Novels

Voss

Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and…

Year: Tertiary Author: Patrick White Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 1957

Luke and Anna, thirty-something and restless, decide on a sea change. Worn down by city life and …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Amanda Lohrey Publisher: Black Inc. Published year: 2009

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At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Peter Temple Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2010

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In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Peter Carey Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2001

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Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things – her hometown and prison…

Year: Secondary, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Melissa Lucashenko Publisher: UQP Published year: 2018

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This masterpiece of Australian fiction was written by Randolph Stow when he was just twenty-two. It …

Year: Tertiary Author: Randolph Stow Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Published year: 1958

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 Published year: 1978

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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

In the late afternoon of a day in February, that hottest of Australian summer months, when a …

Author: Kenneth Mackenzie Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1937

The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of …

Author: Tara June Winch Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Published year: 2019