Random House Australia Archives

Voss

Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and…

Year: Tertiary Author: Patrick White Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 1957

Hurtle Duffield, a painter, is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women…

Author: Patrick White Publisher: Random House Australia, Vintage Australia Published year: 1970

A young singer runs into the desert of gold rush Kalgoorlie; Chagall comes to Paris in the twenties…

Author: Joan London Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2004

A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Richard Flanagan Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2014

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

Thirty-one epic stories from Australia's award-winning author David Malouf. David Malouf's …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: David Malouf Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2007

Teacher Resource Essay

A timeless collection of stories exploring physical and psychological boundaries, some tentatively …

Author: Frank Moorhouse Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 1972

In this exquisite gem of a novel, Achilles is maddened by grief at the death of his friend Patroclus…

Author: David Malouf Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2010

‘Frank, enraging and captivating.' The New Yorker Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Geraldine Brooks Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2008

Teacher Resource Essay 1 Essay 2

The first novel from the author of the bestselling The Slap. Families can detonate. Some families…

Author: Christos Tsiolkas Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2011