Australian Romance Fiction

Arthur MacDonald, 85, is having an end-of-life crisis. His beloved, dying wife of over 60 years no longer knows who he is. His older brother still has all his hair and a wife almost half his age. The man his middle-aged daughter is dating has a ponytail. His teenaged grandson wants to cook desserts for a living. And his daughter wants him to move into Silvermine retirement home. Then Arthur meets the gorgeous, radical, 80-something-year-old Robbie and learns that nobody is ever too old to fall in love all over again.

It's been three years since Bo Sullivan lost her dream job as one of the producers of the hit wildlife docu-series, Wild Hearts. Three years since her twin brother Max started battling cancer and she returned home to Lord Howe Island and put her life on hold. Three years since Griffin Marr, one-time crush and partner-in-crime, stole her job to become the lead producer of Wild Hearts.

Burned out from a string of terrible dates and even worse dating apps, Penny Jane has had enough. Luckily, she’s almost at the end of her software engineering degree, and has a brilliant idea – Waves, a dating app focused entirely on audio connections, removing looks from the equation. She’s convinced this is going to be the key to finding an authentic connection. But every great idea also needs great money behind it, and Penny is forced to partner with fellow student Sebastian Harkin, a charming but cocky business major who's allergic to commitment.

After sailing to Australia only to find that the man who asked her to marry him has no intention of fulfilling his part of the bargain, Maggie Chamberlain vows to shape a new life for herself in Sydney. Then arrogant, wealthy Reeve McKenna captures Maggie's untried heart, thrilling her senses with the sweet, dark rush of desire. But Reeve cannot be hers alone, for he is obsessed by his search for his beloved brother James, lost two decades before.

At twenty-two, free-spirited Amber Farrow has no concerns beyond finishing her final year of nursing on exchange in Australia. What she hasn't counted upon is crossing paths with Griffin Lee. Amber and Griffin's two hearts are clearly made for each other. But where Griffin is inclined to put down roots, Amber has always been a citizen of the world, treading lightly upon the earth, never staying too long in one place. Before long, Amber's inability to be still leaves Griffin behind.

It's 1999, and Eira Hart and Ru Tattersall are set up to co-host The Lonely Harts Club, a new late-night radio show to help New Yorkers find love. It's a last chance attempt for both Eira, expert in Celtic mythology and amateur Welsh matchmaker, and Ru, once-hot-shot Aussie DJ, to achieve their New York dreams. The thing is, you either click with a co-host, or you don’t. It’s a bit like falling in love. There’s co-host chemistry, or there isn’t. With the countdown to a new millennium, it feels like the world as they know it is about to end.

Jane Bancroft has returned to Lovett, Tasmania after 20 years away, minus one ex-husband but plus one outraged teenage daughter. Life in the city – life in general – hasn’t quite panned out as she would have liked. With her mother unwell, now seems as good a time as any to come back to where it all began, and perhaps even start a new life here in the heart of Tasmanian apple country. But the legacy of Jane's wild apple youth has not been forgotten by small-town Lovett and her homecoming is haunted by past tragedy.

Australia nació como una colonia penal. A finales del siglo XVIII las cárceles inglesas estaban llenas a rebosar, y, tras la reciente revolución americana, el gobierno necesitaba buscar un nuevo lugar donde deportar a sus delincuentes convictos. Así fue como eligieron una remota costa situada en el otro extremo del mundo, cuyas tierras había reclamado el capitán Cook para la Corona británica poco tiempo atrás, en las cuales no había absolutamente nada.

After a disastrous relationship effectively torches her personal and professional life in Sydney, Annabelle is back in Brisbane. She’s about to start her dream job launching and curating a First Nations gallery in the city, and this time, nothing is getting in the way of her important work. Certainly not romance. Matters of the heart have always turned out to be a surefire way to make Annabelle run for the hills – literally. Everything is going to plan until a birthday trip to the rodeo with her tiddas brings Annabelle up close and very personal with Dusty Davies, bona fide cowboy.

With The Rosie Project, “Graeme Simsion achieved the impossible and created an entirely new kind of romantic hero” (Jojo Moyes, New York Times bestselling author). Now Don Tillman returns in the hilarious and charming sequel to the international sensation. Get ready to fall in love all over...

Based on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham, WHITE SPIRIT is an epic historical adventure set in 19th Century Australia. After escaping from the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Graham finds refuge with the Kabi, a tribe of Aborigines who eventually accept him as one of their own. Attempts to recapture Graham are orchestrated by a variety of contrasting characters working for the all-pervasive British Empire. They include Moreton Bay's tyrannical, opium-addicted commandant Lord Cheetham, the dashing yet warlike Lieutenant Hogan, native tracker Barega and the penal...

Jack might be the bodyguard but where is the body? Private detective Jack Hamma is hired to protect a beautiful Chinese nurse. He escorts her to the airport, she goes into the ladies room and that's the last he see's of her. Jack goes into overdrive to find her but every move is a false start and every clue is a red herring. A relentless and powerful thriller. Reviews: 'The latest instalment of Jack Hamma and his detective agency is currently my favorite.' 'The pace of the book is fast and this is matched by the pace of the humor.' 'The ending, it had me going oooooooh!!! ' 'It ended with a...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to...

When the world fell silent, survival began. Three novels. One unforgettable journey through the ashes of a world reborn. When a deadly infection shatters civilization, survival becomes more than staying alive—it’s about holding onto humanity. From the first desperate nights underground to the fragile hope of rebuilding, Wild Remnants follows those left behind as they fight, love, and rebuild in the ruins of Far North Queensland. Book One: When the Silence Came As the world collapses, paramedic Ciara fights to protect her daughters and find her missing husband. Every decision means life ...

The world ended in silence. The fight for what’s left will not. Ten months after the collapse, teenager Annie’s world has shattered, and with it, everything she once believed about monsters. They don’t always lurk in shadows. Sometimes they wear uniforms. Sometimes they wear the faces of those you love. In the ruins of Sydney, Annie finds an unlikely ally in Jude—a half-infected boy marked by virus and twisted science. His strange, dangerous abilities make him both a threat and their best hope. But the line between abomination and saviour is thinner than either imagined. Haunted by ...

'A powerful and absorbing story of friendship and courage, bringing to life a history that should never be forgotten. I could not put this book down, even as it broke my heart.' Kelly Rimmer In 1941, country girls Minnie Hodgson and Margot McNee set sail from Perth, Australia, for Singapore in...

In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, charming Kathleen and dashing Michael harbor secrets and dreams. Imagining a life beyond the kitchen and fields of the wealthy family they both work for, they plot to leave their homeland, marry, and raise the child Kathleen is secretly carrying. The luck of the Irish, however, is not on their side. Soon, they find themselves swept up in circumstances they never could have fathomed. Kathleen is forced to marry against her will and immigrate to New Zealand.

They came in summer. They fell upon the land swiftly and suddenly. Through autumn they spread, like locusts, like mice, like a plague. Now its winter. They're still here. But so too are Ellie and Homer and their friends.

Hidden transgressions a wrongful accusation and a blossoming love story in the heart of the Australian bush For Irishman Gerry Riordan the perfect, conclusion to a week’s toil is found in the comforting embrace of a pint at Cork’s Drawbridge Hotel. In the winter of 1828, his joy knows no bounds for he has just been certified as a stonemason, a testament to his hard work. Tomorrow he is to deliver ornate gold tabernacle doors to St Mary’s Cathedral, and he intends to propose to the enchanting Anne Donovan, the woman who has captured his heart. However, the very next night plunges Gerry...

A mysterious - and smoking hot - man arrived in my lab today, he could burn everything down and I would dutifully hand him the matches. Cleo has worked hard to be taken seriously, not an easy feat when you’re a young female science professor but she’s managed to pull it off with flying colors. When her classroom is invaded by sexy and mysterious William though, she can’t seem to hold her ground and tell him to leave. There’s just something about William, the professor visiting from Sweden - or so she thinks - has her feeling more like a teenaged girl than a strong independent career...