Adelina's Garden by Oskar Lapa

Sandris has no memory of his homeland and knows only the myths, legends and traditions of a Latvia that no longer exists. Growing up in Australia in the 1950s, he is caught between his grandmother’s religious beliefs that are steeped in pagan spirituality and his mother’s unspiritual pragmatism. His search for identity takes him through rich layers of Australian life where he gains an understanding of his world, who he is and where he belongs.

Shortlisted for the 2008 ABC Fiction Award

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Rage by Julie Mac       

Rampage with Julie Mac and the Sharpies on a grouse adventure as they fight, punch and kick through their turbulent teenage years on the unsuspecting streets of 1970s Melbourne. It was a time when bolting from the cops, stooging the ticket inspectors, drinking, spewing, pashing and rooting were all in a night’s work for this unique Australian sub-culture.

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Friend and Philosopher by Noel Braun

 
‘The country school teacher should be the friend and philosopher of the district.’

Inspired by this message from his college lecturers, the idealistic and zealous 19 year old Doug O’Connor takes up his first appointment to a remote one-teacher school in a decaying Australian country town.

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Wild Women by Simon Leigh

Steven Butts arrives in Canada to become a professor and race cars. His girlfriend comes too. Everything that can go wrong does. He has no idea about the subject he’s meant to be teaching. He finds himself proposing marriage to his girlfriend, despite pining for an old girlfriend. And once married he finds himself strangely attractive to women, including his students.

‘It's a scream now, but finding yourself lost in Canada wasn't so funny at the time.’ SL.

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Catch a Falling Star by Peter Haywood    

Nicky Nova is a Bowie-obsessed young man growing up in Melbourne in the early 1980's. Nicky moves into a big, ramshackle share house in Lygon Street, Carlton, with a bunch of musician friends. He forms a band and dreams of becoming a world famous rock'n'roll star. But is the band as hell-bent on fame and fortune as their singer? This is a post-punk story about friendship and betrayal, the impossible dreams of youth, and the compromises we must make in order to survive.

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Hymn for the Wounded Man by Stephanie Dale          

Lilia is an Australian city girl who takes time out from her busy life to find her spiritual heart in New Zealand. There she meets a man whose culture she didn’t know existed in the modern world of the 21st century. And so begins a love story that is timeless and achingly beautiful.

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Disguises by Sally Leigh

Some people choose their disguise. Others have it forced upon them. Cathie Lee is a Gen Y Australian girl – but as a second generation Chinese, she's forced to wear a Chinese disguise. As part of a student assignment for her journalism course, she interviews Peter Harris, a harmless looking old man she meets in a cafe. But the story he tells about a love affaire in ‘sixties Hong Kong, involving the Cultural Revolution, police corruption and murky family secrets, detonates a time bomb that blows Cathie’s life apart.

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The Girl in the Golden House by John Biggs             

Chris Wong’s sexual awakening is complicated by the political realities of modern Hong Kong and traditional Chinese beliefs on love, marriage and career. After the Tiananmen Massacre, like many Hong Kong men, Chris became an ‘astronaut’, parking his family in Australia to gain citizenship, while he continued working in Hong Kong, but could his marriage survive under the strain?

 

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Norton’s Triumph by Glynis J Curtis

Norton’s Triumph is a thirty year saga in the life of a motorcycle. As this indomitable Norton Dominator travels three continents – from England to Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia – it undergoes transformations while the people who ride it make their own journeys as their lives are touched and changed forever.

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Adrian & Gabriel or Drugs, Sex and the Sunrise by Joe Jeney

Cops, Junkies, dealers, lawyers, teachers, lovers, friends and enemies, artists, angels, ghosts and thieves – who will you meet on your journey?

Adrian wanders inner city streets searching for not just a better life or the right life but his life. Along the way he meets druggie girl Gabriel. He’s sure that she is strong where he is weak and that she can see where he is blind. But she just wants her drugs back.

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Wasp Season by Jennifer Scoullar

This contemporary Australian thriller is on one level a story of family disintegration and social alienation. It concerns Beth, her estranged husband Mark, and his beautiful young girlfriend, Helen. The wasp tale unfolding in Beth’s garden provides the reader with a fascinating and compelling parallel story that holds up a distorted mirror to the human drama. As the narrative gathers momentum, the connections between the two worlds come sharply into focus and it is clear that the lives of Beth and the others are neither safe from nor separate to the natural world.

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Muso by Michael Nelson

This is the story of Hank Kelly whose love of music, dedication and dreams of success are common to all ‘pro-musos’. He is the quintessential muso from that earlier time – career oriented and dedicated to the pursuit of self development, more often than not along the pathway of jazz while plying his craft in the seedy clubs and bars that constitute the muso’s workplace.

The CD of the music from the book is also included.

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The Art of Illusion by Brian Smith
      
Michael Delaney was always bright and obsessive. As a schoolboy, he was sure to come top of his class, despite the time he spent trying to master the magician’s art, an art he learned could be used to his advantage. Now, a year or two before the internet will sweep the world, Michael retains his interest in the art of illusion but is obsessed with creating a flourishing IT industry in Australia. When Michael loses a project to the unscrupulous Gerald Pritchard, he faces a dilemma. Can he outwit Gerald or would he be more likely to achieve his ambitions by working with him? 

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