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Looking for an Australian Author?
You may have already read one! Many popular authors are from Australia, including Liane Moriarty, Peter Carey, and Kate Morton. One of my favorite new mystery series is set in Australia, the Aaron Falk series by Jane Harper, with a great sense of place and the outdoors, similar to the Paul Doiron mysteries. Try these online resources for more great Australian books.
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The light between oceans : a novel
by M. L Stedman
Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock, where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant who has washed up on the shore, only to witness a rift in their marriage, in a book that inspired the forthcoming film.
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True history of the Kelly gang
by Peter Carey
Ned Kelly, the legendary nineteenth-century Australian folk-hero, describes how he, his brother, and two friends led authorities on a twenty-month manhunt, marked by widespread populist support, before his capture and execution
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The shepherd's hut
by Tim Winton
A brutalized rural youth flees his father's violent death to live in exile in Australia's harsh saltlands, where his life comes to depend on a ruined priest he is not sure he trusts. By the award-winning author of Breath
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The dry
by Jane Harper
Receiving a sinister anonymous note after his best friend's suspicious death, federal agent Aaron Falk is forced to confront the fallout of a twenty-year-old false alibi against a backdrop of the worst drought Melbourne has seen in a century
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The husband's secret
by Liane Moriarty
Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecilia is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women
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The book thief
by Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors (Author is Australian).
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The forgotten garden : a novel
by Kate Morton
Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her until she grows up that she is not their child, a situation that causes her to return to England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her granddaughter. Reprint.
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The thorn birds
by Colleen McCullough
A saga of three generations of the indomitable Cleary family begins in the early 1900s when Paddy Cleary, a poor New Zealand farm laborer, moves his wife and children to the Australian sheep station owned by his rich sister
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