The Boat by Nam Le
$22.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling, emotionally riveting debut collection: the seven stories in Nam Le's The Boat take us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the world.Whether Nam Le is conjuring the story of 14-year-old Juan, a hit man in Colombia; or an aging painter mourning the de ...Show more
Of a Boy: Popular Penguins by Sonya Hartnett
$14.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Internationally published author: the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark. Award winning author. The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand, shopping centres an ...Show more
Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
$32.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in the very least. Yet as the sign states, Darnmoor is merely a gateway, a waypoint on the road to where you really want to be. Darnmoor is the home of ...Show more
A Town Like Alice: (Vintage Classics Shute Series) by Nevil Shute
$19.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
This title features an introduction by Eric Lomax. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that l ...Show more
That Deadman Dance: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011 by Kim Scott
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance - those stiff movements, those jerking limbs - as if he'd learned it from their very own selves; but with him it was a dance of life, a lively dance for people to do together... Told ...Show more
It's Raining in Mango: Popular Penguins by Thea Astley
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
One family traced from the 1860s to the 1980s, beginning with Cornelius Laffey, an Irish-born journalist. Wresting his kin from the easy living of nineteenth-century Sydney, he takes them to northern Queensland where thousands of hopefuls are digging for gold in the mud. The family confronts the horror ...Show more
Bodies of Light: Winner of the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Jennifer Down
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
WINNER OF THE 2022 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD Shortlisted, Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 2022Shortlisted, Stella Prize, 2022Shortlisted, Fiction, The Age Book of the Year Award, 2022Shortlisted, Barbara Jefferis Award, 2022Shortlisted, Adult crime novels, Sisters in Crime Davitt Awar ...Show more
Bereft by Chris Womersley
$24.95 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train travel is severely restricted. There are rumours it is the end of the world. In the NSW town of Flint, Quinn Walker returns to the home he ...Show more
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZELondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mist ...Show more
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neigh ...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 Fortunes of Richard Mahony: Text Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
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Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better. Searching for a place, a meaning, a life, Mahony and his wife Mary journey from wealth to poverty, order to chaos, sanity to the asylum. The Fortunes of Richard Mahonyis a towering novel. This ...Show more