Archive for the ‘Australian Social Novels’ Category

The Big Smoke (1959), by D’Arcy Niland

Posted by: Lisa Hill on March 16, 2023

The Morality of Gentlemen (1984), by Amanda Lohrey

Posted by: Lisa Hill on July 23, 2022

Other Houses (2022), by Paddy O’Reilly (and a shout-out to the social novel from Jane Caro)

Posted by: Lisa Hill on April 3, 2022

The Ozone Café (2021), by Helen Hagemann

Posted by: Lisa Hill on April 1, 2022

Loveland (2022), by Robert Lukins

Posted by: Lisa Hill on March 19, 2022

The Roaring Nineties (1946, The Goldfields Trilogy #1) , by Katharine Susannah Prichard

Posted by: Lisa Hill on January 6, 2022

Missus (1985), by Ruth Park

Posted by: Lisa Hill on November 29, 2021

Ride on Stranger (1943), by Kylie Tennant

Posted by: Lisa Hill on January 24, 2021

Factory 19 (2020), by Dennis Glover

Posted by: Lisa Hill on November 3, 2020

Dead Men Running (1969), by D’Arcy Niland

Posted by: Lisa Hill on July 31, 2019

The Honey Flow (1956), by Kylie Tennant

Posted by: Lisa Hill on November 4, 2018

The Wonders (2014), by Paddy O’Reilly

Posted by: Lisa Hill on August 13, 2014

The Fine Colour of Rust (2012), by P.A. O’Reilly

Posted by: Lisa Hill on December 5, 2012

The Factory (2005), by Paddy O’Reilly

Posted by: Lisa Hill on October 14, 2012

The Battlers (1941), by Kylie Tennant, read by Jacklyn Kelleher

Posted by: Lisa Hill on February 2, 2012

The Harp in the South (1948), by Ruth Park

Posted by: Lisa Hill on July 18, 2010

Swords and Crowns and Rings (1977), by Ruth Park

Posted by: Lisa Hill on September 29, 2009

The Shiralee (1955), by D’Arcy Niland, read by Ivor Kants

Posted by: Lisa Hill on May 16, 2009