Australia:
Fiction Set "Down Under"

The fiction titles listed here are set in Australia and, for the most part, are written by Australian authors. The pound key – “#” – indicates non-Australian authors. If you need help finding these titles or would like more information about Australian literature, settings, or authors, Ask Readers Services!

Natives and Exotics, Jane Alison

Darkness Rising: A Dark Angels Novel*, Keri Arthur

The Salt Letters, Christine Balint

Flirting With Trouble, Elizabeth Bevarly

Call Waiting, Dianne Blacklock

Theft: A Love Story, Peter Carey

Coup d’État*, Ben Coes#

Elizabeth Costello, J. M. Coetzee#

Candy, Luke Davies

The Lost Dog, Michelle de Kretser

Blood Moon*, Garry Disher

Cassie’s Rose, Elizabeth Doyle#

Wanting, Richard Flanagan

Wildflower Hill, Kimberley Freeman

The Paperbark Shoe, Goldie Goldbloom

Wolf in Tiger’s Stripes, Victoria Gordon#

Dead Man’s Chest: A Phryne Fisher Mystery*, Kerry Greenwood

The Lieutenant, Kate Grenville

Gunshot Road*, Adrian Hyland

The Dead Path, Stephen M. Irwin

License To Dream, Anna Jacobs

Death Most Definite, Trent Jamieson

Loving Lucy, Noelene Jenkinson

Sorry, Gail Jones

Office of Innocence, Thomas Keneally

The World Beneath, Cate Kennedy

The Treatment and the Cure, Peter Kocan

To Love Anew, Bonnie Leon#

The Good Parents, Joan London

The Touch, Colleen McCullough

At Home With the Templetons, Monica McInerney

Jacaranda Vines, Tamara McKinley

Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan#

Feeling Sorry for Celia, Jaclyn Moriarty

What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty

The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton

Fetish, Tara Moss

Tongues of Serpents, Naomi Novik#

The Reasons I Won’t Be Coming: Stories, Elliot Perlman

Rifling Paradise, Jem Poster#

Outback Hero, Elisabeth Rose

Fire Fire, Eva Sallis

Truth, Peter Temple#

Behind the Moon, Hsu-Ming Teo

The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas

Without a Backward Glance, Kate Veitch

Liar, Liar, Gabrielle Williams

Breath, Tim Winton

Carpentaria, Alexis Wright

After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, Evie Wyld

*part of a series

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