Novels

The Children’s Bach

Athena and Dexter lead an enclosed family life, innocent of fashion and bound towards a disturbed …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Helen Garner Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1984

Teacher Resource Essay

In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Hannah Kent Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Published year: 2014

Teacher Resource

Outside, the rain continues unceasing; silver sheets sluicing down, the trees and shrubs soaking and…

Author: Georgia Blain Publisher: Scribe Published year: 2016

‘Imagine the entire population of Melbourne abandoning their homes and taking to the road in …

Author: George Johnston Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Published year: 1960

When a mysterious cannibal pot is discovered by Steven Messenger, it is only one of the many bizarre…

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Author: Gary Crew Publisher: Hachette Australia, Hachette Childrens Published year: 1990

Teacher Resource Essay

Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the …

Author: Gail Jones Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia, Viking Published year: 2005

On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Gail Jones Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2011

Teacher Resource Essay

Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. On a train from Paris…

Author: Frank Moorhouse Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 1993

In the history of Australian literature few books have been so controversial than Frank Hardy's …

Author: Frank Hardy Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1950

Fergus Hume’s sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia’s original blockbuster …

Author: Fergus Hume Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1886