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Historical Novels: Australian Authors

Teenage Fiction - Ages 10 - 18 years.

Book List:  Printable Version
 
ALEXANDER, Goldie   Surviving Sydney Cove - the diary of Elizabeth Harvey
(Sydney, 1790)
   
COLLINS, Alan   The Boys from Bondi
(Migrants to Australia, 1940s)
Going Home
(Sydney and Palestine, 1947)
Joshua
(Pacifism, Vietnam War)
   
CREW, Gary   Edward Brittain
(Child convicts - Tasmania)
Strange Objects
(Batavia Shipwreck, 1629;
BOOK OF THE YEAR 1991)
   
DISHER, Garry   The Divine Wind
(Broome, W.A., WWII Migrants)
   
EDWARDS, Christine   On Board the Boussole - the diary of Julienne Fulbert
(Discovery of Australia, 1785)
   
FARRER, Vashti   Plagues and Federation - the diary of Kitty Barnes
(The Rocks, Sydney, 1900)
   
GLEESON, Libby   The Rum Rebellion - the diary of David Bellamy
(Sydneytown, 1807)
 
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GREENWOOD, Kerry   A Different Sort of Real - the diary of Charlotte MacKenzie
(Melbourne, 1918)
   
HATHORN, Libby   Ghostop series
(Ghost themes from the past)
   
HEISS, Anita   Who Am I? - the diary of Mary Talence
(Stolen generation, 1937)
   
HORNIMAN, Joanne   The Serpentine Belt
(Family History)
   
JINKS, Catherine   Pagan series
(Europe in the Crusades)
   
LISSON, Deborah   The Yankee Whaler: the diary of Thomas Morris
(W.A., 1876, Whaling)
The Devil's Own
(Batavia Shipwreck, 1629)
   
LOGAN, Carolyn   River Child
(W.A., 1829)
   
McROBBIE, David   Mandragora
(Timeslip, shipwreck)
   
MARSDEN, John   The Rabbits
(Allegory, Australian settlement)
   
NICHOLSON, Joyce   The Convict's Daughter
(Convict life, 1814)
 
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NILAND, Darcy   The Big Smoke
Sydney, 1900s, Aboriginal themes)
   
O'CONNOR, Pamela   One Whale Singing
(S.A., 1840, Whaling)
   
O'NEILL, Judith   So Far From Skye
(Scottish Emigrants, 1852)
   
PARK, Ruth   Playing Beatie Bow (JF)
(Time Travel, The Rocks, Sydney)
   
PAUSACKER, Jenny   A Tale of Two Families - the diary of Jan Packard
(Melbourne, 1974)
   
PINNEY, Estelle   A Net Full of Honey
(North Qld., 1920s)
   
PULMAN, Felicity   Shalott
(Arthurian fantasy)
   
RIDDEN, Brian   Whistle Man
(Ned Kelly's Gang)
   
WHEATLEY, Nadia   A Banner Bold - the diary of Rosa Aarons
(Ballarat goldfields, 1854)
   
WRIGHTSON, Patricia   Balyet
(Historical, Aboriginal heritage)
 
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