Lists and Suggestions
List: Own Stories: Australian Fiction

The Light Between Oceans
Stedman, M. L.
"A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lig...

What Alice Forgot
Moriarty, Liane.
"Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imag...

The Forgotten Garden
Morton, Kate, 1976-
"A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone ...

Hello from the Gillespies
McInerney, Monica, author.
"For the past thirty-three years, Angela Gillespie has sent to friends and family around the wo...

Lost & Found
Davis, Brooke, author.
Follows a shared encounter between an abandoned 7-year-old, a widowed shut-in and a nursing home esc...

Burial Rites
Kent, Hannah, 1985-
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who...

Cloudstreet
Winton, Tim.
Two families marked by tragedy are thrown together in a rambling house with a past. The Lambs and th...

The Night Guest
McFarlane, Fiona, 1978-
"An elderly Australian woman lets a mysterious and possibly sinister caretaker into her beach-s...
True History of the Kelly Gang
Carey, Peter, 1943-
The legend of Ned Kelly, notorious outlaw and bank robber, as written in his own words for an infant...

The Man Who Loved Children
Stead, Christina, 1902-1983.
Every family lives in an evolving story, told by all its members, inside a landscape of portentous e...

Bitter Greens
Forsyth, Kate, 1966- author.
"After Margherita's father steals parsley from the walled garden of the courtesan Selena L...

The Broken Shore
Temple, Peter, 1946-
"The Broken Shore, Temple's eighth novel, revolves around big-city detective Joe Cashin. S...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Flanagan, Richard, 1961- author.
"A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man-- an Australian surgeon-- from a priso...

The Rosie Project
Simsion, Graeme C.
Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all h...

The Spare Room
Garner, Helen, 1942-
"In her first novel in fifteen years, Helen Garner writes about the joys and limits of female f...

The Thorn Birds
McCullough, Colleen, 1937-2015.
Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forb...

White Gardenia
Alexandra, Belinda, author.
"From internationally bestselling author Belinda Alexandra comes a sweeping, emotional journey ...

Year of Wonders
Brooks, Geraldine.
This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," i...

Walking on Trampolines
Whiting, Frances, author.
The young life of good-girl Lulu is irrevocably shaped by unconventional best friend, Annabelle, wit...

The Slap
Tsiolkas, Christos, 1965-
At a festive barbecue in the Melbourne suburb a man slaps the child of another couple, triggering a ...