Power Without Glory
10 best books like Power Without Glory (Frank J. Hardy): Monkey Grip, My Brother Jack, Riders in the Chariot, They're a Weird Mob, Grand Days, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, For the Term of His Natural Life, Capricornia, Wake in Fright
| Author | Helen Garner |
| ISBN | 0140049533 |
In "Monkey Grip", Helen Garner charts the lives of a generation. Her characters are exploring new ways of loving and living - and nothing is harder than learning to love lightly. Nora and Javo are trapped in a desperate relationship. Nora's addiction is romantic love; Javo's is hard drugs. The harder...
| Author | George Johnston |
| ISBN | 0207187320 |
3.5 stars
It was only after I finished reading My Brother Jack by George Johnston that I discovered it had been the winner of the 1964 Miles Franklin award. To win, novels must be of the highest literary merit and present Australian life in any of its phases There is no question in my mind that this was...
| Author | Patrick White |
| ISBN | 1590170024 |
Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them...
| Author | Nino Culotta |
| ISBN | 0947116923 |
Giovanni 'Nino' Culotta is an Italian immigrant, who comes to Australia as a journalist, employed by an Italian publishing house, to write articles about Australians and their way of life for those Italians that might want to emigrate to Australia.
In order to learn about real Australians,...
| Author | Frank Moorhouse |
| ISBN | 1740510372 |
A contemporary romantic Australian masterpiece, Grand Days tells of the moral and sexual awakening of an idealistic young Australian woman working in the diplomatic corps in Europe in the aftermath of World War I.
On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood...
| Author | Thomas Keneally |
| ISBN | 0207197164 |
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...
| Author | Ray Lawler |
| ISBN | 0573615950 |
Ray LawlerCharacters:3 male, 4 female
Interior Set
This compelling Australian play was a success in London and was hailed by critics in New York for its vigor, integrity, and realistic portrayal of two itinerant cane cutters: Barney, a swaggering little scrapper, and Roo, a big...
| Author | Marcus Clarke |
| ISBN | 1406512036 |
“We convicts have the advantage over you gentlemen. You are afraid of death; we pray for it. It is the best thing that can happen to us. Die! They were going to hang me once. I wish they had. My God, I wish they had!”
For The Term Of His Natural Life is the best-known novel by Australian author,...
I first read Capricornia by Xavier Herbert (1901-1984) more than 30 years ago when I was majoring in English and was astonished at the scope and daring of the story. It’s a powerful exposé of race relations in Australia, delivered palatably in the form of a most engaging story. When I saw it in Dymocks...
Filmed as The Outback
The Film Ink series presents the novels that inspired the work of some of the most celebrated directors of our time. While each novel is first and foremost a classic in its own right, these books offer the dedicated cinephile a richer understanding of the most illustrious...
| Author | Jessica Anderson |
| ISBN | 0140069457 |
One of Australia’s most celebrated novels: one woman’s journey from Australia to London
Nora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to her childhood home at age seventy. Her life has taken her from a failed marriage in Sydney to freedom in London; she forged a modest...
| Author | Elizabeth Jolley |
| ISBN | 0140089012 |
"She wondered how Kathy could suddenly look dishonest. She had to realise that it was not sudden, that she had always dreaded a revelation of something not quite truthful."
Australian Gothic? Love it.
Hester, a lonely rich spinster takes on the beautiful 16 year orphan Kathy. Starved...
| Author | Henry Handel Richardson |
| ISBN | 0848259637 |
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,...
| Author | Geoffrey Blainey |
| ISBN | 0333338367 |
'One of the most illuminating books ever written on Australian history.' - The Bulletin
In "The Tyranny of Distance", an Australian classic that has been continuously in print since 1967, Geoffrey Blainey describes how distance and isolation have been central to Australia's history and...
| Author | Shane Maloney |
| ISBN | 1841955310 |
Murray Whelan thinks the everyday life of a political advisor is complicated enough: but now there are intimations of intrigue among the party powerful and his ex-wife is mounting a custody battle over his beloved son. So when you throw in a Turk snap-frozen in a local meat plant, drugs planted under...
| Author | Katharine Susannah Prichard |
| ISBN | 0207132178 |
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...
High-minded, independent, imaginative, Teresa Hawkins knows only one commandment: ‘Thou shalt love’. Emotionally starved by her ramshackle family, Teresa searches for fulfilment outside her stultifying life as a working girl in a large city. Obsessed with love and sex she pins her affection...
| Author | Donald Horne |
| ISBN | 0143180029 |
Pungent. Much of the analysis still applicable today 2015 with a conservative government in Canberra, a prime minister exhuming knighthoods on Australia Day. Is progress an illusion?
The chapter on Menzies, a valuable record for future reference.
The chapter 'Living with Asia'...
| Author | Dymphna Cusack |
| ISBN | 0207197563 |
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...
| Author | Thea Astley |
| ISBN | 0140121382 |
Like a deal of Astley's fiction, It's Raining in Mango is set in north Queensland, an inhospitable locale in many ways but one which the Laffey family of Mango find compelling and to which they are drawn back after their half-hearted forays into urban life. The book is written in the saga form, spanning...
| Author | D'Arcy Niland |
| ISBN | 0141186135 |
A shiralee is a swag, a burden, a bloody millstone - and that's what four-year-old Buster is to her father, Macauley. He takes the child on the road with him to spite his wife, but months pass and still no word comes to ask for the little girl back. Strangers to each other at first, father and daughter drift...
| Author | Ruth Park |
| ISBN | 0312000545 |
A truly Australian novel which depicts generational poverty in such a way that the reader is confronted with the reality of what poverty truly means.
I found it easy to picture my grandmother living during this time in Australian history. The dirt and pollution from the coal factories, the dull...
