| Vanishing Points
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by Thea Astley
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A personal
paradise is threatened by a conglomerate with dreams of tourism
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| Oscar & Lucinda
|
by Peter Carey
|
A tale
of love and commerce among social misfits in Victorian Australia
|
| The Whispering
Wall
|
by Patricia Carlon
|
An eerie
tale of a paralized woman who overhears a murder being plotted
|
| The Heart of the
Continent
|
by Nancy Cato
|
A sweeping
saga of a mother and daughter in the Australian Outback
|
| Endpeace
|
by Jon Cleary
|
Inspector
Scobie Malone is featured in this witty series about the state of crime
in Sidney
|
| The Service of
Clouds
|
by Delia Falconer
|
A memorable
tale of thwarted love between a romantic shop girl and a photographer
with the soul of a mystic from a young Australian writer
|
| The Grisly Wife
|
by Rodney Hall
|
A gripping
tale of fanaticism, murder, and religious cults in Colonial Australia
|
| The Custodians
|
by Nicholas Jose
|
A sweeping
tale of eight friends who show the many faces of contemporary Australian
culture
|
| A River Town
|
by Thomas Keneally
|
A warm
tale of an immigrant's efforts to assimilate the culture of his adopted
country
|
| The Conversations
at Curlow Creek
|
by David Malouf
|
A convict
awaiting execution and his hangman spend the night talking and discover
their lives are connected in most unexpected ways
|
| Cry of the Rain
Bird
|
by P. Shaw
|
An historic
tale of a young English couple who come to Australia with visions of paradise
but find something quite different
|
| Blueback
|
by Tim Winton
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| This slim
little fable tells the story of friendship, commitment, and love of nature
in a most enchanting way
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More fiction
set in Australia:
Women and Horses
by Candida Baker
The Back of Beyond by Barbara Bickmore
The Jacaranda Tree by Rebecca Brandewyne
Golden Urchin by Madeleine Brent
Exiles by Philip Caputo
The Clinker by Roger Carr
Dark Angel by John Dale
Getting Back by William Dietrich
The Drowner by Robert Drewe
The Back of Beyond by Stuart Fox
Alice Springs by Kikki Gemmell
The Great Trek by Zane Grey
The Black Opal by Victoria Holt
Oyster by Janet Turner Hospital
The Exiles by William Stuart Long
Stiff by Shane Maloney
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
The Villa Marini by Gloria Montero
Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
Promised Lands by Jane Rogers
Still Waters by Judith Saxton
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
The Dreaming by Barbara Wood
Leaning Towards Infinity by Sue Woolfe
This list was prepared
by the St. Charles Public Library, February 2000.
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