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Full of unforgettable characters, a page-turning pace and outrageously good dialogue, this is a …
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Full of unforgettable characters, a page-turning pace and outrageously good dialogue, this is a …
Teacher ResourceWresting his family from the easy living of nineteenth–century Sydney, Cornelius Laffey takes them…
Teacher Resource EssayThea Astley was one of Australia's most respected and acclaimed novelists. Born in Brisbane in 1925, Astley studied arts at the University of Queensland. She held a position as Fellow in Australian Literature at Macquarie University until 1980, when …
View Books by Thea AstleyBeverley Farmer was born in Melbourne in 1941. After graduating from the University of Melbourne she worked in the restaurant trade and taught English and French in secondary schools. In 1965 she married a Greek migrant and they went to live, for …
View Books by Beverley FarmerAn Australian woman returns alone to the Greek village house where she was once welcomed as a bride…
Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is …
Teacher Resource EssayMeet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. On a train from Paris…
Frank Moorhouse was born in the coastal town of Nowra, NSW. He worked as an editor of small-town newspapers and as an administrator and in the 1970s became a full-time writer. He has written fiction, non-fiction, screenplays and essays and edited …
View Books by Frank MoorhouseSome relevant facts about Grace Malloy. Apart from being named after a 100 000-year-old skeleton, …
Teacher Resource EssayRobert Drewe is the author of seven novels, four books of short stories, two memoirs, six other works of non-fiction and two plays. His work has been widely translated, and adapted for film, television, theatre and radio. In his mid-20s, and …
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