Jack Hibberd
Jack Hibberd is one of the most innovative Australian playwrights of his generation. His career began in 1967 and his prolific output extends vigorously into the new century. His early plays have endured the test of time and continue to be performed…
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Jack Davis
Jack Davis (1917–1999) began writing when he was fourteen years old. The fourth child in a family of eleven, he spent his childhood in the West Australian mill town of Yarloop. He worked for several years as a stockman in the north before returning…
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J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting For The Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003…
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Ivan Southall
Ivan Southall was the first Australian author to receive the Carnergie Medal, and was awarded the Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year on three occasions. An icon of Australian children's literature, he wrote over sixty books in his …
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It’s Raining in Mango
Wresting his family from the easy living of nineteenth–century Sydney, Cornelius Laffey takes them…
Year:
Secondary, Year 10
Author:
Thea Astley
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Published year:
1989
Teacher Resource
Essay
Isobelle Carmody
Isobelle Carmody is Australia's most highly acclaimed author of fantasy titles for older readers. She began her first book,Obernewtyn, when she was fourteen and since then she has written some of our greatest works of fantasy. Whilst she is perhaps …
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Isabella’s Garden
Following the well known structure of The House That Jack Built, Isabella's Garden tells the tale of…
Year:
Foundation, Primary
Author:
Glenda Millard
Illustrator:
Rebecca Cool
Publisher:
Walker Books Australia
Published year:
2009
Teacher Resource
Isabel Flick
The remarkable life story of a leading Aboriginal community activist who grew up in a camp in …
Author:
Heather Goodall, Isabel Flick
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Published year:
2004
Iris and the Tiger
Twelve-year-old Iris has been sent to Spain on a mission: to make sure her elderly and unusual aunt…
Author:
Leanne Hall
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Published year:
2016