Australia

Australia (/ɒˈstreɪliə/, /ə-/, colloquially /-jə/), officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia, is an Oceanian country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. ...more

New Releases Tagged "Australia"

An Academic Affair
The Heir Apparent
The Mushroom Tapes
Kill Your Boss
Mischance Creek (Hirsch series 5)
Earthquake: the election that shook Australia
Cinder House
Last One Out
I Am Not Happy! (Critter Complaints)
Wild Dark Shore
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret (Ernest Cunningham, #3)
The Heir Apparent
Here One Moment
The Ex-Wives Club (Alibis Collection, #2)
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
Mad Mabel
An Academic Affair
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
Apples Never Fall
Darling Girls
The Sirens
Last One Out
Stone Yard Devotional
The Good Sister
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Best Modern Australian Literature
562 books — 669 voters

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Australian Children's Literature
416 books — 200 voters
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Historical fiction: Australia
222 books — 104 voters

The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
The Light Between Oceans
In a Sunburned Country
Big Little Lies
The Thorn Birds
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
The Lost Man
A Town Like Alice
Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Hanging Rock, #1)
The Husband's Secret
Cloudstreet
The Forgotten Garden
The Secret River
The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Peter Carey
But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. ... And thus fled to her room. There she wept, bitterly, an ugly sound punctuated by great gulps. She could not stop herself. She could hear his footsteps in the passage outside. He walked up and down, up and down. 'Come in,' she prayed. 'Oh dearest, do come in.' But he did not come in. He would not come in. This was the man she had practically contracted to give away her fortune to. He offered to marry h ...more
Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

Lance Morcan
To understand the Dreamtime, you must understand that we do not own the land. The land is our mother and she owns and nurtures us.
Lance Morcan, White Spirit

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