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Reading Victoria Shortlist

Take yourself on a journey through Victoria this summer by reading our selection of 20 contemporary and classic novels set in this state.



Cafe Scheherazade

Warm stories of life set in St. Kilda and the historic caf?.




Players

Black comedy exploring the relationship between football, celebrity and the media.




Loaded

Young gay suburban Greek man struggles against his sexuality.




Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living

Scientific farming in the Mallee of the 1930s.




The Broken Shore

Police corruption, racial tensions and over-development in coastal Victoria.




On the Beach

Classic journey into the darkness of the Nuclear Age.




Three Dollars

Examination of contemporary Australian society, set in Melbourne’s inner city.




Sunnyside

Satire on suburban life.




Stiff

First in the Murray Whelan series.




Picnic at Hanging Rock

Valentine's Day, 1900. A party of schoolgirls go on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some never return.




My Brother Jack

Growing up in Melbourne before and during World War II.




Of a Boy

1977. Three children go to buy ice-cream and never come back home.




Power without Glory

Fictional life of John Wren in Collingwood during the Depression.




The Getting of Wisdom

Coming of age in 1880s Melbourne.




The Dressmaker

1950s rural Victoria.




Cocaine Blues

First in the Phyrne Fisher series.




Monkey Grip

Inner-city Melbourne in the 1970s-80s.




The Art of the Engine Driver

Evocative tale of ordinary suburban lives.




True History of the Kelly Gang

Written as a sequence of letters by the bushranger Ned Kelly.




Shadowboxing

Growing up in 1960s Fitzroy.


 
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