Favourite Australian Fiction
Discover the best Australian fiction with our curated list of favorite books. Explore top-rated novels and timeless classics from Australia's finest authors.
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Disquiet
by Julia Leigh
Accompanied by her two children, Olivia leaves her violent marriage and returns to her childhood home in rural France, where she is joined by her …
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Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australians and an unflinching examination of the human heart's capacity …
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The Ghost's Child
by Sonya Hartnett
When a mysterious child appears in her living room one day, the elderly Maddy tells him the story of her love for the wild and …
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The Spare Room
by Helen Garner
A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women—one dying, the other called to care for her—from an internationally acclaimed and …
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Butterfly
by Sonya Hartnett
Struggling with insecurity stemming from her cruel-spirited and fickle friends and her own adolescent awkwardness, 14-year-old Plum worshipfully emulates a glamorous young wife who lives …
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Piano Lessons
by Anna Goldsworthy
Anna Goldsworthy was nine years old when she met Eleanora Sivan, the charismatic Russian émigré and world-class pianist who became her piano teacher. Piano Lessons …
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Every Move You Make
by David Malouf
Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his …
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An Imaginary Life
by David Malouf
In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the …
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The Secret River
by Kate Grenville
"London, 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until …
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The Transit of Venus
by Shirley Hazzard
"The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century." - The Paris Review Finalist for the National Book Award …
