| Surname
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Life dates
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Works
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Glenda Adams
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1939-2007
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Longleg, The Tempest of Clemenza, Dancing on Coral
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Jessica Anderson
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1916-2010
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Tirra Lirra by the River, The Impersonators, Stories from the Warm Zone
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Tom Arden
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1961-2015
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Moon Escape
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Thea Astley
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1925-2004
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The Well Dressed Explorer, The Slow Natives, The Acolyte, Drylands
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Murray Bail
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* 1941
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Homesickness, Holden's Performance, Eucalyptus
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Marjorie Barnard
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1897-1987
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Michael Gerard Bauer
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* 1955
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The Running Man, Don't Call Me Ismael!
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Barbara Baynton
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1857-1929
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Bush Studies
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Randolph Bedford
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1868-1941
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Geoff Bingham
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1919-2009
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Carmel Bird
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* 1940
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The Bluebird Café, The White Garden, Red Shoes
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Rolf Boldrewood
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1826-1915
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Robbery under arms
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Guy Boothby
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1867-1905
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Dr. Nikola
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Alex Buzo
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1944-2006
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Norm and Ahmed, Rooted, Macquarie: a Play, Coralie Lansdowne Says No.
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Trudi Canavan
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* 1969
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Black Magician Trilogy, Age of the Five
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Peter Carey
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* 1943
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Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda, Jack Maggs, Bliss, Die Steuerfahnderin, True History of the Kelly Gang
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Gavin Casey
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1907-1964
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Donald Ernest Charlwood
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1915-2012
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Marcus Clarke
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1846-1881
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For the Term of His Natural Life
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James Clavell
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1924-1994
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King Rat , Shogun , Noble House
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Kenneth Cook
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1929-1987
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Wake in Fright
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Sandy Curtis
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* 1948
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The valley of fear, The river of oblivion, In the sea of fear, On the edge of vengeance
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Frank Dalby Davison
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1893-1970
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Liam Davison
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1957-2014
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The Velodrome, Soundings, The White Woman
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Robert Dessaix
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* 1944
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Night letters
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Garry Disher
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* 1949
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Dragon man, dirt, flight frenzy, greed, behind the islands, ambush, arbitrariness, Porta Villa Blues, snapshot
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Robert Drewe
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* 1943
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The Savage Crows, The Bodysurfers, Grace
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Nick Earls
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* 1963
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Zigzag Street, 48 Shades of Brown, Monica Bloom
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Greg Egan
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* 1961
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Oceanic, distress
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Sumner Locke Elliott
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1917-1991
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Careful, He Might Hear You, Rusty Bugles
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Jennifer Fallon
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* 1959
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The Tide Lords, Demon Child Trilogy, The Hythrun Chronicles
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Richard Flanagan
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* 1961
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Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping
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David Foster
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* 1949
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The Pure Land, Moonlite, The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover, The Glade within the Grove
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Miles Franklin
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1879-1954
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My Brilliant Career
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Joseph Furphy
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1843-1912
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Such is life
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Helen Garner
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* 1942
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Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino
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Peter Goldsworthy
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* 1951
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maestro
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Germaine Greer
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* 1939
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The Female Eunuch, Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility
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Kate Grenville
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* 1950
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Lilian's Story, Dreamhouse, Dark Places, The Idea of Perfection, The Secret River, The Lieutenant, Sarah Thornhill
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Jeannie Gunn
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1870-1961
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The Little Black Princess
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Rodney Hall
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* 1935
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Just Relations, The Grisly Wife, The Island in the Mind
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Barbara Hanrahan
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1939-1991
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The Scent of Eucalyptus, Sea-Green, Dove, Flawless Jade
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Traci Harding
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* 1964
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The Ancient Future, The Alchemist Key
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Richard Harland
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* 1947
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The Black Crusade, Catabolic Magic, The Greater Death of Saito Saku
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Beverley Harper
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1941-2002
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Storms over Africa, Edge of the Rain, Echo of an Angry God
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Sonya Hartnett
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* 1968
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Of a Boy, Surrender, Landscape with Animals
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Xavier Herbert
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1901-1984
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Capricornia, Poor Fellow My Country
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Dorothy Coade Hewett
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1923-2002
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Alice in Wormland
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Janette Turner Hospital
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* 1942
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Charades, The Last Magician, Oyster
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Adrian Hyland
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* 1954
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Diamond Dove, Gunshot Road
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Ion Idriess
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1889-1979
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Lasseter's Last Ride, Flynn of the Inland
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David Ireland
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* 1927
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The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, The Glass Canoe, A Woman of the Future
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Ian Irvine
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* 1950
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The View from the Mirror, The Well of Echoes, The Song of the Tears
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Charlotte Jay
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1919-1996
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Beat Not the Bones
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George Henry Johnston
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1912-1970
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My Brother Jack, Clean Straw for Nothing
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Elizabeth Jolley
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1923-2007
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Mr Scobie's Riddle, My Father's Moon, The Orchard Thieves, Lovesong
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Barry Jonsberg
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* 1951
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The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull
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Thomas Keneally
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* 1935
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Schindler's List , Bring Larks and Heroes, A Dutiful Daughter, Passenger, A River Town
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Henry Kingsley
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1830-1876
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The recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn, Ravenshoe, Stretton
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Christopher John Koch
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1932-2013
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The Boys in the Island, Highway to A War
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Michelle de Kretser
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* 1957
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The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case, The Lost Dog
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Richard Lane
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1918-2008
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Eve Langley
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1908-1974
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The pea pickers
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Julia Leigh
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* 1970
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The hunter , unrest
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Kathy Lette
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* 1958
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Puberty blues
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Joan Lindsay
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1896-1984
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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Shane Maloney
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* 1953
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The Brush Off
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David Malouf
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* 1934
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Johnno, The Great World, Dream Stuff
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Colleen McCullough
|
1937-2015
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The thorn birds
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Ronald McKie
|
1909-1991
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The mango tree
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Alex Miller
|
* 1936
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Love song
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Drusilla Modjeska
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* 1946
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The Orchard
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Frank Moorhouse
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* 1938
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Grand Days, Dark Palace
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Sally Morgan
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* 1951
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My place
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Kate Morton
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* 1976
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The Shifting Fog, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours
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Gerald Murnane
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* 1939
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The Plains
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Max Murray
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1901-1956
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The Voice of the Corpse, The Neat Little Corpse, The Right Honorable Corpse
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D'Arcy Niland
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1919-1967
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The Shiralee
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Garth Nix
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* 1963
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The Ragwitch, Shade's Children, Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen
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Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)
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1920-1993
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We are going, The Dawn is at hand
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Malla Nunn
|
* 19 **
|
A Beautiful Place to Die
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Charles Osborne
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1927-2017
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Ruth Park
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1923-2010
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A Power of Roses; One-a-pecker, two-a-pecker; Swords and Crowns and Rings, The Muddle-Headed Wombat
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Andrew Barton Paterson (Banjo Paterson)
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1864-1941
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Waltzing Matilda , The Man From Snowy River
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Steven Paulsen
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* 1955
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Brian Penton
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1904-1951
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Landtakers , Inheritors
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Doris Pilkington
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1937-2014
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Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter , Follow the rabbit-proof fence . St. Lucia, Qld
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Katharine Susannah Prichard
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1883-1969
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Coonardoo
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Matthew Reilly
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* 1974
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Ice station
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Henry Handel Richardson
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1870-1946
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The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
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Steele Rudd
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1868-1935
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Henry Savery
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1791-1842
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Quintus Servinton
|
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Thomas Shapcott
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* 1935
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Theater of Darkness
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Patricia Shaw
|
* 1929
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River of the Sun, The Opal Seekers, The Five Winds
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Christina Stead
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1902-1983
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House of all Nations, The Man Who Loved Children, The Little Hotel
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Amanda Stewart
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* 1959
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Dal Stivens
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1911-1997
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Jimmy Brockett
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Randolph Stow
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1935-2010
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A Haunted Land, To the Islands, Tourmaline, Visitants
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Peter Temple
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1946-2018
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Forgotten Guilt (Jack Irish), An Iron Rose, Shooting Star, Cold August
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Christos Tsiolkas
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* 1965
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Mapping Desire - Christos Tsiolkas's Loaded
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George Turner
|
1916-1997
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The Sea and Summer, Genetic Soldier
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Arthur W. Upfield
|
1890-1964
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Death of a Lake and various other crime novels about Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte
|
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Alan Villiers
|
1903-1982
|
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Peter Watt
|
* 1949
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Eden, Who Follows the Wind, Papua, Shadow of the Osprey, On the Wings of the Eagle, Cry of the Curlew
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Morris L. West
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1916-1999
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Children of the Sun, Daughter of Silence, The Ambassador, Vanishing Point
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Osmar White
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1909-1991
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Green Armor, Conqueror's Road
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Patrick White
|
1912-1990
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Voss, Riders in the Chariot, The Twyborn Affair, Memoirs of Many in One
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David Williamson
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* 1942
|
Playwright
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Tim Winton
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* 1960
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To Open Swimmer, Cloudstreet, The Riders, Lockie Leonard series
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