Bryce Courtenay’s The Power of One tops a list that reveals Australia’s appetite for a cracking yarn – but let’s not mistake this for a new literary canon
They are the books you see in rented beach houses or in the communal pile at backpacker hostels, left behind by travellers wanting to lighten their load. They’re the books on a waiting list at public libraries, chosen by book clubs, and reviewed in (non-literary) magazines.
They are not necessarily great books but they are good books, books that people read, enjoy, talk about, lend to others, escape into and re-read over the years.
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