A man returns to his hometown two decades after a massacre of local Aboriginal people, where former residents have reunited to celebrate the progress and prosperity of their community, to insist that the town confront its dark past.

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In the bleak outback town of Drylands, Janet Deakin runs a newsagency and writes a novel for the world's last reader.

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Wresting his family from the easy living of 19th-century Sydney, Cornelius Laffey takes them to northern Queensland where thousands of hopefuls are digging for gold in the mud. They confront the horror of Aboriginal dispossession, and Cornelius is sacked for reporting the slaughter. An unforgettable tale of the other side of Australia's heritage.

A woman becomes obsessed with the story of a long-dead colonial pioneer, and her research becomes a way of coming to terms with her own past.

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Traces the lead-up to and aftermath of a bloody showdown when the superintendent of a Queensland mission goes on a murderous rampage in 1930.

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Thea Astley's first novel, back in print.

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Thea Astley is in top form in this 1965 Miles Franklin Award winner.

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First published by Angus and Roberton, 1960.

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Only the force of a hurricane could reveal the deepest currents of their ordinary lives.

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Thea Astley's brilliant satire on old age shimmers with grief and irony. One of Australia's most important novelists, Thea Astley, is at her most wickedly funny and pertinent in Coda.