Wai Chim is a first generation Chinese-American from New York City. She grew up speaking Cantonese at home and absorbing Western culture through books, TV and school. She spent some time living in Japan before making Sydney, Australia her permanent …
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Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and…
Vivian Pham is a Vietnamese-Australian fiction writer, closet poet, amateur screenwriter, university student and hopeful dropout if any of the aforementioned ventures take flight. Her father was a Vietnamese boat refugee, and she grew up loving …
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Violet Mackerel thinks she would quite like to own the blue china bird at the Saturday markets. …
Vikki Wakefield writes realist fiction for young adults. Her work explores coming-of-age, family, class, relationships and the lives of contemporary teens. Her novels All I Ever Wanted, Friday Brown, Inbetween Days and Ballad for a Mad Girl have been…
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Victor Kelleher remains one of Australia's most celebrated writers for both adults and children. Born in London, he lived in Africa for twenty years before moving to New Zealand, where he began to write, prompted by homesickness for Africa. He moved …
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Luke and Anna, thirty-something and restless, decide on a sea change. Worn down by city life and …
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Velocity tells the moving, painful but often hilarious story of Mandy Sayer's childhood and …
Following some food, a curious young sparrow stows away in the back of a truck and takes an unusual …
I am Vampyre. Feared. Despised. I live in darkness. I long for light. From the dark depths of his …
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