Novels

Past the Shallows

Joe, Miles, and Harry are growing up on the remote southern coast of Tasmania - a stark, untamed …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Favel Parrett Publisher: Hachette Australia Published year: 2014

Teacher Resource

Fergus Hume’s sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia’s original blockbuster …

Author: Fergus Hume Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1886

In the history of Australian literature few books have been so controversial than Frank Hardy's …

Author: Frank Hardy Publisher: Random House Australia, Vintage Australia Published year: 1950

Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. On a train from Paris…

Author: Frank Moorhouse Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 1993

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

Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the …

Author: Gail Jones Publisher: Penguin Australia, Viking Published year: 2005

When a mysterious cannibal pot is discovered by Steven Messenger, it is only one of the many bizarre…

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Author: Gary Crew Publisher: Hachette Australia, Hachette Childrens Published year: 1990

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

Outside, the rain continues unceasing; silver sheets sluicing down, the trees and shrubs soaking and…

Author: Georgia Blain Publisher: Scribe Published year: 2016

In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal …

Author: Hannah Kent Publisher: Pan Macmillan Published year: 2014