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Want to read books set in WA? Well we've got you covered! Check out these titles not only set in picturesque Perth but are also written by WA authors.

Updated August 10, 2024
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Ritchie, Brendan
Ebook
A postapocalyptic mystery-thriller for young adults Nox is an arts graduate wondering what to do with his life. Taylor and Lizzy are famous indie musicians, and Rocky works the checkouts at Target. When they find themselves trapped in a giant mall, they eat fast food, watch...
Cloudstreet
Winton, Tim
DVD
Author Tom Winton adopts his own acclaimed novel to the screen in this mini-series about two disparate rural families struggling to build a better life in Perth, Australia during the 1940s and '50s. The Lambs are a staunchly religious family who value hard work and faith in God; the Pickles are a...
The silence of water
Booth, Sharron
Ebook
When Fan's mum, Agnes, announces the family is moving to Western Australia to take care of Agnes's father - a man they've never spoken of before now - Fan finds herself a stranger in a new town living in a home whose currents and tensions she cannot read or understand.Resentful of her mother's...
Benang : from the heart
Scott, Kim
Ebook
Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament--of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing,...

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