Scrublands by Chris Hammer
$22.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Martin Scarsden Ser.
Winner of the New Blood Dagger Award In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller.In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young ...Show more
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
The Father is Martin Dean.He taught his son always to make up his mind, and then change it. An impossible, brilliant, restless man, he just wanted the world to listen to him - and the trouble started when the world did.The Uncle is Terry Dean.As a boy, Terry was the local sporting hero. As a man, he bec ...Show more
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
'Savage: think Atwood in the outback' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train'An unforgettable reading experience' Liane Moriarity, author of Big Little Lies'Ferocious... recalls the early Elena Ferrante' NPR'A masterpiece' Guardian'Devastating' Economist She hears her own thick voice deep insid ...Show more
The Harp in the South: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An Australian classic, this is the story of the Darcy family who live in the Depression era tenements of Surry Hills, Sydney. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops, and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy ...Show more
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams by Anita Heiss
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
'The novel flows like the great Murrumbidgee River itself, with powerful undercurrents that sweep the reader along - I feel it's a book that all Australians should read, to try and understand why our colonial past still causes so much pain and grievance.’ – Kate Forsyth
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
$24.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into t ...Show more
The Lebs: Miles Franklin Literary Award Finalist by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
$29.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: near fine
A confronting new novel from award winning Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Michael Mohammed Ahmad. 'Bani Adam thinks he's better than us!' they say over and over until finally I shout back, 'Shut up, I have something to say!' They all go quiet and wait for me to explain myself, redeem myself, ...Show more
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Penguin Classics
The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary "My Brilliant Career" when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to "Jane Eyre." But the ...Show more
Grand Days (#1 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Edith Trilogy
"Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood in the dining car, makes his acquaintance over a lunch of six courses, and allows him to kiss her passionately.Their early intimacy binds them t ...Show more
The Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave th ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more