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

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

A dazzling, compassionate and deeply moving novel from one of world literature's rising stars. A …

Author: Michelle de Kretser Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2012

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

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

An Australian classic, first published in 1903. Described by its author as of 'temper democratic; …

Year: Tertiary Author: Joseph Furphy Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing Published year: 1903

When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Tara June Winch Publisher: UQP Published year: 2006

Teacher Resource Essay

'Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Kim Scott Publisher: Pan Macmillan Published year: 2010

Teacher Resource Essay

The flowers flared up from the ground unconquerable. The unrepentant gaiety of the weed, the burning…

Author: Kylie Tennant Publisher: Angus & Robertson Published year: 1941