Australia -- Fiction books

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin’s Some Everyday Folk and Dawn opens in a cramped, sun‑baked kitchen where a family’s idle…

The Rider of Waroona

G. Firth Scott

The Rider of Waroona is a sprawling Australian saga that opens with a portrait of its eponymous protagonist,…

The Moving Finger

Mary Gaunt

The Moving Finger is a collection of short stories set in the Australian bush, and the opening scene drops…

Colonial Born: A Tale of the Queensland bush

G. Firth Scott

Colonial Born is an Australian bush novel that opens with a richly detailed portrait of a solitary homestead,…

In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant

Jules Verne

Jules Verne’s In Search of the Castaways is a geographical romance that launches with a vivid sea‑scene off…

For the Term of His Natural Life

Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

This work is a sprawling historical‑fiction saga that sets out to portray the grim reality of penal…

In Bad Company, and other stories

Rolf Boldrewood

The volume is a series of Australian sketches that centre on the everyday lives of bush settlers, beginning…

Joe Wilson and His Mates

Henry Lawson

My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin

The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

Henry Kingsley

Madame Midas

Fergus Hume

Such Is Life

Joseph Furphy

An Australian Girl

Catherine Martin

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life

Mrs. Campbell Praed

In Search of the Castaways A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue

Jules Verne

Babes in the Bush

Rolf Boldrewood

An Outback Marriage: A Story of Australian Life

A. B. Paterson

On the Track

Henry Lawson

John Caldigate

Anthony Trollope

Over the Sliprails

Henry Lawson

Les enfants du capitaine Grant

Jules Verne

The Boy in the Bush

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert); Skinner, M. L.

The Unbidden Guest

E. W. Hornung

The Ghost Camp; or, the Avengers

Rolf Boldrewood