From a barbecue gone awry to the devastation of European settlement, there’s no shortage of heartbreak in the 25 best Australian novels of the past 25 years.
bestseller list, and has since been turned into an award-winning HBO miniseries starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern. Five women are embroiled in a murder investigation after a school fundraiser goes awry. It’s such set-ups that have seen Moriarty sell more than 20 million copies of her books.A feminist horror novel that speaks perfectly to the rage and reckoning of the #MeToo movement.
Family tensions escalate as the Salters fight to stop the development of their river, and an affair with a white man adds to complications.Credit:The heartfelt semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale became Australia’s fastest-selling debut when it was published and has now sold more than 750,000 copies. Set in the working-class suburbs of Brisbane, it follows Eli Bell as he deals with his criminal babysitter, heroin-dealing stepfather, drug-addled mother, mute brother and lost father.
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