![]() ![]() ![]() One of the most anticipated Australian novels of 2021. Since then, Garner has become somewhat of an Australian literary hero and if you're going to read her, you might as well start at the beginning. ![]() Author Michael Mohammed Ahmad is the director of Sweatshop, a movement that creates creative space for culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Western Sydney.Īt a time when Australian literature was all about Drovers and their wives, Helen Garner stepped in unveiling a lifestyle of communal households, music, drugs and sex - one thought only to exist in the US. Set in Bankstown during the early aughts - a time in Australia that was blackened with anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment - The Lebs is a satire of the homogenising paint brush of White Australia. Below, we're rounding up 35 Australian books from the country's first and original storytellers to the voices, cemented and emerging, as well as those who have suffered under our systems. ![]()
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