The Tree Of Man

Author	Alexis Wright
ISBN	1920882176

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...

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	Kim Scott
ISBN	1405040440

Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In playful, musical prose, the book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers.

The...

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...

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Peter Carey

My previous experiences of Carey have been mixed. I really enjoyed True History of the Kelly Gang, but found both Oscar and Lucinda and Parrot and Olivier in America over-long and a little tedious, though both had their moments and were funny at times. When I saw the size of this one and the density of the...

Author	David Malouf
ISBN	0679749519

Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee

In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions.  In the mid-1840s...

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Xavier Herbert

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...

Author	Jan Jacob Slauerhoff
ISBN	9023652533

In "Het verboden rijk" (1932) van J. Slauerhoff raken twee verhalen bijna onontwarbaar verstrengeld. We bevinden ons beurtelings in de zestiende en in de twintigste eeuw. In het ene verhaal is de hoofdpersoon de romantische figuur Camoes, een 16e-eeuwse Portugese dichter, die vanwege zijn verboden...

Author	Thea Astley
ISBN	0140283803

In her flat above Drylands's newsagency, Janet Deakin is writing a book for the world's last reader. Little has changed in her 50 years, except for the coming of cable TV. Loneliness is almost a religion, and still everyone knows your business. But the town is being outmanoeuvred by drought and begins...

Author	Randolph Stow
ISBN	0140028358

Do not think less of anyone for hating this if they had to read it in high school. I had to as well and I despised this book. I actually grew up in Geraldton in the 70s and 80s and it seemed as though not much had changed since the 40s, excpept mabe for the war. Hated hated hated it. Trying to explain to some first...

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	Jessica Anderson
ISBN	0333179277

In the 1830s, the penal settlement of Moreton Bay on the Brisbane River is under the command of Patrick Logan. His administration has been denounced by the liberal press in Sydney, but he scorns such criticism. How can it harm him when he had governed according to the rules?

Flogged and brutalised,...

Author

Frank 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...

Author	Isaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN	0140186638

Libro del Nobel Isaac Singer, non del fratello più talentuoso Israel, che, come "la famiglia Moskat" e "Sosha", indaga ed esplora la comunità ebraica polacca; comunità a cui apparteneva il romanziere.
I temi narrati, la vita e le tradizioni ebraiche, sono quelli cari all'autore, e pure al...

Author	Cora Sandel
ISBN	0821407562

But a wound opened inside. Delight and melancholy welled up simultaneously from the depths of her mind. She could not understand why nor protect herself from them. They streamed over her together with the light, making her shrink with painful impatience. Tears came, God knows how. One moment she was...

Author

Christina Stead

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	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	David Marr
ISBN	0099998505

'I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster . . .' Patrick White

Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant...

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Antun Šoljan

Потрясающая книга, даже потрясающе безысходная книга! Гибрид "Замка" Кафки и "Чумы" сами знаете кого. Плюс вот эта вот восточная абсурдность, которая...