Woman of the Inner Sea
by Thomas Keneally | 
Three Cheers for the Paraclete
by Thomas Keneally | 
Flying Hero Class
by Thomas Keneally | 
Dark Palace
by Frank Moorhouse |
Clean Straw for Nothing
by George Johnston | 
Lilian's Story
by Kate Grenville | 
Four Fires
by Bryce Courtenay | 
The Ladies of Missalonghi
by Colleen McCullough | 
The Conversations at Curlow Creek
by David Malouf | 
Strandloper
by Alan Garner | 
The Touch
by Colleen McCullough |
Dark Places
by Kate Grenville | 
An Open Swimmer
by Tim Winton | 
Mateship with Birds
by Carrie Tiffany | 
His Illegal Self
by Peter Carey | 
Jessica
by Bryce Courtenay | 
The Anatomist
by Federico Andahazi |
Matthew Flinders' Cat
by Bryce Courtenay | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
When Sydney film producer Dimp Bettany discovers the memoirs of her ancestors, pioneer settler John Bettany and convict Sarah Bernard, she is convinced she has found the vehicle for her next film masterpiece. Filtered through Dimp's correspondence with her sister, Prim, an aid worker in the Sudan, we are drawn into the lives of John Bettany, a man far ahead of his time, as he shares his vivid impressions of a new colony, and his future wife Sarah and her close relationship with an English murderess.