Books like A Fringe of Leaves
In 1836, Ellen Roxburgh, a Cornish farm girl married into the English gentry, is shipwrecked off the Queensland coast and taken in by an Aboriginal tribe.
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That Deadman Dance
In the early nineteenth century on the south coast of Western Australia, Bobby Wabalanginy, a young Noongar man, welcomes the first white settlers and whalers, at first as friends.
The Secret River
William Thornhill, a London bargeman transported for theft in 1806, serves his time in Sydney and claims a hundred acres on the Hawkesbury River, land that already belongs to its Aboriginal people.
Rites of Passage
Near the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Edmund Talbot, a young gentleman sailing to Australia to take up a colonial post, keeps a journal of the voyage for his godfather, and of a timid clergyman who becomes the butt of the ship.
Benang
Harley, a young Noongar man whose white grandfather set out to breed the Aboriginality out of the family, floats in the air as he tells his family's history in Western Australia.
Poor Fellow My Country
Jeremy Delacy, a cattleman in the Northern Territory, and his Aboriginal grandson Prindy live through the years leading up to the Second World War, in one of the longest of all Australian novels.
Riders in the Chariot
Four outsiders in a Sydney suburb, an eccentric heiress, a Jewish refugee, a laundress and an Aboriginal painter, are joined by a shared vision and by the cruelty of their neighbours.
Bring Larks and Heroes
Corporal Phelim Halloran, an Irish marine in the penal colony of New South Wales in the late eighteenth century, loves a convict servant girl and is drawn into a plot by Irish convicts.
The Vaster Wilds
A colonial-era woman flees into the Virginia wilderness and must survive alone, carrying the weight of everything she's running from.
Voss
In Sydney in 1845, Johann Ulrich Voss, a German explorer preparing to cross the continent, meets Laura Trevelyan, the merchant's niece who understands him as no one else does.
The Yield
August Gondiwindi comes home from England for her grandfather's funeral and finds the family land about to be taken by a mining company, while his Wiradjuri dictionary tells his own story.
The White Girl
In a small Australian country town in the 1960s, Odette Brown, an Aboriginal grandmother raising her granddaughter Sissy, sees the new policeman taking an interest in the girl's fair skin.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
An Australian surgeon on the Burma Railway endures Japanese captivity and a death march, haunted by a love poem and the question of what makes life bearable.