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Well, I probably should have posted this ages ago because I met the challenge some time earlier. I had vowed to concentrate on histories written by Australian women, and I didn’t do particularly well at that. A resolution for 2016 perhaps? Nonetheless… here’s the wrap-up, roughly in the order in which I read them, for what it’s worth.
Fiction
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
Heat and Light by Ellen van Neerven
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
A Short History of Richardby Klein by Amanda Lohrey
The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
The Girl with the Dogs by Anna Funder
The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop
Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
Medea’s Curse by Anne Buist
The Fine Colour of Rust by P. A. O’Reilly
Nine Days by Toni Jordan
The Strays by Emily Bitto
Charades by Janette Turner Hospital
Non-Fiction
In Good Faith? Governing Indigenous Australia through God Charity and Empire 1822-1855 by Jessie Mitchell
Restless Men: Masculinity and Robinson Crusoe 1788-1840 by Karen Dowling
This House of Grief by Helen Garner
The Invisible History of the Human Race by Christine Keneally
Melbourne by Sophie Cunningham
Savage or Civilized? Manners in Colonial History by Penny Russell
The Hanged Man and the Body Thief: Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery by Alexandra Roginsky
The Boyds: a family biography by Brenda Niall
Warrior by Libby Connors