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10 best books like Midnite: The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy (Randolph Stow): Carpentaria, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Out of Ireland, The Nargun and the Stars, The Timeless Land, Warrior Scarlet, Poor Fellow My Country, Silver Brumby Kingdom, Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Power Without Glory

Carpentaria
AuthorAlexis Wright
ISBN1920882176
Hailed as a "literary sensation" by The New York Times Book Review, Carpentaria is the luminous award-winning novel by Australian Aboriginal writer and activist Alexis Wright.

Alexis Wright employs mysticism, stark reality, and pointed imagination to re-create the land and the Aboriginal...
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
AuthorThomas Keneally
ISBN0207197164
The extraordinary Booker Prize shortlisted story of a black man's revenge against an unjust and intolerant society. Thomas Keneally was born in Sydney Australia in 1935. He studied to be a Catholic priest but abandoned his vocation to take up teaching and writing. He is the author of numerous works...
Out of Ireland
AuthorChristopher J. Koch
ISBN0749320389
A leader of the Young Ireland rebellion of 1948, Robert Devereux is an Irish gentleman who is prepared to hazard a life of privilege in the fight for his country's freedom. Transported to Van Diemen's Land as a political prisoner, he enters a life that greatly changes him, falling in love with a young Irish...
The Nargun and the Stars
AuthorPatricia Wrightson
Few books had as profound an impact on me when I was growing up. This haunting tale of a lonely boy discovering an ancient stone Nargun, a creature straight from Aboriginal mythology, on his uncle's rural property had me spellbound. It still does. Wrightson, who died in 2010, was criticised for using...
The Timeless Land
AuthorEleanor Dark
ISBN0006160166
4.5★ (Read Sept 2018)
“The hardly endurable heat of the day had culminated again in a storm, and even to a less lively imagination than Tench’s it might have seemed that all the evil of earth and heaven was let loose, and some reckless spirit of self-destruction in the settlement lifting itself...
Warrior Scarlet
AuthorRosemary Sutcliff
ISBN0374482446
This is the story of Drem, a boy of the Bronze Age, who wishes to take his Warrior Scarlet, the kilt that signifies that he is a full, adult member of the Tribe. Alas, he has a withered right arm, so the oddas are against him.

Warrior Scarlet is, like most of Rosemary Stucliff's books, beautifully...
Poor Fellow My Country
AuthorXavier Herbert
ISBN0002215888
In Poor Fellow, My Country, Xavier Herbert returns to the region made his own in Capricornia: Northern Australia. Ranging over a period of some six years, the story is set during the late 1930s and early 1940s; but it is not so much a tale of this period as Herbert's analysis and indictment of the steps by...
Silver Brumby Kingdom
AuthorElyne Mitchell
Re-read!

The conclusion of Baringa and Lightning's story and another excellent book in the Silver Brumby Series!

Baringa is coming into his own power and slowly making a herd for himself when disaster strikes and he must set off to find the one he loves most in the world. While Lightning...
Fortunes of Richard Mahony
AuthorHenry Handel Richardson
ISBN0848259637
Set in Australia during the gold-mining boom, this remarkable trilogy is one of the classics of Australian literature.
Henry Handel Richardson’s great literary achievement, comprising the novels Australia Felix, The Way Home and Ultima Thule, weaves together many themes. Richard Mahony,...
Power Without Glory
AuthorFrank J. Hardy
Power Without Glory caused a sensation when it was released, leading to a famous court case. It is a thinly veiled description of the rise to power of real life figure John Wren (in the book 'John West').

Some other people alluded to in the book include Tommy Bent, Sir Samuel Gillott, the gangster...
The Wombles
AuthorElisabeth Beresford
ISBN0140305726
Ahhhhhh. What a satisfying bedtime read.

I never heard of the Wombles until I ran across them 15 yrs ago or so on Nick at Nite. The charming short films were cute without being twee, funny without being obvious, and I loved them immediately. Only recently did I find out there were books!! And the...
Rumpole's Last Case
AuthorJohn Mortimer
ISBN0140126953
Rumpole is on the job again, with his taste for claret, his penchant for poetry, and his reputation of a good story. This time, several interesting cases of murder and suspicious doings pass through chambers.

Contents:
“Rumpole and the Blind Tasting”;
“Rumpole and the Old,...
Coonardoo
AuthorKatharine Susannah Prichard
ISBN0207132178
Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained form childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such, destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. The love between Coonardoo and Hugh, which so shocked its readers when the book was first published in 1929, is never acknowledged...
Ned Kelly
AuthorRobert Drewe
ISBN0142003158
The first novel written about the bushcountry gunslinger who was both the national hero and devil incarnate of Australia, Ned Kelly imagines the inner life of a figure described by historian Manning Clark as "a wild ass of a man, snarling, roaring and frothing like a ferocious beast when the tamer entered...
The Mountain
AuthorDrusilla Modjeska
ISBN1741666503
In 1968, Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with his Dutch wife, Rika, to study and film an isolated village high in the mountains. The villagers' customs and art have been passed down through...
Come in Spinner
AuthorDymphna Cusack
ISBN0207197563
The book opens with a stuck lift and an Aussie injured soldier working as a liftman playing a two-up game with some American soldiers (I had to look up this game myself, it’s to do with spinning/throwing coins). Hence, the title Come In Spinner. These soldiers themselves are not the main characters...
A Little Bush Maid
AuthorMary Grant Bruce
ISBN0706355954
Billabong, a large cattle and sheep property in the Australian countryside, is home to twelve-year-old Norah Linton, her widowed father, David, and her older brother, Jim. Norah's prim and proper aunts, who live in the city, consider she is in danger of "growing up wild" - riding all over Billabong...
Little Polar Bear Finds a Friend
AuthorHans de Beer
ISBN0785799796
Wandering near his home one day, Lars the little polar bear is captured by hunters looking to find animals for the zoo. With the help of a friendly Walrus and a little brown bear named Bea, he escapes from captivity, setting out (once again) to get home. Bea, separated from her parents, comes along with...
The Willows and Beyond
AuthorWilliam Horwood
ISBN0312244975
The River Bank friends are getting older, and begin to pass the torch to the younger generation. Badger has his long-lost Grandson, Toad has adopted a distant toad cousin from France as his ward, and Mole has his Nephew to carry on the family traditions. Now Rat hears from an old friend from long ago, the...
The Secret of Hanging Rock
AuthorJoan Lindsay
Joan Lindsay's best-selling novel Picnic at Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period drawn with loving nostalgia. The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged to know the solution....
Heart of Gold
AuthorMichael Pryor
ISBN1741661307
At a loss after finishing their end-of-year exams, Aubrey and George travel to the Gallian capital, Lutetia, where it so happens that the lovely Caroline is studying natural history.

Aubrey wants to pursue a cure for his condition - though his family have other ideas, and he's soon burdened...
Amy Foster
AuthorJoseph Conrad
ISBN1406922242
Amy Foster, a short story by Joseph Conrad, reveals the great range and depth of the master’s ability.

Though a short story, or novella, the language is tight and the imagery is thick with multiple meanings and the story reads slow and pregnant with interpretations. The most ready to mind...
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