Land Down Under:
Baggage, by Emily Barr. Plume, 2003, 2002.
The Past is Another Country, by Lois Battle. Viking, 1990.
The Back of Beyond,by Barbara Bickmore. Kensington, 1994.
Call Waiting, by Dianne Blacklock. T. Dunne, 2003,
2002.
Oscar & Lucinda, by Peter Carey. Harper & Row, 1988.
Price of an Orphan, by Patricia Carlon. Soho,
1999, 1964.
Matrimonial Causes,
by Peter Corris. Dell, 1994.
The Secrets Within, by Emma Darcy. Mira, 1997.
The Drowner, by Robert Drewe. St. Martin's, 1997. 1996.
The Vines of Yarrabee, by Dorothy Eden. Coward-McCann, 1969.
The Service of Clouds, by Delia Falconer. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1998.
My Brilliant Career, by Miles Franklin. St. Martin's, 1980, 1901.
Inherit the Sun, by Maxwell Grant. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1981.
Pride of the Peacock, by Victoria Holt. Doubleday, 1976.
Oyster, by Janette Turner Hospital. Norton, 1998, 1996.
Snake, by Kate Jennings. Ecco, 1997.
The Playmaker, by Thomas Keneally. Simon & Schuster, 1987.
River Town, by Thomas Keneally. Talese, 1995.
Woman of the Inner Sea, by Thomas Keneally. Doubleday, 1993.
Kangaroo, by D. H. Lawrence. Penguin, 1983.
The Hero, by Louise Le Nay. Allen & Unwin, 1996.
The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough. Harper & Row, 1977.
Tim, by Colleen McCullough. Hall, 1974.
The Conversations at Curlow Creek, by David Malouf. Pantheon, 1996.
Remembering Babylon, by David Malouf. Pantheon, 1993.
Loving Daughters, by Olga Masters. Norton, 1993.
Tears of the Moon, by Di Morrissey. HarperPaperbacks, 1998, 1995.
Beautiful Lies, by Emilie Richards. Mira, 1999.
The Estuary, by Georgia Savage. Graywolf, 1993, 1987.
A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute. Morrow, 1971.
On the Beach, by Nevil Shute. Morrow, 1957.
Turning Back the Sun, by Colin Thubron. E. Burlingame, 1992.
Listening for Small Sounds, by Penelope Trevor. Allen & Unwin, 1996.
The Eye of the Storm, by Patrick White. Viking, 1973.
The Dreaming, by Barbara Wood. Random House, 1991.
Lina Pritchett thinks she is safe in Craggy Rock, one of the most
remote hamlets in Australia and that no one, not even her husband, will ever
find out that she i sreally Daisy Fraser, who supposedly committed suicide 10
years earlier while awaiting trial for the murder of four of her friends by
supplying them with tainted drugs. But her secret is about to be exposed when
she unexpectedly runs into her old best friend.
Decades after their days at St. Brigid's convent school, three women-Hollywood director
Megan, married Greta, and Sister Joan-reunite and struggle to rediscover themselves.
In 1938, with the world on the verge of war, Dr. Cassandra Clarke becomes the first woman to
serve in the Australian Flying Doctor Service, and finds herself torn between three very different
men.
Dissatisfied with her life as a teacher, Ally Tasker envies her
best friend Meg's seemingly idyllic (perfect job, perfect man, perfect child)
exitsence. But Meg is not as happy as she seems, and looks to handsome contractor
Matt Serrano, to inject some passion and spontaneity in her life.
Booker Prize-winning novel about Oscar, a defrocked Anglican priest
and Lucinda, who owns a glass factory because she thinks that industrialization
will bring about the liberation of women. The unlikely duo, who share a compulsion
for gambling, embark on a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across
the Outback. By the same author: The True History of the
Kelly Gang (2001, 2000), My Life as a Fake
(2003), Theft (2006).
Nine-year-old Johanny Bradford witnesses a murder, but no one believes
him because he has alwats been a trouble-maker with a habit of making up tall
tales. Then he digs up a piece of physical evidence that draws even more of
the killer's attention to himself. By the same author: The
Whispering Wall (1996, 1969), The Running Woman
(1998), The Unquiet Night (2000, 1965),
Death By Demonstration (2001, 1970), Hush,
It's a Game (2001, 1967), Who Are You, Linda Condrick?
(2002, 1962).
An electic mix of fantasy, horror, and science fiction by Australian writers new and old.
With only four months to live, ruthless Eleanor Vandelier plots to make sure her daughter,
Tamara, does not get her inheritance. Meanwhile, Tamara has a plan to destroy the mother who
never loved her, but which may also destroy the man who does.
In the late 1800s, Will, a Civil engineer, is the son of a "drowner"-a person who understands
the secrets of irrigation. He takes a job that involves laying a pipeline to carry water from Perth
to the desert interior where gold is being mined, water is in short supply, and typhoid a constant
danger.
An aristocratic English beauty who marries an ambitious and ruthless plantation owner isn't
prepared for the violence of the Australian wilderness.
Follows the coming-of-age of Eureka Jones, whose town of Katoomba springs to life once she
sees it through the eyes of photographer Harry Kitchings, for whom she bears a never-to-be-fulfilled passion.
Headstrong 16-year old Sybylla Melvyn is determined to live a life independent of the stagnant
life on her parents' dairy farm where her inevitable fate is to be either a teacher or a wife.
Epic story of daring and dynasty in the Australian Outback as lived through three generations of
the Carylon family.
Anxious to escape the resentment of her once wealthy family, a young woman enters into a
platonic marriage to the heir of an opal fortune and moves with him to Australia.
Outsiders once flocked to the remote town of Outer Maroo looking for the "truth" as interpreted
by a charismatic doomsday prophet named Oyster. Abruptly they stopped coming. Now, a year
later, few visitors come to Outer Maroo and nobody will talk about what happened at Oyster's
commune.
Contemptuous of her war-hero husband and feeling suffocated by life in a farm town, Irene
enters into a series of unfaithful liaisons.
In 1789, Lt. Ralph Clark is given the task of recruiting a cast of convicts to put on a production
of George Farquhar's Restoration Comedy "The Recruiting Officer."
In turn-of-the-century New South Wales, Tim Shea struggles with his own and society's demons
to make a life for his family.
Kate Gaffney-Kozinski flees her marriage to the Australian outback where she hides her identity
and finally comes into her own as a person.
A couple leave post-war Europe for the beauty of Australia where they become involved with the
leader of a political group called the Diggers.
With their mother dead and their father missing in action during World War I, Nonie and her
siblings are brought to live with their Aunt Ruth. In the year that passes Nonie learns how to
make sense of the adult world and how to give & take and to trust & love.
Epic saga depicting the lives and loves of the proud Cleary family, in particular the fiery
Meggie, whose life is haunted by her doomed love for a Catholic priest.
A middle-aged spinster begins a relationship with a strikingly handsome but retarded young
man.
In 1827, two men-one a convicted felon and the other the officer charged with hanging him at
dawn-spend a night in a hut speaking of their very different lives.
In the 1840s, cabin-boy Gemmy Fairley is washed up on the Queensland coast where he is found
by Aboriginals. Sixteen years later he is "rescued" and must assimilate back into white society.
After World War I, Una and Enid Herbert, two lively young women hungry for love are both
smitten by clergyman Colin Edwards.
Lily Barton, desperate to learn more of her forgotten past, finds her great-grandmother's diary
which reveals the secret behind a love so enduring that nothing could destroy the power of its
magic.
To be on the safe side, Liana Robertson locks a century-old pearl said to be "cursed" in a vault.
When her son disappears with it, Liana and her ex-husband must put aside their bitterness to
find the boy and the enemy determined to reclaim the dangerous treasure.
In trying to cope with the death of her husband, Vinnie Beaumont unwittingly becomes estranged
from her only child, Clare. Vinnie attempts a new beginning by working at an exotic hotel
dubbed "The Bananas," where she encounters all manner of eccentric personalities.
Having survived immense cruelty as a Japanese prisoner-of-war in the South Pacific, Jean Paget
returns to pay her debt of gratitude to the Malayans and to the Australian soldier who befriended
her.
The people of Melbourne deal with the reality of approaching death as the fallout from a recent
atomic war in the north approaches.
A young doctor is dispatched to a frontier town where mutual fear sets native blacks against
whites, and when two bodies wash up in the river, apparently murdered by aborigines, racial
hatreds build. Violence erupts after a baffling disease starts rumors of poison and plague.
Joss is a young girl trapped in the tensions of her parents' tangled marriage and at night she lies
in bed listening for small sounds to determine that mood of her unpredictable and violent father.
Blessed at birth with wealth, charm, and beauty, Elizabeth Hunter has wrecked havoc all her life
with her constant demands for love and her inability to give it. Now at 80, she prepares to die
and receives a string of visitors, including her middle-aged children who have returned from the
other side of the world.
In 1871, after the death of her parents, Joanna Drury leaves her native India for Australia to
unlock the secret past that haunted her mother.
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