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Tomorrow, When the War Began is the first book in the Tomorrow series by John Marsden. It was published in 1993, and is a young adult invasion novel, detailing a high-intensity invasion and occupation of Australia by a foreign power. The novel is told in first person perspective by the main character, a teenage girl named Ellie Linton, who is ...
A reviewer in The Canberra Times praised its setting, but was less impressed with its overall worth as a novel: "Picnic Races, Dymphna Cusack's latest novel, is as Australian as a yellow box tree. Her fictional town of Gubba, whose centenary is arranged and celebrated amid a welter of community rivalries, could be any Australian country town ...
Pages in category "Fictional Australian people" ... Slayback (comic book character) Slip-Slop-Slap; Slipstream (comics) Helen Smart (Prisoner) Bea Smith (Prisoner)
On the Beach is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previous.
Winner, WAYRBA (West Australian Young Readers' Books Award) 1995 [30] Winner, BILBY Awards (Books I Love Best Yearly) 1998 [30] [31] Nominated, South Carolina Book Award 1998 [35] Winner, New South Wales Talking Book Award [30] Voted Australia's favourite Australian book in Get Reading's Australia's Top 100 Favourite Homegrown Reads poll, 2013 ...
A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. [1] Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia to be with him, where she attempts, by investing her substantial financial inheritance ...
The novel tells the interconnected stories of several inhabitants of the fictional town of Desperance, situated on the Gulf of Carpentaria in northwest Queensland.There, the Aboriginal people of the Pricklebush clan are engaged in a number of argumentative conflicts with various enemies in the community, including the white inhabitants of Desperance, the local law enforcement and government ...
Australia in fiction by state or territory (13 C) Comics set in Australia (1 C, 16 P) ... Fictional Australian people (8 C, 94 P) S. Short stories set in Australia (6 ...