The Best Australian Stories 2013 by Kim Scott
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Category: Australian Literature
'A story can lure us into gaps and spaces that feel sacred in their silence.' Kim Scott In The Best Australian Stories 2013, Kim Scott assembles the most exceptional short fiction of the last year and invites readers to build 'a rare and intimate relationship' with these talented writers, one that is 'e ...Show more
That Deadman Dance: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011 by Kim Scott
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Category: Australian Literature
Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance - those stiff movements, those jerking limbs - as if he'd learned it from their very own selves; but with him it was a dance of life, a lively dance for people to do together... Told ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
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Category: Australian Literature
Gilgameshis the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choose ...Show more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin: AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS by Louis de Bernieres
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Category: Australian Literature
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be ...Show more
The Wrong Girl by Zoe Foster Blake
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Category: Australian Literature
"Sometimes you don't know what you want until someone else has it. Lily needs a break. A man break. She hadn't exactly meant to sleep with her friend, Pete, and she certainly hadn't expected him to confess his love - for another girl - the next morning. If men were going to behave like such pigs, well, ...Show more
The Memory Artist by Katherine Brabon
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Category: Australian Literature
Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2016...How can hope exist when the past is so easily forgotten?..Pasha Ivanov is a child of the Freeze, born in Moscow during Brezhnev's repressive rule over the Soviet Union. As a small child, Pasha sat at the kitchen table night after night as his parent ...Show more
Music and Freedom by Zoe Morrison
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Category: Australian Literature
I have no use for forgiveness, not yet. But other ideas like that, kindness, for example, I think that is fundamental. Resurrection; I like that too. And love, of course, love, love, love.'Alice Murray learns to play the piano aged three on an orange orchard in rural Australia. Recognising her daughter? ...Show more
The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay
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Category: Australian Literature | Series: POTATO FACTORY
Ikey Solomon's favourite saying is also his way of doing business. And in the business of thieving, he's very successful indeed. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey from thriving nineteen ...Show more
Happiness Jar by Samantha Tidy
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Category: Australian Literature
Rachel Hudson succumbs to cystic fibrosis at age twenty-seven, leaving behind secrets that push each of her remaining family to question what it is they want from life, and from each other. Her father Brian, a Vietnam veteran struggling with the long-term effects of the war, has been missing ever since ...Show more
Fortune's Favourites (Masters of Rome Series: Book 3) by Colleen McCullough
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Category: Australian Literature | Series: Masters of Rome S.
The third novel in the epic Masters of Rome series. Fortune's Favourites witnesses the power, mastery and cunning of two enigmatic rulers of Rome - Sulla, returning from exile, and the 22-year-old Pompey, who designates himself Magnus 'the Great'. And in the background is the young soldier, Caesar, who ...Show more
An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton
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Category: Australian Literature
Jerra and his best mate Sean set off in a beaten-up old VW to go camping on the coast. Jerra's friends and family want to know when he will finish university, when he will find a girl. But they don't understand about Sean's mother, Jewel, or the bush or the fish with the pearl. They think he needs a job ...Show more