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Fiction Titles: Authors J-M
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Author |
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Always East |
| by Michael Jacobson |
| Published by Hodder Headline |
In the crayfish village of Port Hammer, Sabbath Cullen has been raised
by a good man to be a good man. Lately, though, his vision for this little place
at the bottom of the world has become an obsession and his wife Hannah will suffer
for it. But so will he.
Always East confirms brilliantly the promise of Michael Jacobson's outstanding
debut novel Windmill Hill with a story of change, betrayal, love, home
and the wonder of being found. |
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Windmill Hill |
| by Michael Jacobson |
| Published by Hodder Headline |
| Windmill Hill is the heartwarming and beautifully written story of two
Australian men - an old man and his grandson - trying to make amends in the rugged
landscape of Western Tasmania. |
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Jack |
| by Judy Johnson |
| Published by Picador. Also available on audio by Bolinda Publishing. |
One-eyed Captain Jack Falconer is a man with many secrets. It's 1938, the eye of World War II, and a pearling lugger in the Torres Strait is the place he chooses to hide. But Jack's demons follow him out to sea and rise to the surface just as surely as the pearl shell his divers collect from the deep. Embittered, intelligent and self-destructive, Jack's only way to prove himself is to compete with, defeat and destroy the very weakness he fears. |
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| In her Mother's House |
Juliette Jameson |
Simon & Schuster |
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Versace Sisters |
| by Cate Kendall |
| Published by Random House |
From the backwaters of Tasmania to the sophisticated streets of Sydney, sisters Bellarene and Serandipity have come a long way. As international flight attendants the world was their oyster...until Sera fell in love and settled for family life. Gathering with their friends at Stitch 'n' Bitch is like therapy. There's a lot of talk and not much knitting - and they wouldn't have it any other way. |
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Gucci Mamas |
| by Cate Kendall |
| Published by Bantam Books. Also available on audio by Bolinda Publishing. |
Welcome to the world of the Gucci Mamas, where every day Mim has to negotiate the Carpark Mafia and the Mothers Superior as she drops her children off at the most prestigious school in Melbourne. But in between keeping up with the Joneses - or in
this case the Mason-Jacksons - cracks are starting to show in Mim's perfect life. Something's got to give, and it will take a catastrophic, life-changing event to bring Mim to her senses. But will it be too late? Wryly funny and sharply observed, Gucci Mamas will have you hooked from the first page. |
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The Tin Moon |
| by Stephen J Lacey |
| Published by Simon & Schuster. Also available on audio by Bolinda Publishing. |
| Jimmy Smith runs like the wind, sings like an angel and wears a gas mask
in his father's valiant. It is 1969 in the country village of Point Henry, where
Jimmy lives with his extended family. Neil Armstrong has landed on the moon, the
Vietnam War is raging across television sets, but Jimmy is more concerned with
matters closer to home...the 'city people' are coming, bringing their pole houses
and cul-de-sacs with them. The Tin Moon follows Jimmy as he tries to
make sense of parents, teachers, and hippies in his changing world. The Tin
Moon is a search for meaning, and the sacred spaces of childhood amidst the
shrinking fribro frontier. |
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Josephine and Me |
| by Brenda Little |
| Published by HarperCollins |
| Josephine and Emma had been friends for as long as they both could remember.
They were going to go everywhere and see everything. But sometimes life has its
own ideas... All it takes is one letter, and the situation for both young women
changes. Lifelong friendship is about to be tested. Can the ties that bound so
tightly stay intact? |
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| Dear Henry |
Brenda Little |
HarperCollins |
| Knowing Sophie |
Brenda Little |
HarperCollins |
| Beyond Duck River |
Angela Martin |
Hodder Headline |
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Splinter |
| by Michael MacConnell |
| Published by Hachette. |
A young boy has been found dead in the basement of his home. His parents are two of the biggest names in Hollywood. For this family there are no happy endings.
Special Agent Sarah Reilly has just been decorated for bringing down one of America’s worst serial killers. Refusing extended leave, she goes straight back to work in the Boston field office. But the murder of a child, Milo Kane, sees her transferred to LA to head up the FBI’s investigating task force. Within weeks, public sympathy for Milo’s parents splinters into suspicion, and the LA District Attorney rides the wave against them.
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Maelstrom |
| by Michael MacConnell |
| Published by Hachette. Also available on audio by Bolinda Publishing. |
Special Agent Sarah Riley is the daughter of an FBI legend. Her father made his reputation hunting down
one of America's worst serial killers. Now it's her turn. A monster is cruising the east coast. One who has stalked the United States for three decades, claiming countless victims. At the same time, someone is hunting down and eliminating serious killers with mechanical precision. With the serial killer's interest in Sarah growing, and the hunter drawing closer to his ultimate prey, time is running out. |
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Mermaid Cafe |
| by Andy Maconachie |
| Published by Hodder Headline |
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Twenty-year-old Wallace Newman is a fresh arrival in town, armed with an arts
grant and a desire to paint mermaids. He has left behind everything he knows in
the country, so when he checks in to Rafferty's Private Hotel on the beach and
a ramshackle cast of characters he quickly discovers that life is full of the
unexpected...and the search for 'true art' can lead you to the discovery of 'true
self'.
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Dead & Kicking |
| by Geoffrey McGeachin |
| Published by Penguin. |
A job as stills photographer and some top-notch nosh were too good reasons for Alby Murdoch to be in Saigon. The third was that he had to clear out of Sydney and the spy game for a while.But when Alby snaps a photo of the wrong passing cyclo, suddenly more action is taking place off camera than on. Alby is thrust into the murky, watch-your-back world of casino crime lords, bent politicians, rogue expats, killer fish and ruthless celebrity chefts. |
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Sensitive New Age Spy |
| by Geoffrey McGeachin |
| Published by Penguin. Also available on audio by Bolinda Publishing. |
All Alby wants is a decent coffee and a day off. But there's a hijacked tanker with a deadly cargo in Sydney Harbour, and bullets are flying on board a US Navy cruiser. Three sailors are dead and a Seahawk chopper is missing. Who's behind the mayhem? Why is the government intent on shutting down Alby's investigation? And can Alby trust Lieutenant Kingston, a weapons specialist with the longest legs he's ever seen on a sailor and not a tattoo anywhere on her stunning body? |
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D-E-D Dead! |
| by Geoffrey McGeachin |
| Published by Penguin |
| Also available as an audio book (Bolinda Publishing). |
| From the moment international photographer and special agent Alby Murdoch
drops his gun on a St Kilda tram he knows he's in for a bad day. Then his partner
Harry is gunned down in a coffee shop. By lunchtime, Alby realises someone wants
him dead. But all Alby wants is some pasta, a good bottle of wine and to figure
out the real story behind the mysterious Grace Goodluck -- oh, and who shot Harry
and why the answer seems to lie beyond razor wire at the top-secret US military
facility in the central Australian desert... |
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Fat, Fifty & F***ed |
| by Geoffrey McGeachin |
| Published by Penguin |
| Martin Carter is having a crook day. His home life's a misery, he's been
retrenched by the bank and everyone's forgotten his birthday. But a million-dollar
payroll, a pistol and a split-second decision change everything... and then there's
the intriguing Faith Chance, a new-age bikie gang and the legendary Great Aussie
Truck-stop Breakfast. |
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The Touch |
| by Colleen McCullough |
| Published by Random House |
| From the 1860s to the turn of the century, The Touch tells the
story of a man who flees Scotland to make his fortune in the goldfields of Australia
and America. When he sends one thousand pounds home for a bride, his cousin Elizabeth
is dispatched by sea, although it is her sister Jean whom he wanted. He marries
her and takes her home across the wild and barren countryside to his great house.
But is it remote enough to keep away the truth of his past and his lost love in
America? |
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| Heart of the Dreaming |
Di Morrissey |
Pan |
| The Last Rose of Summer |
Di Morrissey |
Pan |
| The Last Mile Home |
Di Morrissey |
Pan |
| Follow the Morning Star |
Di Morrissey |
Pan |
| Tears of the Moon |
Di Morrissey |
Pan |
| When the Singing Stops |
Di Morrissey |
Pan |
| The Songmaster |
Di Morrissey |
Pan |
| Scatter the Stars |
Di Morrissey |
Pan |
| The Dark Side |
Barry Morwood |
Saga Publications |
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The Forgotten Garden |
| by Kate Morton |
| Published by Allen & Unwin |
On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell O'Connor learns a secret that will change her life forever. On Nell's death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold---secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost. |
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The House at Riverton |
| by Kate Morton |
| UK edition of The Shifting Fog |
Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of
a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses,
sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter
1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by
a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories,
long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through
the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history had forgotten
but Grace never could. |
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The Shifting Fog |
| by Kate Morton |
| Published by Allen & Unwin. Also available on audio by Bolinda Publishing. |
Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of
a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses,
sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter
1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by
a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories,
long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through
the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history had forgotten
but Grace never could. Set as the war-shattered Edwardian summer surrenders to
the decadent twenties, The Shifting Fog is a thrilling mystery and a
compelling love story. |
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Hit |
| by Tara Moss |
| Published by HarperCollins. Also available on audio by Bolinda Publishing. |
She's street-smart, stunning and hoping to leave her troubled past behind
her - Mak is back in the new bestseller from the author of Covet. Makkede 'Mak'
Vanderwall has her PhD now and has started a new life in Australia with her detective
boyfriend, Andy Flynn. She has plans to set up her own forensic psychology practice,
but the money's tight so she takes part-time work with an infamous Sydney PI.
As she investigates the murder of A-list PA Meghan Wallace, using her knack for
investigation and bending the law, it seems Mak might just have stumbled on her
true calling...and the career choice that could finally bust up her relationship
once and for all. |
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Covet |
| by Tara Moss |
| Published by HarperCollins. Also available on audio by Bolinda Publishing. |
| 18 months after her ordeal at the hands of the sadistic 'Stiletto Murderer',
fashion model and forensic psychology student Makedde Vanderwall must confront
her demons when she returns for the trial. But just as the verdict is handed down,
the killer makes a daring escape, aided and abetted by a twisted accomplice...
Sharper than a Manolo six-inch heel, sexier than a Versace fashion show, and riskier
than all seven deadly sins, Covet will set your pulse racing. |
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Split |
| by Tara Moss |
| Published by HarperCollins. Also published in New Zealand, Russia, France
and Germany. <font color="EB30CA">Available on audio by Bolinda Publishing.</font> |
| Makedde Vanderwall is a woman with a past. She is beautiful, street-smart
and single, a model paying her way through a degree in forensic psychology. As
winter closes in and the days grow shorter, she is drawn into a shifting world
of unstable minds and untrustworthy men, where motives are unclear and desires
are unchecked. Her past cannot be so easily forgotten, and she must face her greatest
challenge yet
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| Fetish |
Tara Moss |
HarperCollins. Also published in New Zealand,
Russia, France and Germany. <font color="EB30CA">Available on audio by Bolinda Publishing.</font> |
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