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Australia

Peter Carey, The True History of the Kelly Gang.
The tale of Australia’s legendary outlaw, Ned Kelly.

Patricia Carlon, The Souvenir. Mystery
A woman seeks help in discovering which of two hitchhiking teenage girls killed her brother.

Caroline Carver, Blood Junction. Mystery
A reporter travels to an Outback town to meet a fellow journalist and finds herself a murder suspect.

Peter Corris, The Coast Road. Mystery
A woman hires Sydney P.I. Cliff Hardy to find out if the death of her wealthy father was an accident.

Marele Day, The Disappearances of Madalena Grimaldi. Mystery
During a hot summer plagued by brushfires, a Sydney P.I. is hired to find a missing girl.

Gary Disher, The Dragon Man. Mystery
Australian detectives hunt a serial killer targeting women on the Old Peninsula Highway.

David Francis, The Great Inland Sea.
A boy runs away from his Outback home and his violent father but is forced to return when his father has a stroke.

Kerry Greenwood, Away with the Fairies. Mystery
In 1928, Phryne Fisher takes a temporary job as a fashion reporter at a magazine to investigate the murder of an author of fairy tales.

Kate Grenville, The Secret River.
A convicted thief is sent with his family to the penal colony in Australia.

Adrian Hyland, Moonlight Downs. Mystery
A part-white, part-Aborigine woman in Australia returns home after ten years and finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation.

Stephen Irwin, The Dead Path.
A man who has visions of ghosts reliving their violent deaths returns to his childhood home and becomes entangled in a series of murders.

Thomas Keneally, Office of Innocence.
As Australia braces for a possible Japanese invasion during World War II, a priest is suspected in the murder of a troubled woman he was counseling.

Joan London, The Good Parents.
When a girl’s parents come to Melbourne and discover she’s missing, a series of clues forces them to revisit their own dark pasts.

Colleen McCullough, Morgan’s Run.
An Englishman who is sent to the penal colony in Australia for a crime he didn’t commit serves his sentence and starts a new life there.

Andrew McGahan, The White Earth.
After his father’s death, a boy is sent to live in his great-uncle’s decrepit mansion on a sheep ranch.

Monica McInerney, Upside Down Inside Out.
A man and a woman meet on holiday in Australia but aren’t honest with each other about their identities.

Liane Moriarty, Three Wishes.
Australian triplets undergo a tumultuous year involving pregnancy, affairs, and midlife crises.

Neville Shute, A Town Like Alice.
A woman and an Australian soldier who survived a death march in Malaya during World War II are reunited in the Australian Outback.

Peter Temple, The Broken Shore.
An Australian cop recovering from injuries investigates the murder of a millionaire attributed to Aborigine youths.

Carrie Tiffany, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living.
In 1930s Australia, a man and woman try to apply scientific principles to farming as they struggle through drought, Depression, and war.

Arthur Upfield, The Bone Is Pointed. Mystery
Part-Aborigine detective Napoleon Bonaparte investigates the disappearance of a mean-spirited man whom no one wants found.

Kate Veitch, Without a Backward Glance.
On Christmas Eve 1967, a woman walks out the door of her suburban Melbourne home, leaving her husband behind to raise their four children.

Darren Williams, Angel Rock.
Two boys get lost in the Outback but only one returns with no memory of what happened to his little brother.

Tim Winton, Dirt Music.
A woman who is dissatisfied with her conventional life with a wealthy fisherman is drawn to a poacher who is driven out by the community and heads into the tropical wilderness of Australia’s north coast.

New Zealand

Catherine Chidgey, The Strength of the Sun.
A solar eclipse provides a link between the disappearance of a teenage girl and a man who decides to end his 15-year marriage.

Keri Hulme, The Bone People.
Three spiritually adrift people form a family and experience loss and healing among the Maori.

Anthony McCarten, Spinners.
A New Zealand town is up in arms when three pregnant girls claim to have been visited by aliens from outer space.

Johanna Moran, The Wives of Henry Oades.
A man who thought his wife was killed in a Maori uprising in New Zealand later remarries and faces a dilemma when his first wife arrives in California.

Rose Tremain, The Colour.
A man trying to escape his past brings his bride to New Zealand and gets caught up in gold rush fever.

Borneo

C. S. Godshalk, Kalimantaan.
In the 19th century, a young Englishman establishes a private fiefdom on the coast of Borneo.

Easter Island

Lyn Hamilton, The Moai Murders. Mystery
An antique dealer vacationing on Easter Island investigates the death of a man who proposed a new theory about the great statues.

Jennifer Vanderbes, Easter Island.
Two women in different time periods go on expeditions to Easter Island that lead to both scientific and personal discovery.

Fiji

Stephanie Johnson, The Sailmaker's Daughter.
A girl whose mother died in the 1918 flu epidemic is sent to live on a plantation with her aunt and uncle.

Java

Pramoedya Toer, The Girl from the Coast.
A girl from a fishing village on the island of Java enters an arranged marriage with a nobleman but learns she is a “practice wife.”

New Guinea

Gary Braver, Elixir.
A medicinal chemist for a pharmaceutical company becomes the target of a ruthless manhunt when he discovers a flower that can prolong life.

Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip.
During a period of unrest in 1990s New Guinea, a girl finds escapism at school where an eccentric teacher reads Great Expectations to the class.

The Philippines

Merlinda Bobis, Banana Heart Summer.
A 12-year-old girl from a poor family in the Philippines leaves home to work as a maid.

Tess Uriza Holthe, When the Elephants Dance.
While the U.S. and Japan fight for control of the Philippines, a family hide in their basement and tell mythical tales to take their minds off their fear.

David L. Robbins, Broken Jewel.
The U.S. 11th Airborne launches a raid on the Los Banos internment camp in the Philippines to rescue 2,100 Allied civilians from their Japanese captors.

Solomon Islands

Kathryn Miller Haines, Winter in June. Mystery
An actress investigates a murder while performing with a USO troupe on Tulagi during World War II.

Homer Hickam, The Ambassador’s Son.
In 1943, a Coast Guard officer seeks an AWOL marine who’s related to President Roosevelt.

John Shors, Beside a Burning Sea.
In 1942, a U.S. hospital ship is torpedoed and a small group of survivors are stranded on a remote island.

Tahiti

Celestine Vaite, Frangipani.
A Tahitian woman tries to impart her wisdom to her daughter but the girl asks difficult questions and resists her mother’s advice.

Antarctica

Matt Dickinson, Black Ice.
A scientist makes a startling discovery in Antarctica, but when she rescues two stranded explorers she finds herself and her expedition in danger.

James Vance Marshall, White-Out.
A psychiatrist examines the sole survivor of an Antarctic research team who is reluctant to talk about his experience.

Robert Masello, Blood and Ice.
Researchers in Antarctica find the bodies of a man and a woman bound with chains and sealed in a block of ice at the bottom of the ocean.

Matthew Reilly, Ice Station.
A team of Marines race to be the first on the scene when several scientists disappear after discovering an unidentified object in the Antarctic ice.

Rosie Thomas, Sun at Midnight.
A woman joins an Antarctic research team as a geologist and meets a man on the run from his past.