Index

Complete list of titles reviewed on this blog since 19/7/08

All reviews by Lisa Hill unless otherwise noted by *

Fiction

  1. All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
  2. Almost French by Sarah Turnbull*
  3. Amy’s Children by Olga Masters
  4. The Apple by Penelope Holt
  5. The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro
  6. Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
  7. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
  8. The Blind Eye by Georgia Blain
  9. The Believers, by Zoe Heller
  10. Belonging by Isabel Huggan
  11. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  12. Bird by Sophie Cunningham
  13. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
  14. Border Crossing by Pat Barker*
  15. Breath by Tim Winton
  16. Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
  17. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  18. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
  19. Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton
  20. Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin
  21. A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
  22. The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
  23. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Stephen Galloway
  24. The Child in Time, by Ian McEwan
  25. The Children by Charlotte Wood
  26. The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
  27. The Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary*
  28. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
  29. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
  30. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F Scott Fitzgerald
  31. Dancer by Colum McCann
  32. Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
  33. Death of a Whaler by Nerida Newton, read by Christopher Brown
  34. The Devil’s Advocate by Morris West
  35. Dissection, by Jacinta Halloran
  36. Document Z by Andrew Croome
  37. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  38. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  39. Drop City by T C Boyle *
  40. The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
  41. The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard
  42. Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy
  43. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  44. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
  45. Finders and Keepers by Catrin Collier, read by Kate Jarman
  46. Fly Away Peter, by David Malouf
  47. A Fraction of the Whole, by Steve Toltz
  48. Fugitive Blue by Claire Thomas
  49. Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale
  50. Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton
  51. Godiva by Nerys Jones
  52. The Good Parents by Joan London
  53. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
  54. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
  55. The Homecoming by Bernard Schlink
  56. The Hours by Michael Cunningham       
  57. The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide (see also)*
  58. How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic
  59. I Do Not Come to You By Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani/
  60. Ice by Louis Nowra
  61. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (more fiction than NF, though a bit of both)
  62. In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
  63. In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
  64. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
  65. Inland by Gerald Murnane
  66. An Innocent Gentleman by Elizabeth Jolley
  67. Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller
  68. Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
  69. Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
  70. The Liberator’s Birthday by Jill Blee, read by Stanley McGeagh
  71. The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
  72. Life in Seven Mistakes by Susan Johnson
  73. The Little Hotel by Christina Stead
  74. The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
  75. Man Overboard by Tim Binding, read by Stephen Crossley
  76. The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
  77. Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
  78. Meet Me in Venice by Elizabeth Adler
  79. The Memory Room by Christopher Koch
  80. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  81. Murder on the Apricot Coast by Marion Halligan
  82. Musk and Byrne, by Fiona Capp
  83. My Crowded Solitude by Jack McLaren
  84. Napoleon’s Double by Antoni Jach (see also)*
  85. Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
  86. Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
  87. Oh Lucky Country by Rosa Cappiello
  88. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
  89. On Our Selection by Steele Rudd
  90. One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna
  91. Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw
  92. Orpheus Lost by Janet Turner Hospital*
  93. The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
  94. The Pages by Murray Bail
  95. The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
  96. Paper Nautilus by Nicholas Jose, read by Paul English
  97. Passarola Rising by Azhar Abidi
  98. The Plains by Gerald Murnane
  99. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
  100. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
  101. Provenance by Jane Messner *
  102. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
  103. The Rainy Season by Myfanwy Jones
  104. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
  105. The Remains of the Day, by Kasuo Ishiguro
  106. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  107. Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood
  108. Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey
  109. The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
  110. Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
  111. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
  112. The Secret of Lost Things, by Sheridan Hay (see also) *
  113.  The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
  114. A Separate Peace by John Knowles, read by Matthew Modine
  115. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie, read by Aasif Mandvi
  116. The Shiralee by D’Arcy Niland, read by Ivor Kants
  117. Shroud by John Banville
  118. The Siege by Ismail Kadare
  119.  The Silver Wattle by Belinda Alexander, read by Caroline Lee
  120.  The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
  121. Small World by David Lodge *
  122. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See, read by Janet Song
  123. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
  124. Song for Night by Chris Abani
  125. Spadework by Timothy Findlay
  126. The  Spare Room by Helen Garner, read by Heather Bolton
  127. The Solid Mandala by Patrick White
  128. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
  129. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
  130. Summer Crossing by Truman Capote, read by Lorelei King
  131. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  132. Swimming by Enza Gandolfo
  133. The Sword and the Miracle by Melvyn Bragg*
  134. Swords and Crowns and Rings by Ruth Park
  135. The Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
  136. Tales of the Austral Tropics by Ernest Favenc
  137. The Taxi Queue by Janet Davey
  138. Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
  139. These Foolish Things, by Deborah Moggach
  140. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
  141. Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively
  142. Trespass by Valerie Martin
  143. The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
  144. Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka *
  145. The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
  146. Ulysses by James Joyce #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10
  147. The Verge Practice by Barry Maitland*
  148. Vertigo by Amanda Lohrey
  149. Voss by Patrick White
  150. Wanting by Richard Flanagan
  151. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  152. We of the Never-Never by Mrs Aeneus Gunn
  153. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
  154. The Widow and Her Hero by Thomas Keneally
  155. The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
  156. The Zookeeper’s War by Steven Conte

Non Fiction

  1. After Such Knowledge by Eva Hoffman
  2. An Awkward Truth by Peter Grose
  3. Bad Hair Days, by Pamela Bone
  4. The Cambridge History of Australian Literature, edited by Peter Pierce
  5. Creme de la Phlegm, Unforgettable Australian Reviews by Angela Bennie
  6. Fairweather by Murray Bail
  7. Five Days in London by John Lukacs
  8. Flavours of Melbourne by Charmaine O’Brien
  9. Fred Williams by Patrick McCaughey
  10. Galileo, Antichrist by Michael White
  11. The Henson Case, by David Marr
  12. The Home of the Blizzard by Douglas Mawson
  13. House of Exile by Evelyn Juers
  14. A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
  15. I Am Melba by Ann Blainey
  16. Joseph Banks, A Life, by Patrick O’Brian
  17. Margaret Olley, Far From a Still Life by Meg Stewart
  18. Obsessive Genius, The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith
  19. On Experience by David Malouf
  20. The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman, read by Stephen Greif
  21. Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy
  22. The Place for a Village by Gary Presland
  23. Plenty by Gay Bilson
  24. Radical Melbourne, a Secret History by Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow
  25. Resistance, Memoirs of Occupied France, by Agnes Humbert
  26. Stella Miles Franklin, A  Biography by Jill Roe
  27. The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper
  28. Time Without Clocks by Joan Lindsay
  29. A Very Rude Awakening, by Peter Grose
  30. Walking the Camino by Tony Kevin
  31. Wicked But Virtuous, by Mirka Mora
  32. Women of the Long March by Lily Xiao Hong and Sue Wiles, read by Stephanie Daniel

Complete List of Opening Lines from Miles Franklin winners(Missing years are titles I don’t have a copy of, yet)

1957 Voss by Patrick White

1958 To the Islands by Randolph Stow

1959 The Big Fellow by Vance Palmer

1961 Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White

1962 The Well Dressed Explorer by Thea Astley

1963 Careful He Might Hear You by Sumner Locke Eliot

1964 My Brother Jack by George Johnson

1965 The Slow Natives by Thea Astley

1966 Trap by Peter Mathers

1967 Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally

1968 Three Cheers for the Paraclete by Thomas Keneally

* Review by Sally Cripps.

Last edited 27.12.09

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