About Australia

An international sensation, this hilarious, feelgood novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love.Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelo...

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely dif...

?Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.? ? From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize?winning author Richard FlanaganIn 2013, KurdishIranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia.He has been there ever since.This book is the result. La...

In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale of William and Sal?s deep love for their smal...

I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling...

Meet the Deans"The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any other man. I might as well set the story straight about both of them . . ."Heroes or CriminalsCrackpots or VisionariesFamilies or Enemies." . . Anyway, you know how it is. Every family has a story like this one...

From awardwinning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of bestloved novels in Australia.After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united, and?until God seems to turn His back on their boy Fish?religious. The Pickleses are ...

A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, pageturning debut mystery by awardwinning author Jane Harper.In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly re...

When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hideously wrong ? their families are gone. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been invaded and everyone in their town has been taken prisoner. As the reality of the situation hits them, they must make a decision ? run and hide, give...

Meet Jack Irish, criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, trainee cabinetmaker, and one of the best crime characters ever created.When Jack receives a puzzling message from a jailed exclient, he's too deep in misery over Fitzroy's latest loss to take much notice. Next thing Jack knows, the exclient's dead and he's been drawn...

Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia ...In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie the cockups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the cr...

For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it?s just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it?s her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn?t be any stricter?but that doesn?t seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life.Caught between the oldworld values of her Italian grandmother, the nononsense wisdom...

The Miles Franklin awardwinning classic. 'One of the greatest books written this century' The Illustrated London News'the thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense, not just older or nobler or braver or less clever.' David and Jack Meredith grow up in a patrio...

This is a historical document which should be on every black studies and women's studies course in Australia and round the world. It is also a book of a novel and the complexity and pace of a mystery not solved until the final pages....

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

Alternately hilarious and heartwarming, this beloved comingofage novel from the Australian outback brings together unforgettable characters with clarity and truth, all told in a unique young woman's voice. My Brilliant Career was made into an awardwinning film starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6by9inch ...

Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was running.The Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to have a nation of peace, and to bri...

Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White In 1973, Australian writer Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature." Set in nineteenthcentury Australia, Voss is White's bestknown book, a sweeping n...

Alexis Wright employs mysticism, stark reality, and pointed imagination to recreate the land and the Aboriginal people of Carpentaria.In the sparsely populated northern Queensland town of Desperance, loyalties run deep and battle lines have been drawn between the powerful Phantom family, leaders of the Westend Pricklebush people, and Joseph Midnig...

This extraordinary story of courage and faith is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the repressive life of Moore River Native Settlement, following along the rabbitproof fence back to their homelands. Assimilationist policy dictated that these girls be taken from their kin and their homes in order to be made white. Settle...

These are the memoirs of 29 year old John Birmingham, who has shared houses and apartments with 89 people and kept notes on all of them....

On St Valentine's day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return. This book was first published in 1967....

A tormented and humiliated mixedrace Australian man reaches his breaking point and takes terrifying revenge on his abusers in this critically acclaimed novel based on actual events.In Australia at the turn of the twentieth century, Jimmie Blacksmith is desperate to figure out where he belongs. HalfAnglo and halfAboriginal, he feels out of place ...

The United States of Australia is a hilarious and educational introduction to Australia and its quirky inhabitants. Written for Americans, but equally amusing to anyone visiting the shores of the Great Southern Land, this book examines the relationship between Australia and the U.S., including how Australians view their American cousins. Topics inc...

In 1902, newly married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to the depths of the Northern Territory, where her husband had been appointed manager of 'The Elsey', a large cattle station. One of the very few white women in the area, she was at first resented by people on and around the station, ...

Set in Western Australia in the first decades of the nineteenth century, That Deadman Dance is a vast, gorgeous novel about the first contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the new European settlers.Bobby Wabalanginy is a young Noongar man, smart, resourceful, and eager to please. He befriends the European arrivals, joining them as they ...

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins ...

Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .'Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blondebrick. Family of five. Beatup Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all the other Aussie kids on her street.Except for ...

Albert Barnett Facey was born in 1894 in Maidstone, Victoria & grew up on the Kalgoorlie goldfields & in the wheatbelt of Western Australia. His father died before he was two. He was deserted by his mother soon afterwards. He was looked after by his grandmother until he was eight, when he went out to work. His many jobs included droving, hammering...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTwo brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from Jane HarperBrothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback.Their third brother, Cameron, ...

The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys. It begins in the early part of this century, when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda, the vast Australian sheep station owned by his autocratic and childless older sister; and it ends more than half a century later, when the only surv...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Romance, Historical, Fiction, About, Australia lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

"Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her soul going in and out: wanting to leave, wanting to come back, wanting to leave, wanting to come back. The day will soon harden into what we need to do. But for now we have each other. . . ."He met Candy amid a lush Sydney summer. Gorgeous, sexy, frees...

Spanning fifteen years of work, Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure o...

A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor BookCharlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night.Jasper tak...

The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffering and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps.One of the greatest nonfiction books I've ever read . . . Hughes brings us an entire world. Los Angeles Times...

Welcome to the Kookaburra Creek Cafe.THE PASTFor Hattie, the cafe has been her refuge for the last fifty years ? her second chance at a happy ending after her dreams of being a star were shattered. But will the ghosts of her past succeed in destroying everything she?s worked so hard to build THE PRESENTFor Alice, the cafe is her livelihood. After ...

From Tim Winton, Australia?s most decorated and beloved novelist and the author of Cloudstreet, comes The Shepherd?s Hut, the story of a young man on a thrilling journey of selfdiscovery in one of the most harshest, nearuninhabitable climates on Earth.In The Shepherd?s Hut, Winton crafts the story of Jaxie Clackton, a brutalized rural youth who f...

protect the diamondssurvive the clubsdig deep through the spadesfeel the heartsEd Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffeedrinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadv...

Peter Carey's two Booker Prizewinning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume.Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenthcentury Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine, joins forces with Lucinda, a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her...

Master storyteller Judy Nunn has now sold over 1 million books worldwide. In her spellbinding new bestseller she takes us on a breathtaking journey deep into the red heart of Australia. It is 2001 and as the world charges into the new Millennium, a centuryold dream is about to be realised in the Red Centre of Australia: the completion of the might...

Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is ? or should be ? is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a living from the land, Don Watson explores t...

Ruth Park's classic novel Harp in the South is one of Australia's greatest novels. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and rundown boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy.Filled with beautifully drawn characters that will make you laugh as much as cry, this Aus...

Australia, 1926. After four harrowing years fighting on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns home to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, a...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize?Nothing since Cormac McCarthy?s The Road has shaken me like this.? ?The Washington PostIn The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction. Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to presentday Australia, from the experi...

For its twentyfifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory StewartPart adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. Set in the desolate lands of the Australian Outback, it tells the story of Chatwin's search for the sourc...