Australian publishing house Text are in the midst of an ambitious project to resurface a number of 'lost' classics. What's the Australian novel you couldn't live without – and why?
Fallen from fashion ... novelist Nevil
Shute. Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images
Australian publishing house
Text are in the midst of an ambitious project
to publish a number of "lost" or never-published Australian classics, including
Elizabeth Harrower's The Watch Tower and Patrick
White's first novel Happy Valley – a whole army of wonderful books that have
fallen from view.
It's striking how much
great writing there is to be rediscovered – and Text are publishing them
beautifully, with their distinctive yellow jackets, bold art work and new
introductions. Another
20 or so books are planned for this year, including Tim Flannery's The
Explorers and William Nagle's The Odd Angry Shot.
Who would you like to see added to the list? Is it time Nevil Shute's On the
Beach, set in Australia after a global nuclear holocaust, reached a whole new
readership? Is Patrick White overrated? Do you have an Australian novel –
neglected or not – you couldn't live without? Leave a comment
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