Australian novelist Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet.

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Cloudstreet is Australia’s top novel

Australian novelist Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet has been voted number one in ABC Radio National’s Top 100 Australian Books, from 280,000 reader votes. Australian author Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief placed second. Brisbane journalist and novelist Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe came third. Published in 1991, Cloudstreet follows two working-class families, the Lambs and the Pickles, through two decades under one roof in mid-century Perth. The novel, which won the Miles Franklin Award, has been adapted for radio, stage, opera and television.…