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"

In Bloom
Arborescence
Dark Desert Road
Wild Dark Shore
The Heir Apparent
An Academic Affair
Here One Moment
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
Mad Mabel
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
Apples Never Fall
Darling Girls
The Sirens
A Far-Flung Life
The Soulmate
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)
Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief (Ernest Cunningham #4)
Stone Yard Devotional
The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
The Light Between Oceans
In a Sunburned Country
Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)
The Thorn Birds
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
The Lost Man
A Town Like Alice
Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)
The Husband's Secret
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Hanging Rock, #1)
Cloudstreet
The Forgotten Garden
The Secret River
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayThe Rosie Project by Graeme Simsionएकादेशमा [Ekadeshma] by Sanu Sharmaविप्लवी [Biplavi] by Sanu Sharma
Books by Australian Authors
795 books — 350 voters
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShutePicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayThe Secret River by Kate GrenvilleThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Fictitious Australia
467 books — 120 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCloudstreet by Tim WintonA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShuteThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughTomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
Best Modern Australian Literature
563 books — 672 voters
In and Out of Step by Christine M. KnightLife Song by Christine M. KnightSong Bird by Christine M. KnightThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakJasper Jones by Craig Silvey
Great Australian novels
334 books — 131 voters


Julie  Murphy
Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory. ...more
Julie Murphy, Great Barrier Reef Under Threat

Ethel Turner
None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.
Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians

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