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Jessica Anderson
He jumped down to the wharf and walked alone out of the torchlight to stand behind Letty. Frances looked from his face to her sister’s, and once again felt the…
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David Ireland
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award in 1971, this is a ruthless and comic portrait of working class Australia.
David Ballantyne
This is the great unread New Zealand novel–a gothic thriller, a coming-of-age story and a sinister family tragedy.
Patricia Wrightson
A memorable and beautifully told young adult novel by CBCA Book of the Year winner Wrightson.
Thomas Keneally
A South Pacific penal colony in the late eighteenth century. An honest man named Phelim Halloran and Ann Rush, his secret bride. Poet, soldier, lover and grand innocent, Halloran must…
Elizabeth Harrower
The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power, from one of Australia’s greatest writers.
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Ivan Southall
An action-packed Australian adventure story, about courage, friendship and survival in the face of a seemingly insurmountable bushfire.
Afferbeck Lauder
Introduced by John Clarke
Do you sign on the dotted lion? Is your tea nature Orpheus rocker? Who is Charlie Charm Puck in ‘Waltzing Matilda’?
There was never any book…
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Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Ronald Hugh Morrieson combines Boys’ Own adventure, psychological thriller, small-town saga and family farce to produce a unique masterpiece.
Sumner Locke Elliot
It’s the Great Depression. Six-year-old PS is an orphan. He lives in Sydney with his Aunt Lila. But all that is about to change. Now his Aunt Vanessa has decided…
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Kenneth Cook
Wake in Fright is the original and greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
Nene Gare
First published in 1961 A fictionalized account of the author’s ten years living alongside Aboriginal people Immediately acclaimed as a groundbreaking novel.
Robin Boyd
There can be few other nations which are less certain than Australia as to what they are and where they are. Brilliant, witty, scathing, The Australian Ugliness is the classic…
Eleanor Spence
Lillipilly Hill is the story of Harriet Wilmot and her family, who have come to live in an inherited house in the New South Wales town of Barley Creek at…
Originally published in 1958, The Long Prospect was described as ranking second only to Patrick White’s Voss in postwar Australian literature.
Martin Boyd
The story of a marriage under threat, it is a comedy of manners which carries an undercurrent of unease, reflecting the contrasting issues of approaching war and the personal conflict…
Nino Culotta
A hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience, by a writer with a brilliant ear for the Australian way with words.
A Difficult Young Man (1955) charts the complex personal relationships in an upper middle class Anglo-Australian family. It won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956
A lost classic of Australian literature. Boyd is a deeply humane novelist, a writer of family sagas without peer.
Ned Kelly
The Jerilderie Letter is Ned Kelly’s manifesto, the story of a widow’s son outlawed.
Henry Handel Richardson
He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all…deep down in him, he knew, was an enormous residue of vitality…It was like a buried treasure…
Frederic Manning
Ernest Hemingway called this breathtaking account of the Great War ‘the finest and noblest book of men in war’.
C. J Dennis
Introduced by Jack Thompson The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a comic verse novel, was first published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in…
Louis Stone
One side of the street glittered like a brilliant eruption with the light from a row of shops; the others, lined with houses, was almost deserted, for the people, drawn…
The classic Australian novel of school days, a compelling and frank account of a young girl’s coming of age.
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Peter Handel Richardson
Henry Handel Richardson’s debut, published in London in 1908, is set in the music scene of turn-of-the-century Leipzig, a cosmopolitan centre for the arts drawing students from around the world-among…
Joseph Furphy
A classic of the Australian outback, SUCH IS LIFE is the farcical, tragic reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue.
Barbara Baynton
First published 1902, Bush Studies is famous for an unsentimental depiction of frontier life with its particular difficulties for women.
Miles Franklin
This is not a romance–I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither…
Fergus Hume
The original blockbuster crime novel, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide.
John Nicol
At length, almost to our sorrow, we made the land upon the 3rd of June 1790, just one year all but one day from our leaving the river. We landed…
Matthew Finders
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim…
Watkin Tench
An extraordinary first-hand account of the early years of Australian settlement, 1788 is highly readable and hugely entertaining.
