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Frank Moorhouse
Winner of the Queensland Literary Award. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Barbara Jefferis Prize.
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed…
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Set in Geneva in the inter-war period, this book conveys all the high idealism of that benighted period in European history. It charts the rite of passage of Edith Berry…
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Steven Carroll
The fifth novel in the acclaimed Glenroy series by multi-award winning novelist Steven Carroll. Shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award
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A luminous exploration of public and private reckoning in a Melbourne suburb during the upheavals of the 1970s. It is a celebration of the rhythms and the intricacies of suburban…
When the West Indies cricket team arrive in Australia in the summer of 1960, Michael at 16, is enthralled. As the summer unfolds, Michael realises that he has learnt many…
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On a hot summer’s night in the 1950s, the old and the new, diesel and steam, town and country all collide - and nobody will be left unaffected. The Art…
Robert Newton
Charlie’s father is dead and Charlie has to leave school to support himself and his mother. Squizzy Taylor, the notorious underworld criminal, employs Charlie as his runner. Charlie has a…
Kirsty Murray
On Armistice Day 1918 Tiney Flynn turns seventeen and it feels as though her life is just beginning. Her brother and his friends are coming home from the Great War…
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Gabrielle Williams
A rock chick. An artist with attitude. A girl with a past. A party animal. Four lives collide when one of the world’s most famous paintings is stolen. It’s a…
Justine Larbalestier
Kelpie and Dymphna are accustomed to the mean streets of 1930s Sydney, but this is a day that will test their courage, their loyalty, and their ability to survive both…
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Rachel Leary
Van Diemen’s Land, 1826. A desperate convict flees into the wilderness. But the land that hides her will show her no mercy. A brilliant literary debut from a writer of…
Kim Scott
In playful, musical prose, this book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers. The novel’s hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby…
Tim Winton
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton’s sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and…
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Kim Kane
When Madeleine is shipped off to stay with her eccentric grandmother for the holidays, she expects the usual: politics, early-morning yoga, extreme health food, and lots of…
David Malouf
Semi-autobiographical, the novel perfectly captures the ragged modernisation of Brisbane and the sense of a generation locked in combat with the elusive Australian Dream.
Madeleine St John
Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, this is a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
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Ruth Park
Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and rundown boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not…
Lisa Lang
1880s. Marvellous Melbourne is a lavish and raucous city where anything could happen. Entrepreneur Edward William Cole is building the Cole’s Book Arcade and filling it with whatever amuses him…
Emma Ashmere
Sydney, Milsons Point, 1926. Entire streets are being demolished for the building of the Harbour Bridge. Ellis Gilbey, landlady by day, gardening writer by night, is set to lose everything…
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Henry Handel Richardson
The classic Australian novel of school days, a compelling and frank account of a young girl’s coming of age.
Chris Womersley
A summer of liberation leads to a teenage boy becoming caught up in the notorious heist of Picasso’s Weeping Woman.
Toni Jordan
Multi-generational story about two families and the love affair that brings them together, told in the voices of nine people and the day that changes their life forever.
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Nevil Shute
After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left…
Fergus Hume
The original blockbuster crime novel, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide.
George Johnston
Through the story of the two brothers, George Johnston created an enduring exploration of two Australian myths: that of the man who loses his soul as he gains worldly success…
Kate Grenville
A universal and timeless story of love, identity and belonging
Andrew Croome
A masterful, taut and atmospheric novel of political espionage and intrigue, telling the story of the Petrov defection during the Cold War of the 1950s. Winner of the 2008 The…
Kate Morton
A lost child On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised…
Peter Goldsworthy
Set in Darwin, Paul Crabbe meets Eduard Keller, a Viennese refugee with a mysterious past. Keller is the piano teacher and Crabbe the unwilling pupil, for Keller is unspeakably demanding…
Favel Parrett
From award-winning author of Past The Shallows, Favel Parrett, a story about the moments that change us and the moments that save us.
Tony Birch
Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rendered time capsule…
