Reader's Feast - Australian Fiction

Too Close to Home
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Georgia Blain

Freya's inner city life is the envy of many and a source of happiness and disquiet for her; the disquiet coming from a pattern of predictability that seems to permeate her days. When Shane, a man who was friends with Freya's partner Matt years before, moves in around the corner, Freya will come to learn that nothing is as predictable as it appears.

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Love in the Years of Lunacy
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Mandy Sayer

Sydney during WWII is both an exciting and dangerous place. Pearl, an 18 year-old musician, falls in love with a black American GI but when he is sent to New Guinea, their illicit affair is something Pearl is unwilling to give up.

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The Roving Party
Price: AUD 27.99 Author: Rohan Wilson

This award-winning novel is set in 1800s Tasmania. The 'roving party' of the title is a group of four men charged with finding and subduing local Aborigines; subduing being a euphemism for slaughter. The party includes convicts, black trackers and John Batman, a man intent on his task.

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The Precipice
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Virginia Duigan

Living alone in the Blue Mountains, Thea Farmer had thought she had her future planned out, a future that would distance her from a troubled past as a school principal caught up in scandal. However, looming financial ruin means she must swap her home for a rundown cottage. The couple who buy her house will become prey to her obsessive and ever increasing paranoia.

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The Amateur Science of Love
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Craig Sherborne

Travelling to London from his home on a farm in New Zealand, Colin hopes to find a way into acting but instead, finds himself captivated by a woman who is an artist and older than himself. They travel across the world together, making their home in a country town outside Melbourne. Despite the travelling Colin has done, he is unfamiliar with the landscape that is the human heart.

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Past the Shallows
Price: AUD 26.99 Author: Favel Parrett

The wild coast of Tasmania is an unforgiving landscape, one that mirrors the life of young Harry, the son of a widowed fisherman. His father seems to centre all his despair and hurt on the young boy. Even with the protection of his older brothers, neither father nor son can escape the consequences of long-held secrets.

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The Lightkeeper's Wife
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Karen Viggers

Elderly Mary has lived in Hobart for many years but the appearance of a letter from someone from her past prompts her to return to Bruny Island where she and her husband spent a lot of their marriage. The letter contains a secret from her past that Mary had hoped never to reveal to her family. Once it is known, it subsequently sets off a series of events that cause grief and upheaval to Mary and all those she loves.

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Flock
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Lyn Hughes

Flock is the fourth novel from acclaimed author Lyn Hughes. This seductive story roams freely between the French Revolution, Victorian England and the Blue Mountains as it explores the nature of love, family and the joys and challenges of living a creative life.

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Five Bells
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Gail Jones

The iconic Circular Quay, Sydney, is the stunning backdrop for Gail Jones' latest novel. The story follows four characters who, on a sunny Sydney day, converge on the Quay to mix with the locals and tourists. They, of course, have no expectation of anything unusual happening. All total strangers, they become inextricably linked by a young girl who transforms their lives.

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