Visiting authors top reads
Some of our visiting authors have provided their top reads.
Moreland author: Roger Averill’s top reads
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Visitants by Randolph Stow
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Rock Springs by Richard Ford
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The poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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The art of the engine driver by Steven Carroll
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Collected essays by George Orwell
Romance author: Ally Blake’s top reads
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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The prince in waiting by John Christopher
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The princess bride by William Goldman
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HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean
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Confessions of a shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Moreland author: Clare Boyd-Macrae’s top reads
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The feel of steel by Helen Garner
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The secret river by Kate Grenville
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His dark materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
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The poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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Any detective fiction by Elizabeth George
Author: Simon Capp’s top reads
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Extra virgin by Annie Hawes
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Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance by Barack Obama
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Jackson’s Track: memoir of a dreamtime place by Carolyn Landon and Daryl Tonkin
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Futebol: the Brazilian way of life by Alex Bellos
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Dave Barry does Japan by Dave Barry
Moreland author and comedian: Catherine Deveny’s top reads
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The God delusion by Richard Dawkins
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Magical thinking: true stories by Augusten Burroughs
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The drama of being a child by Alice Miller
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When you are engulfed in flames by David Sedaris
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God is not great: how religion poisons everything by Christopher Hitchens
Author: Susanna de Vries’ top reads
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
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Georgette Heyer's Regency world by Jennifer Kloester
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Fortune's daughters: the extravagant lives of the Jerome sisters: Jennnie Churchill, Clara Frewin and Leonie Leslie by Elisabeth Kehoe
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The Villa Diana: travels in post-war Italy by Alan Moorehead
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The Duchess: Georgiana: the Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
Author: Mem Fox’s top reads
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte
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A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway
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Schindler’s ark by Thomas Keneally
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A suitable boy by Vikram Seth
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Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson
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Author: Archimede Fusillo’s top reads
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Kill the possum by James Moloney
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M by Peter Robb
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The secret supper by Javier Sierra
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Caravaggio: a novel by Christopher Peachment
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Life is so good by George Dawson with Richard Glaubman
Author: Diana Georgeff’s top reads
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Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
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Landscape of farewell by Alex Miller
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Two lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
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A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
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The road by Cormac McCarthy
Author: Madeleine Hamilton’s top reads
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Isobel on the way to the corner shop by Amy Witting
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The children's Bach by Helen Garner
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The delinquents by Criena Rohan
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To the Is-land by Janet Frame
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A woman in Berlin: diary 20 April 1945 - 22 June 1945 [Anonymous]
Author: Michael Harden’s top reads
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The slap by Christos Tsiolkas
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The dog of the marriage: the collected stories by Amy Hempel
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The architecture of happiness by Alain De Botton
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Out stealing horses by Per Petterson
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Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami
Author: Narrelle Harris’s top reads
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Snake agent by Liz Williams
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Redback by Lindy Cameron
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Good omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
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The code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
Author: Kate Holden’s top reads
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Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
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Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
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The dark is rising sequence by Susan Cooper
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The wasteland by TS Eliot
- Anything by Jan Morris
Actor and author: William McInnes’ top reads
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Hunting the wild pineapple by Thea Astley
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Watcher on the cast-iron balcony by Hal Porter
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Fly away Peter by David Malouf
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My brilliant career by Miles Franklin
Author Joel Magarey's top reads
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers
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In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
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An instant in the wind by Andre Brink
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The worst journey in the world by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Historian and biographer: Ross McMullin’s top reads
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Any of Shane Maloney’s books
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As It Happened by John Button
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The Broken Years by Bill Gammage
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Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
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John Monash by Geoff Serle
Moreland author: Joan Nestle’s top reads
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Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
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Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
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The tree of man by Patrick White
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To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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Wild card: an autobiography, 1923-1958 by Dorothy Hewett
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The narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave by Frederick Douglass
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Unfortunately, it was paradise by Mahmoud Darwish
Author: Charmaine O’Brien’s top reads
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Food in history by Reay Tannahill
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The famous five series by Enid Blyton
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A taste of India by Madhur Jaffrey
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My brother Jack by George Johnston
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The Alice B. Toklas cookbook by Alice B. Toklas
Author: Judith Pugh’s top reads
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Mr Felton's bequests by John Poynter
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Carry me down by M.J. Hyland
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Any book by: Rumer Godden, W. H. Auden, Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway, A. N. Wilson, Jonathan Franzen or Ann Patchett
Author: Leanne Robinson’s top reads
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Autobiography of red: a novel in verse by Anne Carson
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Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
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The cinnamon peeler by Michael Ondaatje
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Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
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The passion by Jeanette Winterson
Author and comedian: Denise Scott’s top reads
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The stone diaries by Carol Shields
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Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Scenes from a revolution: the birth of the new Hollywood by Mark Harris
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Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Actor and audio book narrator: David Tredinnick’s top reads
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Shadowboxing by Tony Birch
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Silences long gone by Anson Cameron
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Pizza features by John Larkin
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Black water by David Metzenthen
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Going home by Archie Weller
Author: Lili Wilkinson’s top reads
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Y the last man (graphic novel series) by Brian K. Vaughan
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Buddha (graphic novel series) by Osamu Tezuka
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Town by James Roy
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Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne-Jones
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Love that dog by Sharon Creech
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The last Samurai by Helen Dewitt
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The indigo girls by Penni Russon
Author Vivienne Ulman’s top reads
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Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
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Drown by Junot Diaz
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The poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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The corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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The thousand acres by Jane Smiley
Author: Arnold Zable’s top reads
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The white tiger by Aravind Adiga
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Unaccustomed earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Wanting by Richard Flanagan
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Vertigo: a pastoral by Amanda Lohrey
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Istanbul: memories of a city by Orhan Pamuk