Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, He...
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50 Must Read Australian Novels
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Keoh K50 Must Read Australian Novels
'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth Cracknell
Three of Ruth Park's best loved books – Missus, The Harp in the South and Poor M...
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (1879-1969) was an Australian artist. He was a prolific artist, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist and scale modeler, as well as being a ...
This semi-autobiographical novel follows the narrator, David Meredith, through his childhood and adolescence in interwar Melbourne through to adulthood and his journalism ...
At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy.
The boy is not his own.
It's a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of ev...
Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tale of Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl - passionate, endearing, stubborn, h...
A captain who has lost his wife remarries a much younger woman to provide his six children with a new mother. Together, the couple had another child, making seven. The cap...
Story of a young girl growing up in Nazi Germany narrated by Death. Told from a perspective of an fascinated observer, the girl's interaction with family and friends again...
On St Valentine's day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return...
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 for sorro...