Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop
by Amy Witting |
Tirra Lirra by the River
by Jessica Anderson | 
Mateship with Birds
by Carrie Tiffany |
The Golden Age
by Joan London |
Carpentaria
by Alexis Wright | 
The White Earth
by Andrew McGahan | 
Praise
by Andrew McGahan | 
Harland's Half Acre
by David Malouf |
Careful, He Might Hear You
by Sumner Locke Elliott |
Journey to the Stone Country
by Alex Miller | 
Eucalyptus
by Murray Bail |
Oyster
by Janette Turner Hospital |
The Great World
by David Malouf | 
The Shiralee
by D'Arcy Niland |
The Doubleman
by Christopher Koch | 
Three Dollars
by Elliot Perlman | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes |
Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily as an alien trying to pass for a native. Her collection of imaginary friends includes the Virgin Mary and Sherlock Holmes. Later she meets Byron, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. Isobel is not as much at ease with the flesh-and-blood people she meets, and least of all with herself, until a lucky encounter and a little detective work reveal her identity and her true situation in life.