Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in Australia or the Pacific Islands.
Pacific, inc. Hawaii, Aus & NZ
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Playground: A Novel
by Richard Powers
Hardcover: Sep 2024
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.
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Bright Objects
by Ruby Todd
Hardcover: Jul 2024
A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a debut novel that blends mystery, astronomy, and romance, perfect for fans of Emma Cline's The Girls and Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands....
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A Disappearance in Fiji
by Nilima Rao
Hardcover: Jun 2023
Paperback: May 2024
A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigating a missing persons case in colonial Fiji
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Birnam Wood: A Novel
by Eleanor Catton
Hardcover: Mar 2023
Paperback: Mar 2024
The Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive.
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Exiles: Aaron Falk Mystery #3
by Jane Harper
Hardcover: Jan 2023
Paperback: Feb 2024
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jane Harper comes Exiles, a captivating mystery about a missing mother.
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All That's Left Unsaid: A Novel
by Tracey Lien
Hardcover: Sep 2022
Paperback: Sep 2023
For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who returns home to her family in the wake of her brother's shocking murder, determined to discover what ...
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Dirt Creek: A Novel
by Hayley Scrivenor
Hardcover: Aug 2022
Paperback: May 2023
In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together.
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Edie Richter is Not Alone
by Rebecca Handler
Hardcover: Mar 2021
Paperback: Oct 2022
Funny, acerbic Edie Richter is moving with her husband from San Francisco to Perth, Australia.
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Crossings
by Alex Landragin
Hardcover: Jul 2020
Paperback: Oct 2021
Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut--a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes.
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A Million Things
by Emily Spurr
Paperback: Aug 2021
Winner of the 2021 BookBrowse Debut Award
A soaring, heartfelt debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears.
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The Exiles
by Christina Baker Kline
Hardcover: Aug 2020
Paperback: Jul 2021
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant historical novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of women's lives - two English convicts and an ...
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Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World
by Peter Moore
Hardcover: May 2019
Paperback: Jul 2020
An unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized world.
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