Novels

Burial Rites

In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Hannah Kent Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Published year: 2014

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Athena and Dexter lead an enclosed family life, innocent of fashion and bound towards a disturbed …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Helen Garner Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1984

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'He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all . . . deep down in him, …

Year: Tertiary Author: Henry Handel Richardson Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing Published year: 1917

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-…

Author: J. M. Coetzee Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 1999

Liza used to say that she saw her past life as a string of roughly-graded balls, and so did Hilda …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Jessica Anderson Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Published year: 1978

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Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts…

Author: Joan London Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2008

Who the hell’s Nino Culotta. That’s what you asked yourself when you first picked up this book, …

Author: John O’Grady Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1957

An Australian classic, first published in 1903. Described by its author as of 'temper democratic; …

Year: Tertiary Author: Joseph Furphy Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing Published year: 1903

In 1806 William Thornhill, a man of quick temper and deep feelings, is transported from the slums of…

Author: Kate Grenville Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2005

The heartwarming story of Lilian Singer, who starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Kate Grenville Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 1985

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