Books set in Sydney

Sydney where Sri Lankan illegal immigrant Danny works as a cleaner and must decide whether to report a murder

Outer Sydney suburbs; the Delaney family's tennis school and their unraveling domestic world when Joy goes missing

Depression-era 1932-37 inner Sydney slums; petty criminal Iris Webber's world

Josephine school and family life

Post-war Sydney Greek-Australian café chain empire

glass factory and city life

Laura grows up in Sydney and returns here to work at a travel publisher; Ravi settles here as a Sri Lankan exile

murder investigation setting

Sydney's north shore suburbs — where Cecilia, Tess, and Rachel's intertwined lives collide around St. Angela's Catholic

Sydney; unnamed narrator works as a Triple Zero emergency operator while meditating on Australian colonial history

NSW south coast retreat, woman building a labyrinth near the sea

journalist protagonist base

Sydney suburb where three couples' lives unravel in the aftermath of a neighborhood barbecue gone wrong

real basis for Sarsaparilla suburb

Western Sydney suburb; Tongan-Australian community where Meadow grows up

Pirriwee Peninsula inspiration

Xiang's home and work at the Chinese Consulate in Sydney

Sydney premises turned into monument to Australian fauna

primary city

departure point and social scenes

climactic bioterrorism plot location