The Age's top 10 Australian novels

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The Man Who Loved Children

Christina Stead

Sam and Henny Pollit are a warring husband and wife, he a fully blown narcissist and she spoiled and prone to fits of despair. Christina Stead’s masterpiece about family life…

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Voss

Patrick White

Set in 19th-century Australia, this is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a young orphan. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura…

$22.99

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The Watch Tower

Elizabeth Harrower

The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power, from one of Australia’s greatest writers.

$12.95

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For the Term of His Natural Life: Popular Penguins

Marcus Clarke

The main focus of this great convict novel is the complex interaction between those in power and those who suffer, made meaningful because of its hero’s struggle against his wrongful…

$14.99

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My Brilliant Career: Text Classics

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…

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The Transit of Venus

Shirley Hazzard

The Transit of Venus is a 1980 novel written by Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award.  

$22.99

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