They are fiction and the first one is called 'The Potato Factory'. He is Australian and has also written other books based in Australia. For other avid readers can I recommend a site called
Read It Swap It | The UK's Free Book Swap Shop! | The Library I have been using it for ages - you register the books you don't want any more and arrange to swap them for books that other people have listed. All you pay is the postage. This site has saved me a fortune and you can try new authors at almost no cost.