Schedule suggestions

Fiction (Australian)

  • ANDERSON, Jessica Terra Lirra by the river (A.D. and others)
  • ARNOTT, Robbie Flames (S.B.)
  • DAY, Gregory, The bell of the world (Longlisted for the Miles Franklin; “The acclaimed author and poet has a long history writing about our relationship with place. His hypnotic new novel feels like a culmination, imploring us to listen” from The Guardian, S.T.)
  • HALLIGAN, Marion : Do a Marion Halligan night (like we did once for Garner) as tribute (S.T.)
  • KENT, Hannah Devotion (S.C.)
  • MILDENHALL, Kate The hummingbird effect (S.T.)
  • O’REILLY, Paddy Other houses (about people who live from payday to payday, class and aspiration; not read it, S.T., BUT Minister for the Arts Tony Burke admires it)
  • WATSON, James McKenzie Denizen (K.McL)

Fiction (Non-Australian)

  • BYATT, AS The children’s book (S.B.)
  • McEWAN, Ian Lessons (C.B.)
  • PATCHETT, Anne Tom Lake (S.T.)

Fiction (Classic)

  • ELLIOT, Sumner Locke Careful he might hear you
  • DICKENS, Charles : one by him, eg Barnaby Rudge (historical fiction, S.B.)
  • PRICHARD, Katharine Susannah : one by her, eg Haxby’s circus
  • VONNEGUT, Kurt : one by him?
  • WHITE, Patrick : one by him?

First Nations (Fiction and nonfiction)

  • BIRCH, Tony Women and children (shortish novel set in 1960s, S.T.)
  • HARRISON, Jane: The visitors (“a surprising and refreshing take on the 1788 story we all grew up with and has some rich snippets of culture and history along with unexpected humour” – blogger Denise Newton, S.T.)
  • LUCASHENKO, Melissa: Edenglassie (J.g., S.T.)

Non-fiction

  • CARO, Jane Mother (about mother-daughter relationships, and moving into interesting areas domestically, K.McL)
  • DALTON, Robin Aunts up the cross (funny, short memoir from 1930s+ Sydney, published by Text Classics, S.T.)
  • GADSBY, Hannah Ten steps to Nanette (K.McL)
  • JAIRETH, Subhash George Orwell’s Elephant and other essays (essays about the “personal and collective memory held within natural and built landscapes, from Delhi to Moscow, including Burma, Spain, Uluru, Canberra, Sydney “with the sharp gaze of a geologist and the imagination of a poet” S.T.)
  • PUNG, Alice (ed.) Growing up in Australia (from Black Inc’s Growing Up series, includes pieces by Tim Winton, Benjamin Law, Anna Goldsworthy, Nyadol Nyuon, Tara June Winch, Miranda Tapsell, Carly Findlay, S.T.)

Also …

How about a plan such as doing each year, at least one:

  • translated book a year (e.g. from IFFP list)
  • by a First Nations Australian writer (in July to recognise NAIDOC Week)
  • Miles Franklin winner from the past? OR Stella prizewinner or shortlisted book?