Books like Australia Remember When
Loved Australia Remember When by Bob Byrne? Here are 7 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Australia Remember When →7 books
- 1In a Sunburned Country
In a Sunburned Country
Bill BrysonA travel-and-history book that describes Australia's places, people and past with humour and curiosity.
- 2The Thorn Birds
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCulloughA multi-generation saga set on an Australian sheep station, following a family across much of the twentieth century.
- 3The Harp in the South
The Harp in the South
Ruth ParkA novel about a poor family in the Sydney slums of Surry Hills, drawn from the working-class life of its time.
- 4Cloudstreet
Cloudstreet
Tim WintonA novel following two Western Australian families who share a house in Perth over several decades.
- 5True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter CareyA fictional account, written as Ned Kelly's own memoir, of the bushranger and the events that made him known in colonial Victoria.
- 6The Secret River
The Secret River
Kate GrenvilleA novel about an English convict who settles on the Hawkesbury River in colonial New South Wales and the conflict that follows.
- 7The Slap
The Slap
Christos TsiolkasA novel told through eight narrators whose views of a single incident at a Melbourne barbecue expose contemporary suburban tensions.
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