{"id":5703,"count":4,"description":"Nicholas Jose recommends his best Australian novels<\/a>. For a more general introduction to Australian literature, go to Jose\u2019s Literature of Australia: An Anthology<\/em><\/a>, which he compiled with Thomas Keneally. There are also individually recommended Australian authors such as writers Jane Harper, <\/a>Peter Temple,<\/a> Alexis Wright<\/a> and multi-Booker Prize winner Peter Carey<\/a>.\r\n\r\nIf you're a historical fiction fan, Australian authors dominated the 2021 Walter Scott Prize shortlist<\/a>, with the chair of the judges commenting \"If Pip Williams<\/a>, Kate Grenville<\/a> and Steven Conte<\/a> set the standard, we can expect more literary treats to emerge from Australia in the years to come.\" Indeed the 2023 Walter Scott Prize shortlist<\/a> included the Australian historical novel The Sun Walks Down<\/em><\/a>.\r\n\r\nElsewhere in nonfiction, Dan Norcross talks about Australian cricket in his best books on cricket<\/a> and The Cook\u2019s Companion<\/em> <\/a>by one of Australia\u2019s most famous cooks, Stephanie Alexander, is recommended by two of our interviewees. \u00a0The Australian environmental philosopher, Denise Russell, chooses her best books on the sea<\/a>. And David Cannadine chooses his best books on the British Empire<\/a>.\r\n\r\nSeveral other Australian experts have given us their top book choices including philosopher Peter Singer introducing us to nineteenth-century of philosophy books,<\/a> author\u00a0James Bradley on climate change novels<\/a> and economist\u00a0John Quiggin recommends books for learning about economics.<\/a>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/australia\/","name":"Australia","slug":"australia","taxonomy":"category","parent":23,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/23"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5703"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5703"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}