Di Morrissey

A story of friendship, mystery and adventure in outback Australia. Journey with master storyteller Di Morrissey to the red, rocky desert in her 31st novel. Top-rating TV presenter Nicole and her savvy producer and friend Stacie suddenly find themselves under the rule of a new boss ... he's arrogant, patronising and out to prove he's in charge. Their challenge? To...

River Song, the 30th novel from Australia's favourite storyteller Di Morrissey, tells a story about friendship and what happens when dreams come true. The arrival of a hotshot New York composer brings a rare touch of glamour and excitement to the peaceful country town of Fig Tree River. For Leonie, Madison, Sarita and Chrissie, four women involved in the local...

A modern mystery born in a timeless Tasmanian forest from Australia's favourite storyteller, with new novel The Endless Sky coming December 2025. 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...

The sequel to Tears of the Moon. The Kimberley — from the red desert to the remote town of Broome — is the backdrop for Kimberley Sun. Lily Barton is beautiful, adventurous and 50-something. She is looking for a complete life change. Sami, her daughter, is 30, driving alone through the outback and finally, reluctantly, confronting her family roots. Together...

The 30th novel from Australia's favourite storyteller Di Morrissey, with new novel The Endless Sky coming December 2025. A story about friendship and what happens when dreams come true... The arrival of a hotshot New York composer brings a rare touch of glamour and excitement to the peaceful country town of Fig Tree River. For Leonie, Madison, Sarita, and Chrissie,...

From Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel The Endless Sky coming December 2025. Di Morrissey's A Distant Journey is a tribute to the real Australia she knows so well. In 1962 Cindy drops out of college to impulsively marry Australian grazier Murray Parnell, moving from the glamorous world of Palm Springs, California, to an isolated sheep station on the sweeping...

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 rides to the hounds and leads an indulged life. That is, until she shocks her parents by becoming involved with an older man. Scandalised, they try to pack her...

From Australia's favourite storyteller with a new novel, The Endless Sky, coming December 2025. Face her demons? Or run? After being double-crossed by a devious colleague, career woman Ellie Conlan quits her job on principle. With no idea what to do next, she retreats to Storm Harbour, an idyllic Victorian beach town. Ellie's grandfather runs The Storm Harbour Chronicle, the...

Follow the Morning Star by Di Morrissey is the captivating sequel to the bestselling Heart of the Dreaming, bringing back beloved characters Queenie and TR. Queenie Hanlon seems to have it all. She's the mother of two adoring children, the affluent owner of a prosperous outback station, and the wife of the charming bushman, TR Hamilton. However, Queenie's idyllic life...

Heart of the Dreaming is the book that launched Di Morrissey as Australia's most popular female novelist. At 21, Queenie Hanlon has the world at her feet and the love of handsome bushman TR Hamilton. Beautiful, wealthy, and intelligent, she is the only daughter of Tingulla Station, the famed outback property in the wilds of western Queensland. At 22, her...

Monsoon is a journey into the hearts and memories of those caught in a certain time in a particular place. Sandy Donaldson has been working for a volunteer organisation in Vietnam for the past four years. As her contract nears its end, she is reluctant to leave, so she invites her oldest friend, Anna, to come for a holiday and...

She's sold millions of bestselling books. Come into the world of Di Morrissey, Australia's favourite storyteller. As a psychological study of sibling relationships and as a thriller, Rain Music is utterly compelling. — West Australian Morrissey's beautifully crafted story celebrates history and nature. — Australian Women's Weekly Before you face the future, first you must confront the past. Di writes...

Scatter the Stars by Di Morrissey tells the captivating story of Randy Storm, a larrikin Australian actor who once had it all. Swept up by Hollywood in the 1950s, Randy possessed the looks, charm, and talent to take on the world. However, by the 1990s, he is almost forgotten, burned out after a life of movie star excess. When producer...

Tears of the Moon is the spellbinding bestseller from Australia's most popular female novelist. Broome, Australia, 1893: It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry. When young English bride Olivia Hennessy meets dashing pearling master Captain Tyndall, their lives are destined to be linked by the mysterious power of the pearl. Sydney, Australia, 1995: Lily Barton embarks on...

The Bay is a beautiful and peaceful town on the Australian east coast, a melting pot of city escapees, alternative lifestylers, 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 shocks her husband by buying an old house in The Bay...

Top-rating TV presenter Nicole and her savvy producer and friend Stacie suddenly find themselves under the rule of a new boss ... he's arrogant, patronising and out to prove he's in charge. Their challenge? To create a hit show revealing the hidden heart of outback Australia - a place few from the towns and cities have visited and even fewer...

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 interest in its country of origin and her uncle's unfulfilled...

It's the psychedelic 70s and social conventions are being challenged. When Catherine Moreland from rural Australia goes on her first trip abroad, a handsome American naval officer sweeps her off her feet and she goes to live in beautiful, romantic Hawaii with her new husband. At first, the magic and loveliness of the islands lead Catherine to believe she is...

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. When the McBrides' eldest daughter falls in love with the Holtens' only son...

From Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel The Endless Sky coming December 2025. In the ashes of her marriage, she finds the truth about his past and the courage to start again in The Last Paradise. There's no denying the beauty and opulence of Morrissey's rendering of place . . . She is a master of the genre. Weekend Australian...

A compelling story of two remarkable women connected across the decades by the men who love them... and the magic of a place called Zanana. The Last Rose of Summer introduces us to Kate, a strong-willed heiress determined to defy Edwardian convention, who must pay the ultimate price to keep the home she loves so much. Odette, an independent and...

Di Morrissey returns to her roots with a heartfelt tale of secrets, mystery and community in an idyllic Sydney waterway, inspired by her childhood home of Pittwater. A secluded, peaceful and diverse waterside community faces turmoil as corporate greed threatens to undo generations of heritage and tradition. Tensions mount as the community's way of life is threatened. Meanwhile, in the...

Di Morrissey returns to her roots with a heartfelt tale of secrets, mystery and community in an idyllic Sydney waterway, inspired by her childhood home of Pittwater. A secluded, peaceful and diverse waterside community faces turmoil as corporate greed threatens to undo generations of heritage and tradition. Tensions mount as the community's way of life is threatened. Meanwhile, in the...

The Opal Desert by Di Morrissey is a captivating exploration of the lives of three women at pivotal moments in their lives. Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she sacrificed her own art career. Now she needs to find the courage to rekindle her...

When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author - her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappeared from the family 60 years before? What caused such a severe rift? Julie is invited to stay with her cousins who...

From Australia’s favourite storyteller with a new novel The Endless Sky coming December 2025. Di Morrissey returns to the red earth of the Kimberley with a passionate story of resistance and resilience under its soaring blue skies. After the upheaval which separated Jacqui Bouchard from her beloved son, she has finally settled in Broome, a magical remote town on the...

Beneath the calm aqua waters of the Great Barrier Reef, there is an ongoing war for survival. It is a war 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, two communities come together in an uneasy...

From the mountains to the valleys, from big cities to tiny towns, to the outback and the islands, Di Morrissey knows this country. She's been there. In The Road Back, Di weaves a tale of reconnection and starting over. Journalist Chris Baxter is at a crossroads. Returning with his teenage daughter to his mother's house in the beautiful township of...

The Silent Country is a vast and beautiful wilderness, a place which holds secrets and stories that are rarely spoken. TV producer Veronica Anderson travels to the Northern Territory to retrace the journey of an expedition that had set out 50 years earlier to film the outback, but which mysteriously ended in tragedy. Of the group, led by the eccentric...

In Melbourne, a baby girl is found abandoned in the Victorian Art Gallery. She is wrapped in a shawl decorated with a motif that links her to ancient rock paintings in the Kimberley. In Los Angeles, a movie producer's dying daughter is haunted by nightmares after visiting the Kimberley. And it is to the Kimberley that ex-nun Beth Van Horton...

The Valley is nestled between rugged peaks, divided by a magnificent river. Within its peaceful green contours lie the secrets of generations of tribes, families, and loners who have come under its spell. But some secrets are never shared, never told. Until one woman returns and begins asking questions... and discovers the story of a forgotten valley pioneer whose life...

The Winter Sea is a generational story of identity, loyalty and secrets, set on the beautiful NSW south coast. "A delightful read and a clever insight into a fascinating period of Australian history." – Australian Women's Weekly Escaping to the country from her unhappy city life, Cassie Holloway moves to the little town of Whitby Point. Here she meets the...

A young Australian woman leaves Sydney for a new world - Guyana, South America. Captivated by Guyana's wild, unspoilt beauty, Madison Wright Jones joins the native Amerindians struggling to preserve their culture against corporate exploitation. But her new-found commitment soon plunges Madison into a mire of murder, drug smuggling, and political corruption. And finally, an unexpected love that pits her...