For the Term of His Natural Life: Text Classics by Marcus Clarke
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wrongfully convicted, a young aristocrat is sent to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. There he is forced to endure tremendous suffering, from the cruelty of those in power to the harsh untamed country. Dawes remains determined to clear his name, no matter the trials that come his way.
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power by Helen Garner
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it?;;Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her heart, the search for ...Show more
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way—so pregnant with misanthropy—that it’s ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through th ...Show more
Questions of Travel: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 by Michelle de Kretser
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
"It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book."--A.S. Byatt, Guardian Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe--expl ...Show more
All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
‘A vivid portrait of life as a refugee in 1990s Australia . . . Tracey Lien’s first novel is a deeply moving tale of rage, regret and resilience . . . A brilliant debut’ The Times 'An unforgettable debut, utterly compelling from start to finish. Original. Heartbreaking. Gripping. I just loved it!' Liane ...Show more
All That I Am by Anna Funder
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. 'A ripper.' The Australian 'Gripping.' Sydney Morning Herald 'Brilliant ...Show more
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Don Tillman | Reading Level: very good
Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed the Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver. Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also ...Show more
Benang: From the Heart - Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2000 by Kim Scott
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Fremantle Press Treasures
Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather's enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the 'first white man born', he wants to be a failure. But would such failure m ...Show more
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book A New York Times Notable Book of 1998 "There is such delight in Eucalyptus, such a strange and sly and swerving humour -- You will never forget what is at the heart of this novel -- one of the great and most surprising courtships in literat ...Show more
The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
The bestseller from the author of the upcoming new novel The Year of the Farmer. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE WINSLET AND LIAM HEMSWORTHTilly Dunnage has come home to care for her mad old mother. She left the small Victorian town of Dungatar years before, and became an accomplished couturier ...Show more