Aussie Readers discussion

Can anyone recommend me some good Australian written fantasy books for a friend?

Juliet Marillier lives in Australia (she was born in New Zealand) and she's a great fantasy writer. I loved Heart's Blood and the Blackthorn and Grim series particularly. The first one is Dreamer's Pool.

One of our members here, Jeanette O'Hagan, writes great fantasy books. I can especially recommend Akrad's Children.

NR Eccles-Smith also has a good YA fantasy series. The first book is Kinseeker.

I don't mind the Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan. The Magicians' Guild, The Novice, The High Lord

Lynne wrote: "Juliet Marillier lives in Australia (she was born in New Zealand) and she's a great fantasy writer. I loved Heart's Blood and the Blackthorn and Grim series partic..."

Thank you! She is a fan of Juliet Marillier, so I will pass on the other recommendations and hopefully she likes those too!

Second Juliet Marillier; recently finished her The Harp of Kings trilogy which was fun.

I've also enjoyed Jo Spurrier's Black Sun trilogy (Winter Be My Shield being the first), Kylie Chan's White Tiger series and the Medoran Chronicles by Lynette Noni (Akarnae)

Rachel wrote: "Can anyone recommend me some good Australian written fantasy books for a friend?"

Leonie Rogers writes fabulous fantasy Rachel! The Frontier trilogy which starts with Frontier Incursion And Amethyst Pledge which is first in the The Albatar Chronicles series.

Brenda wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Can anyone recommend me some good Australian written fantasy books for a friend?"

Leonie Rogers writes fabulous fantasy Rachel! The Frontier trilogy which starts wi..."

Thanks so much. You have all managed to come up with recommendations that the sceptical fantasy buff hadn't heard of so that's a win! Sorry for creating multiple threads-no idea how that happened, but sometimes when I do GR on my ipad things go a but haywire!

No worries Rachel :)

You could try Sean Williams

Emily Rodda but she mostly does childrens books,
Isobelle Carmody does YA
Jay Kristoff (I haven't gotten around to reading him yet but he's very highly recommended)

Laefiren wrote: "Emily Rodda but she mostly does childrens books,
Isobelle Carmody does YA
Jay Kristoff (I haven't gotten around to reading him yet but he's very highly recommended)"

Emily Rodda
Isobelle Carmody
Jay Kristoff

Alison Croggon wrote a fantasy series called The Books of Pellinor starting with The Gift (or The Naming in the US). She is also a poet.