Secondhand Australian Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2821

Secondhand Australian Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2821

Twenty-two titles spanning six decades of Australian fiction, from George Johnston's beloved My Brother Jack and Roger McDonald's 1915 to Peter Carey's Amnesia and Christos Tsiolkas's The Slap. Four Roger McDonald titles and three from Tom Keneally give the box exceptional depth, with Elizabeth Jolley, Robert Drewe, Angelo Loukakis, and David Foster representing the serious literary tradition alongside Di Morrissey, Rachael Treasure, and a Text Classics edition of Eleanor Spence's Lillipilly Hill.

1. The Ballad of Desmond Kale — Roger McDonald — McDonald's Miles Franklin Award-winning novel, following a colonial shoemaker's obsessive quest to reclaim his prized merino flock from a powerful squatter across the wild landscape of early New South Wales.
2. My Brother Jack — George Johnston — Johnston's classic and autobiographical novel of Melbourne between the wars, tracing the diverging lives of two brothers with unsettling honesty about the Australian masculine ideal and the cost of escaping it.
3. Three Cheers for the Paraclete — Thomas Keneally — An early Keneally novel set in a Catholic seminary, in which a young priest's attempts to engage honestly with contemporary moral questions bring him into sharp conflict with Church authority.
4. The Glade within the Grove — David Foster — Foster's exuberant and demanding novel, set in a Blue Mountains hippie commune and drawing on Celtic mythology, environmental politics, and Foster's characteristically extravagant prose style.
5. Letter to Constantine — Joan London — London's debut short story collection, establishing her quiet, precise, and emotionally resonant voice in fiction about women's lives, travel, and the complexities of human connection.
6. Sister Ships 
7. The Slap — Christos Tsiolkas — Tsiolkas's explosive and controversial bestseller, in which a single act of violence at a Melbourne backyard barbecue unravels the lives of the extended Greek-Australian family and friends surrounding it.
8. Jacko: The Great Intruder — Tom Keneally — A satirical novel in which an Australian television personality becomes a media sensation in America, with Keneally using the conceit to skewer celebrity culture, the global entertainment industry, and the idea of Australia itself.
9. Corroboree — Graham Masterton — A sweeping historical novel following an Irish immigrant family across the early decades of colonial Australia, bringing Masterton's epic storytelling ambition to bear on the making of a nation.
10. Faraway Hill — H.A. Lindsay — An Australian pastoral novel in the tradition of outback fiction, tracing the fortunes of settlers and station life against the vast and unforgiving interior landscape.
11. Tears of the Moon — Di Morrissey — A sweeping novel set against the beauty and drama of the Kimberley, weaving romance, family secrets, and Indigenous Australian culture across the generations.
12. Jillaroo — Rachael Treasure — Treasure's hugely popular debut novel, following a young woman determined to work the land as a jillaroo on a New South Wales sheep station despite the resistance of the men around her.
13. 1915 — Roger McDonald — McDonald's acclaimed and deeply affecting novel of two young Australians at Gallipoli, one of the finest accounts of the First World War in Australian literature and the basis for a landmark ABC television series.
14. The Sugar Mother — Elizabeth Jolley — Jolley's darkly comic novel in which a middle-aged academic wife is drawn into a bizarre surrogacy arrangement while her husband is away, exploring isolation, desire, and the strange accommodations people make for one another.
15. Melba — .
16. Bettany's Book — Tom Keneally — A two-timeline novel in which a journalist uncovering the story of a nineteenth-century colonial pioneer in New South Wales and Sudan finds unexpected connections to the crises of the present day.
17. For the Patriarch — Angelo Loukakis — Loukakis's debut novel, tracing the lives of a Greek immigrant family in suburban Sydney across the generations as the patriarch's authority is slowly tested by Australian life.
18. Vernacular Dreams — Angelo Loukakis — A novel examining the collision between immigrant ambition and suburban Australian reality, told with the psychological precision that distinguishes all of Loukakis's work.
19. The Drowner — Robert Drewe — Drewe's lyrical and haunting novel set in the waterless West Australian interior, following a hydraulic engineer whose obsessive quest to bring water to the arid land becomes entangled with desire and loss.
20. Lillipilly Hill — Eleanor Spence — A Text Classics edition of Spence's beloved 1960 Australian children's novel, in which a family moves to an old property called Lillipilly Hill and a young girl discovers the bush, its creatures, and the complexities of the past.
21. Rough Wallaby — Roger McDonald — McDonald's novel of youth and the Australian bush, following a young man through remote landscape and fractured relationships with the spare atmospheric intensity that marks all his fiction.
22. Amnesia — Peter Carey — Carey's late and politically charged novel about an Australian hacker who releases a program freeing prisoners in both Australia and America, uncovering through a journalist's fragmented account the deep history of American interference in Australian politics.