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2018
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In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husband's secluded property - Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love with Arcadia's wild, ancient forest. And when an unknown predator strikes, she is saved by an unusual protector...Two generations later, Stella's granddaughter, Sally, and her best friend, Jessica, stumble over Stella's secret life in the forest and find themselves threatened in turn.What starts as a ...
2007
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From Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel The Endless Sky coming December 2025.Beneath the calm aqua waters of the Great Barrier Reef, there is an on-going war of survival. It is a war of survival among the creatures, the life-forms and the coral that make up the reef. It is so threatened it could disappear within 30 years. Above the reef on a small coral cay - Branch Island - two communities come together in an uneasy alliance: a tourist resor...
2012
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With millions of copies sold worldwide, Di Morrissey is Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel The Endless Sky coming December 2025.Natalie is a young Gold Coast mother with a loving husband, two small children and a happy lifestyle. While helping her mother move house, she finds a little box containing a Burmese artefact. When Natalie learns its unique history through a letter left by her great-great uncle, it ignites an interes...
Rage the Night
A Novel
2023
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**National BestsellerAt once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting account of a real-life Newfoundland tragedy from 1914, brilliantly and sensitively imagined by one of Canada's most beloved and bestselling authors.**When a deathbed confession uncovers secrets about his birth, twenty-year-old Roan—who has always believed himself an orphan, with no last name—sets off on a quest to discover the truth of his origins. His journey...
Pluck
A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist
2021
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE 2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS’ EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWARDA deeply personal account of love's restorative ability as it leads renowned novelist Donna Morrissey through mental illness, family death, and despair to becoming a writer--told with charm and inimitable humour.When Donna Morrissey left the only home she had ever known, an isolated Newfoundland settlement, at age 16, ...
2007
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An outback family saga that is funny, poignant and completely unexpected from Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Before the Storm out now.Di's 12th novel opens in New Zealand in the 1960s. The Mitchell family has run a prosperous sheep farm for generations and the youngest daughter, Sally, has just turned 20. She shocks her parents by becoming involved with an older man. Scandalised, they try to pack her off to England, but Sally doesn't make...
2007
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The Last Mile Home is an unforgettable story of the power of enduring love from Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel The Endless Sky coming December 2025.It is 1953 in a small Australian country town, a time of post-war prosperity and hope.The Holtens are wealthy, yet austere, graziers who have lived on the land for generations. The McBrides are a large and loving shearer's family who are new arrivals to the district.Wh...
2008
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From Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel The Endless Sky coming December 2025.International publisher Nina Jansous is the epitome of grace and style, and Blaze, her New York-based magazine has become one of the most successful in the world. Now Nina wants to return to Australia and re-launch an Australian edition of Blaze.Alisson Gruber, not yet 30, is unimpressed by Nina's decision to appoint her as editor of the Aus...
Tell It to the Water
Five Siblings Tell of Their Father's Grief and His Struggle Back to Hope
2026
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**INSTANT #1 BESTSELLERFrom the acclaimed and bestselling author Donna Morrissey, a memoir of love, grief, and the meaning of family that sings with her inimitable style and the voices of her unforgettable Newfoundland parents and siblings.**A voice-driven, compact, and powerful memoir of siblings dealing with the loss of their mother while trying to save their stubborn, loving, but infuriating father from the self-destruction of his own grief.Each of Donna...
2015
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Brother and sister Ned and Bella Chisholm are struggling with a family tragedy that has set them on opposite paths. After taking off to pursue his musical dreams in Far North Queensland, Ned disappears.When Bella goes in search of him, she finds herself in remote Cooktown, the isolated, little-known gem of the far north of Australia, and a place where both Ned and Bella's lives will be dramatically changed forever.One story through two sets of eyes.
2007
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A mesmerising novel of the film industry and one man's life that charts a path for all of us, f****rom Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel The Endless Sky coming December 2025.Larrikin Australian actor Randy Storm had it all. Swept up by Hollywood in the 1950s, he had the looks, charm and talent to take on the world. But by the 1990s he's forgotten, burned out after a life of movie star excess.When producer Michael Matthews meets the o...
2001
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With millions of copies sold worldwide, Di Morrissey is Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel The Endless Sky coming December 2025.The Bay is a beautiful and peaceful town on the Australian east coast, a melting pot of city escapees, alternative life-stylers, feral dropouts, lost kids, backpackers, and men and women in search of love and a new sense of identity.When Sydney corporate wife Holly Jamieson turns 40, she shoc...











