaSummary:
The Hamilton and Oatley families are the owners of massive cattle stations in the Northern Territory. As the annual rains approach, the outback families prepare to leave for coastal Darwin.
- Author:LANG, TahitaSummary:
Young French widow, Claudette Arneau, arrives at a million acre cattle station in the Kimberley. Can she survive?
- Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:
Tilly Trotter, unwed and 5 months pregnant when Mark Sopwith died, crossed the world to a strange new land and the perils that awaited her there.
- Author:PRICE, ColinSummary:
Fictional account of pioneering life in the Swan Valley.
- Author:LONG, William StuartSummary:
It is 1807 and Captain Bligh battles the corrupt N.S.W. Corps in lawless Sydney Town. In the midst of this turmoil, 16-year-old Abigail Tempest and her sister Lucy arrive on the Indiaman "Mysore" from England. Sequel to "...
- Author:Jacobs, AnnaSummary:
Ismay Deagan has one wish in the world - to leave Ireland and join her brother, Bram, in Australia. However, her father has other ideas and orders her to marry their vicious neighbour Rory Flynn. But after Rory brutally attacks her...
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Author:MCCULLOUGH, ColleenSummary:Colleen McCullough's 'The Thorn Birds' is the dramatic and colourful family saga of outback Australia and one of the best-selling novels of all time and a popular television mini-series. Spanning three generations of the...
- Author:CLEARY, JonSummary:
The Carmodys travel the Australian outback, Paddy taking casual shearing or droving jobs but Ida and young Sean long to settle down.
- Author:MORRISSEY, DiSummary:
In Melbourne, a young woman abandons her baby girl, wrapped in a shawl. The only clue to the baby's origin is the shawl's motif which links her to an ancient rock painting in the Kimberley of WA.
- Author:LONG, William StuartSummary:
Now pardoned, with a land grant, beautiful Jenny Taggart struggles to make a new life for herself and her young son in N.S.W. Torn by betrayal and loss, and inflamed by love, she is sustained by her dream of better things to come....
- Author:PRICHARD, Katharine SusannahSummary:
This is a story of the goldfields of Western Australia. Not only of the gold industry as it was, but also the lives of many of the people involved.
- Author:GOLDSMITH, AndreaSummary:
Alice Lewin survived the war as a young child. After decades of burying her past she decides to visit the Kindertransport archive, where she learns of the existence of a possible relative, Henry Lewin. She travels to Australia to hear...
- Author:KENEALLY, ThomasSummary:
The true story of an officer from the First Fleet and his production of "The Recruiting Officers" - Australia's first theatrical venture. But this is only part of an enthralling story of this time.
- Author:Morrissey, DiSummary:
Three women, facing uncertain futures, form an unlikely friendship in Australia's remote opal fields. Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she made many...
- Author:Ringland, HollySummary:
An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us - and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home...
- Author:IRVINE, IanSummary:
The world's climate is in chaos. Rising seas have flooded out half a billion people. Hundreds of millions of refugees are pouring into the west, the global economy is collapsing and democracies are being crushed by the anti-...
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