Tomorrow, When the War Began

Tomorrow, When the War Began, John Marsden, 1993

Australia, #21
Paperback, Alibris, $0.99
Read December 2014
Rating: 2/5
Recommended for: teenagers, as long as they are fairly naïve and not sensitive to being talked down to.

Cloudstreet

Cloudstreet, Tim Winton, 1991

The Great World, David Malouf, 1990

Australia, #19
Paperback, alibris.com, $0.99
Read: November 2014
Rating: 3/5
Recommended for: War enthusiasts, very serious white men (or are these even distinct categories?)

Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey, 1988

Australia, #18
Paperback, price unknown (it was on my shelf when I started the project, having been bought, started, and abandoned at some point in the past)
Read July 2014
Rating: 3/5
Recommended for: timid agnostics and unlucky poker players

My Place, Sally Morgan, 1987

Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List), Thomas Kenneally, 1982

The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough, 1977

Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay, 1967

Australia, #14
Kindle, £4.37
Read March 2014
Rating 4/5
Opening line: “Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock – a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling all through breakfast from the loquat trees outside the dining-room windows and bees murmuring above the pansies bordering the drive.”
Recommended for: proper young ladies who read Patricia Highsmith and Daphne du Maurier, have a secret love of Unsolved Mysteries, and appreciate the pathos of the opening scene of Carrie but find the rest of the movie lacking in subtlety