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Carrie Tiffany
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house…
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Adrian Mitchell
Plein Airs and Graces examines the extraordinary life of George Collingridge de Tourcey, a landscape painter of the late nineteenth century, just ahead of the Australian impressionists. When he emigrated…
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Paul Ham
The untold story of the Sandakan Death Marches of the Second World War.This is the story of the three - year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a…
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Jenny Hocking
The first contemporary biographical study of Gough Whitlam from his childhood in Canberra, his extensive war service and marriage to Margaret, this book draws upon the author’s unprecedented access to…
Ross McMullin
An analysis of the individuals making up the lost generation of WWI. They involve a range of backgrounds and experiences, all states and classes, and come from a variety of…
Sue McPherson
Written from teenager girl Fuzzy Mac’s perspective, Grace Beside Me is a quirky, warmly rendered story of home and family life in a small town. The black&write! judges remarked on…
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Bruce Pascoe
Albert Cutts is a tree feller. A fella who cuts down trees. Fog is a fox cub raised by a dingo. Hes called a dox because people are suspicious of…
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Vikki Wakefield
Silence, a street kid, finds Friday and she joins him in a gang led by beautiful, charismatic Arden. When Silence is involved in a crime, the gang escapes to a…
Libby Gleeson
A gripping mystery unfolds in the aftermath of a devastating cyclone that leaves a young girl unable to remember her name or where she comes from . Vivid, compelling writing…
Marianne Musgrove
Shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2013
Two friends. One book of revenge. Zero consequences?
As a soldier’s daughter, Romola’s been to six schools in eight years, always having…
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John Kinsella
One of the most original and poignantly authentic poets writing in English. Harold Bloom
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Peter Rose
Crimson Crop is Peter Roses fifth poetry collection and his first since 2005. This volume has at its core a series of elegies, several about his late father Bob Rose…
Christopher Koch
Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Christopher Koch returns with a remarkable novel of gripping narrative power. Young Hugh Dixon believes he can save his father from ruin if…
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Michelle de Kretser
A dazzling, compassionate and deeply moving novel from one of world literature’s rising stars.
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Romy Ash
Tom and Jordy have been living with their gran since the day their mother, Loretta, left them on her doorstep and disappeared. Now Loretta’s returned, and she wants her boys…
