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‘The Glass Canoe’ by David Ireland

Fiction – Kindle edition; Text Classics; 288 pages; 2012. David Ireland’s The Glass Canoe won Australia’s most prestigious literary award, The Miles Franklin Literary Award, in 1976. But the book —...

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‘The Women in Black’ by Madeleine St John

Fiction – Kindle edition; Hachette Digital; 208 pages; 2011. What do you do if you’ve just finished a hard-hitting, quite brutal and confronting, and overtly male book? You choose something completely...

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‘My Brilliant Career’ by Miles Franklin

Fiction – Kindle edition; Manybooks.net; 252 pages; 2004. Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879-1954) was an Australian feminist and writer. If her name sounds familiar it’s because she bequeathed...

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‘Careful, He Might Hear You’ by Sumner Locke Elliott

Fiction – paperback; Text Classics; 495 pages; 2012. First published in 1963, Sumner Locke Elliott’s Careful, He Might Hear You is a big, beautiful, bold-hearted book set in Sydney during the Great...

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‘The Refuge’ by Kenneth Mackenzie

Fiction – paperback; Text Classics; 448 pages; 2015. First published in 1954, Kenneth Mackenzie’s The Refuge is based on an intriguing premise: a newspaper reporter is tipped off about a young woman...

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