Books

Grace

Some relevant facts about Grace Malloy. Apart from being named after a 100 000-year-old skeleton, …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Robert Drewe Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2006

Teacher Resource Essay

Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts…

Author: Joan London Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2008

'He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all . . . deep down in him, …

Year: Tertiary Author: Henry Handel Richardson Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing Published year: 1917

The classic novel of convict Australia, For the Term of His Natural Life is a novel of tremendous …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Marcus Clarke Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 1874

Teacher Resource Essay

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

‘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

The acclaimed story of Faith, a rock singer who lives in Kings Cross and Angel, a dreamy homeless …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Rosie Scott Publisher: Hachette Australia Published year: 2001

Teacher Resource Essay

There was once a man on a property outside a one-horse town, in New South Wales, who couldn’t come…

Author: Murray Bail Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2008

The author evokes with irony the bewilderment and frailty of the best native Tasmanians, as they …

Author: Mudrooroo Nyoongah (Colin Johnson) Publisher: Hyland House Published year: 1983

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-…

Author: J. M. Coetzee Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 1999