Books Set in Australia.

ahef1963: An important (one might say seminal) book in my development: the first time I read a book with sex in it.

ahef1963: A real favourite. I've read it so many times. Going to Alice Springs is a must-do for my life.

ahef1963: Fascinating, creepy, excellent work. Lindsay's handling of atmosphere is so skilled.

ahef1963: A travelogue. Hilarious and interesting.

ahef1963: Possibly my favourite book of all time.

ahef1963: Takes place partly in Australia, partly in England.

bluepiano: Not the subject of yet the basis of the excellent! novel is narrator's childhood in Australia.

ahef1963: If you read this at Project Gutenberg it gives an excellent bio of Capt. Cook which is almost as good as his journals.

bluepiano: A very very good hoax that caused a great upset in the then-suffocatingly provincial Australian literary circle.

ahef1963: The classic Australian tale of seven children. It's decidedly brutal; no way would I let children read this.

ahef1963: Another favourite. It's huge and dense but the rewards are ample.

ahef1963: Possibly the most respected and certainly the most thorough history of the founding of Australia.

ahef1963: Jo Nesbo's Norwegian detective goes to solve a series of murders in Sydney.