Novels

The Good Parents

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

Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Ruth Park Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1948

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An Australian woman returns alone to the Greek village house where she was once welcomed as a bride…

Author: Beverley Farmer Publisher: UQP Published year: 1995

Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote bush shack trying to finish his book on Henry James when his …

Author: Michelle de Kretser Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2007

The Man Who Loved Children is Christina Stead's masterpiece about family life. Set in Washington …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Christina Stead Publisher: MUP Published year: 1940

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A true classic, The Morality of Gentlemen was first published in 1984. It is one of a few great …

Author: Amanda Lohrey Publisher: Vulgar Press Published year: 1984

If you still haven't acquainted yourself with Murray Whelan, then it's high time you did. With the …

Author: Shane Maloney Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2007

Fergus Hume’s sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia’s original blockbuster …

Author: Fergus Hume Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1886

A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Richard Flanagan Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2014

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Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Charlotte Wood Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2015

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