Set in Melbourne in 1896, this novel follows a young curate as he finds lodgings in an artist's studio and has his religious principles thoroughly tested by his friend's parties, women and wine.
Australian
- Author:LINDSAY, NormanSummary:
- Author:GILL, AlanSummary:
Some 50,000 young people were brought to Australia under the youth migration scheme. Its aim was simply to fill Australia's empty space with young people of white, essentially Angol-Saxon stock. This book tells their collective...
- Author:Touchell, DianneSummary:
Creepy is a boy who watches from the shadows keenly observing and caustically commentating on human folly. Maud is less certain. A confused girl with a condition that embarrasses her parents and assures her isolation. Hilarious and...
- Author:THOMAS, AtholSummary:
True stories of the Kimberley region in the outback of Western Australia.
- Author:BLAINEY, GeoffreySummary:
An account of daily life in Australia from the gold rushes to World War I.