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The Commandant
Jessica Anderson

Introduced by Carmen Callil

Homesickness
Murray Bail

Introduced by Peter Conrad

Sydney Bridge Upside Down
David Ballantyne

Introduced by Kate De Goldi

A Difficult Young Man
Martin Boyd

Introduced by Sonya Hartnett

The Australian Ugliness
Robin Boyd

Introduced by Christos Tsiolkas

The Even More Complete
Book of Australian Verse
John Clarke

Introduced by John Clarke

Diary of a Bad Year
JM Coetzee

Introduced by Peter Goldsworthy

Wake in Fright
Kenneth Cook

Introduced by Peter Temple

The Dying Trade
Peter Corris

Introduced by Charles Waterstreet

They’re a Weird Mob
Nino Culotta

Introduced by Jacinta Tynan

Careful, He Might Hear You
Sumner Locke Elliott

Introduced by Robyn Nevin

Terra Australis
Matthew Flinders

Introduced by Tim Flannery

My Brilliant Career
Miles Franklin

Introduced by Jennifer Byrne

Cosmo Cosmolino
Helen Garner

Introduced by Ramona Koval

Dark Places
Kate Grenville

Introduced by Louise Adler

The Watch Tower
Elizabeth Harrower

Introduced by Joan London

The Mystery of
a Hansom Cab
Fergus Hume

Introduced by Simon Caterson

The Glass Canoe
David Ireland

Introduced by Nicolas Rothwell

The Jerilderie Letter
Ned Kelly

Introduced by Alex McDermott

Bring Larks and Heroes
Thomas Keneally

Introduced by Geordie Williamson

Strine
Afferbeck Lauder

Introduced by John Clarke

Stiff
Shane Maloney

Introduced by Lindsay Tanner

The Middle Parts of Fortune
Frederic Manning

Introduced by Simon Caterson

The Scarecrow
Ronald Hugh Morrieson

Introduced by Craig Sherborne

The Dig Tree
Sarah Murgatroyd

Introduced by Geoffrey Blainey

The Plains
Gerald Murnane

Introduced by Wayne Macauley

The Fortunes of
Richard Mahony
Henry Handel Richardson

Introduced by Peter Craven

The Women in Black
Madeleine St John

Introduced by Bruce Beresford

An Iron Rose
Peter Temple

Introduced by Les Carlyon

1788
Watkin Tench

Introduced by Tim Flannery