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The Secret River
by Kate Grenville
The Orange Prize-winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, The Secret River is the story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. London, 1806. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what... (more)
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Mutant Message Down Under
by Marlo Morgan
Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aborigines to accompany them on walkabout, the woman makes a four-month-long journey and learns how they... (more)
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Walkabout
by James Vance Marshall
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is the story an adolescent girl and her eight-year-old brother, sole survivors of an air crash in the Australian desert. They meet an Aborigine boy who cannot speak any English but shows them how to stay alive.
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
by Doris Pilkington
Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-wining author Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement.... (more)
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The Lieutenant
by Kate Grenville
As a boy, Daniel Rooke was always an outsider. At school, he learned to hide his clever thoughts from his cruel peers; at home, his parents were bemused by their bookish son. Daniel could only hope - against all the evidence - that he would one day find his place in life. By 1788, Daniel has become Lieutenant Rooke, astronomer with the First Fleet as it lands on the unknown shores of New South Wales. As the... (more)
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The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
Part adventure story, part philosophical essay, this extraordinary book takes Bruce Chatwin into the heart of Australia on a search for the source and meaning of man's restless nature.
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My Place
by Sally Morgan
This powerful autobiography of three generations of Aborigines by one of their own is an "historical document which should be on every black studies and women's studies course round the world . . . a wonderfully luminous and entertaining prose poem."--New York Times.
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The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction.
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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
by Julia Blackburn
In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating, true story in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Barry Lopez.
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NO FOOTPRINTS IN THE BUSH (Scribner Crime Classics)
by Arthur Upfield
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Inspector Bonaparte: Book 6
The Bone is Pointed
by Arthur William Upfield
Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care. But Bony is determined to follow the cold trail and smoke out some answers.
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Broken Shore: Book 1
The Broken Shore
by Peter Temple
Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won’t be long before he is recognized as what he really is—one of the nation’s finest writers, period. Born in South Africa, Temple is writing a dynamic kind of literary thriller that ultimately defies classification. The Broken Shore , his eighth novel, revolves around big-city detective Joe Cashin. Shaken by a scrape with... (more)
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Golden Urchin
by Madeleine Brent
Set in the Victorian era, Brent's enjoyable ninth romantic suspense novel combines a dauntless heroine with a generous serving of adventure and a dollop of amorous intrigue. The Australian outback is a bone-dry wilderness to those unaccustomed to its relentless hardship. Luke Bowman would have died there when his crooked partner left him wounded had it not been for the ministrations of an English girl brought up... (more)
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Inspector Bonaparte: Book 4
Mr. Jelly's Business
by Arthur William Upfield
(aka: Murder Down Under)
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In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller "A Walk in the Woods." "In A Sunburned Country" is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest,... (more)
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Inspector Bonaparte: Book 23
Bony and the Black Virgin
by Arthur William Upfield
(aka: The Torn Branch)
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The Bushman Who Came Back (Inspector Napoleon Mystery)
by Arthur William Upfield
A woman is slain and her young daughter has vanished deep in the Australian outback. It is up to Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte to discover whether Ole Fren Yorkey, a half-crazed wanderer, is a killer and solve this dangerous riddle.
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Angus & Robertson Classics)
by Thomas Keneally
When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman the backlash from both Jimmie's tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events. As Jimmie tries to survive between two cultures, tensions build reaching a head when the Newbys, Jimmie's white employers, try to break up his marriage. The Newby women are murdered and Jimmie flees, pursued by police and vigilantes.
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The Dreaming
A Novel of Australia
by Barbara Wood
Recently orphaned, Joanna Drury, the granddaughter of Outback missionaries, travels to Australia to begin her life anew and to uncover the generations-old curse that has plagued her family. Reprint.
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Tally Nowata: Book 1
Leave No Trace
by Hannah Nyala
Longitude: 132° Latitude: 19° Date: December 7 Temp: 121° Fahrenheit, 10 A.M. Paul's been gone now for eight days. He was only supposed to be gone for the afternoon, off to the airport to pick up Josie. But he didn't come back. They didn't come back. Not that day. Not in the seven that came after. And now I'm quickly running out of food and water. I must leave our camp. I must find them. I must... (more)

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