Books set in Australia (75)


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Growing Up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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'No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.' 'The mantle of "queer migrant" compelled me to keep going - to go further.' 'I never "came out" to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.' 'All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.' 'I became acutely aware of the parts of myself that were unpalatable to queers who grew up in the city.' 'My queerness was born in a hot dry land that was never ceded.' 'Even now, I sometimes think that I don't know my own desire.' Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, Growing Up Queer in Australiaasse... continue

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Homecoming by Kate Morton EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping saga that begins with a shocking crime that echoes across continents and generations. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959 At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a... continue

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Honeybee by Craig Silvey EN

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The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones.

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How We Love : Notes on a Life by Clementine Ford EN

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Clementine Ford is a person who has loved deeply, strangely and with curiosity. She is fascinated by love and the multiple ways it makes its home in our hearts and believes that the way we continue to surrender ourselves to love is an act of great faith and bravery. This tender and lyrical memoir explores love in its many forms through Clementine's own experiences. With clear eyes and an open heart, she writes about losing her adored mother far too young, about the pain and confusion of first love - both platonic and romantic - and the joy and heartache of adult love. She writes movingly about... continue

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I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak EN

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From the author of The Book Thief comes this darkly funny and ultimately uplifting thriller which proves that anyone can be extraordinary. Ed Kennedy is just your less-than-average Joe who is hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. But after he single-handedly manages to catch a bank robber, he receives a playing card in the mail: the Ace of Diamonds. This is the first message. Four more will follow. But before this particular card game can end, Ed will be changed forever . . . Will Audrey love the man he has become?

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Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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Charlie Bucktin is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the mining town of Corrigan. Jasper takes Charlie to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery.

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La bofetada by Christos Tsiolkas ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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En una barbacoa de un barrio residencial, un hombre abofetea a un niño que no es hijo suyo. Este acontecimiento tiene un asombroso efecto de rebote sobre un grupo de personas, amigos y parientes, que se ven influidos de manera directa o indirecta por la bofetada.

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Limberlost by Robbie Arnott EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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The much-anticipated third novel by award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott, Limberlost is a story of family and land, loss and hope, fate and the unknown, and love and kindness

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Love and Virtue by Diana Reid EN

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Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist Winner of the ABIA Book of the Year Award Winner of the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction of the Year Winner ABA Booksellers Choice Award for Fiction Winner of the MUD Literary Prize Shortlisted for The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Fiction Shortlisted Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction Shortlisted ABIA Matt Richell Award New Writer of the Year 'set to be one of the year's most talked about books' - Vogue Australia 'a great read that will become an Australian classic' - Sydney Morning He... continue

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Love Objects by Emily Maguire EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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A stunning, simply told story of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-shortlisted An Isolated Incident.