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Randolph Stow
Randolph Stow’s most surreal and allegorical novel, a bleak but comic staging of human frailty and the need for belief.
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Set in the desolate outback landscape of Australia’s north-west, the novel tracks the last days of a worn-out Anglican missionary. Fleeing his mission after an agonising confrontation, he immerses himself…
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Inspired by a real-life serial killer, this disturbing psychological drama is the final work of one of Australia’s greatest writers.
A novel by the 1979 Patrick White Literary Award winner. Crispin Clare has nearly died at the age of 24. Convalescing in Suffolk, he is drawn from his psychic isolation…
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Janet Frame
Janet Frame’s previously unpublished novel draws on her own experiences in Menton, France as a Katherine Mansfield Fellow. It is a wonderful social satire, a send-up of the cult of…
Peter Ryan
A memoir of how 18yo intelligence operative, isolated in hostile territory, survived on his wits and through relationships with natives.
Arthur Groom
While living in Central Australia Arthur Groom fell under the spell of our harsh and fascinating country, captivated by its limitless distances and unbelievable colour. Hermannsburg, the home of artist…
David Ireland
I’m only telling you this to let you know what a silly thing it is to live like I do. What it was, I got sacked from my seventeenth job…
Amy Witting
A beautifully drawn portrait of madness, and of the way in which we discover other worlds through literature.
James Aldridge
Hailed as Australia’s Huckleberry Finn, this classic captures a time and place with a beautiful balance of realism and nostalgia.
Criena Rohan
Rohan’s 1962 novel of rock ‘n’ roll, youthful rebellion and big dreams is a love story for the ages.
Kate Grenville
Harley Savage is a large, rawboned, plain person with a ragged haircut and a white t-shirt coming unstitched along the shoulder. Douglas Cheeseman is a big-eared man who avoids his…
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Martin Boyd
A masterful recreation of the vanished world of 1914, and a moving and powerful testament to the devastation of war.
Patrick White
Patrick White’s magnificent debut novel - available for the first time since 1939. Based on Patrick White’s own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby…
Owls Do Cry is one of the classics of New Zealand literature, and has remained in print continuously for fifty years. A fiftieth anniversary edition was published in 2007. Regarded…
Ivan Southall
Five teenage flying to the remote outback face extreme danger when their pilot suffers a heart attack. Will they pull together or turn on each other?
John Hepworth
In sublime prose, this gripping account follows Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese in New Guinea at the end of WWII.
A portrait of the artist as a troubled young woman, this is an autobiographical classic from an Australian literary treasure.
Kenneth MacKenzie
A page-turning thriller. Its central question is not who murdered the beautiful emigre from war-torn Europe, but how and why?
Elizabeth Harrower
Clemency James falls for the unpredictable Christian, and what follows is a relationship of intensity and conflict powerfully described.
Katherine Mansfield
Mansfield is considered to be amongst the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century.These are twenty-three of her best stories.
J. M. Coetzee
An eminent Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions . For him, troubled by Australia’s complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is…
Sarah Murgatroyd
In 1860 Robert O'Hara Burke led a cavalcade out of Melbourne. Accompanied by William Wills, he was prepared to risk everything to be the first European to cross the Australian…
Peter Rose
What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years after just another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and…
Tim Flannery
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aboriginal custodians of the continent.
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Peter Temple
Another addictive crime thriller from the author of Truth and The Broken Shore.
Madeleine St John
Nicola shouldn’t have stepped out to buy cigarettes because the man she finds when she returns is not the same Jonathan. That Jonathan would never have simply, unilaterally, decided that…
Linda Jaivin
Introduced by Krissy Kneen First published in 1995, Eat Me became an instant international bestseller and caused a scandal in the US. Julia is a photographer, Chantal edits a fashion…
The tale of a man who believes he has the right to conquer the mocking flesh of any woman.
Shane Maloney
My heart pumped hard and fast, fed by the jitter of adrenaline coursing through my veins. This was getting beyond a joke…Don’t you just hate it when somebody tries to…
John Clarke
In the author’s own words: possibly the most important anthology ever published.
Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, this is a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
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Helen Garner
The fragile domestic balance of a share house is exploded in this classic Australian novel about friendship, faith and miracles.
Sumner Locke Elliot
The final book by Sumner Locke Elliott, the award-winning author of Careful, He Might Hear You.
Glenda Adams
A satirical journey from Sydney to New York, through the extremes of the ‘60s Won Australia’s highest literary honour in 1987.
Boyd Oxlade
A cult hit later made into a film starring Sam Neill, Death in Brunswick is a classic Australian comedy.
Olga Masters
The moving, uncliched story of Amy, who leaves her three children in their grandmother’s care while she seeks work.
Rod Jones
He would relive for a long time everything she said to him in the room at the mission. He would recall the way her voice had grown thicker and thicker…
Nadia Wheatley
When Noel and Evie come together in adjoining terrace houses in Sydney’s inner city, something more powerful than a dream sets the past back in motion. Winner of NSW State…
Gerald Murnane
A young man arrives on the plains to document the strange, rich culture of the landowning families. This quest becomes his life. Teju Cole calls Murnane ‘a genius on the…
Joan Phipson,Margo Lanagan
A complex and gripping novel of human relationships from one of Australia’s foremost authors for young adults.
Craig Harrison
‘I was sitting bolt upright in bed breathing fast and staring at the wall. The daylight was streaming into the motel room through the slats of the blinds. I seemed…
Murray Bail
Winner National Book Council Award for Australian Literature. Winner Age Book of the Year Award. Introduction by Peter Conrad. It could almost have been their own country: these sections with…
Peter Corris
A thrilling Australian classic that introduces the literary icon Cliff Hardy.
Introduced by Favel Parrett ‘Mother’s stomach bellied out like a sail. Young, she was unable to say no to anyone who asked her to make love. Her reasons for her…
Ruth Park
Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, Jackie Hanna and Cushie Moy are carefree and innocent in their love for each other. But Jackie is a…
A Lifetime on Clouds is funny, honest and sweetly told: a less ribald, Catholic Australian Portnoy’s Complaint.
William Nagle
The Odd Angry Shot is the seminal account of Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War. Brief and bracing, tragic yet darkly funny, it portrays a close-knit group of knockabout SAS…
