The Fatal Shore
1986 · 628 pages
Britain shipped 160,000 convicts to Australia between 1787 and 1868. Hughes takes you down into the floggings and the Norfolk Island cells, and out again into the nation they made there.
★ 5.8
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Voss
1957 · 464 pages
In 1845 a German explorer attempts to cross Australia, bound across the desert to a woman in Sydney he barely knows. It took the inaugural Miles Franklin Award, Australia's foremost literary prize.
★ 6.6