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Café Scheherazade

Essay by Angelo Loukakis In Café Scheherazade, Arnold Zable has harnessed anecdote and history…

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Book Author: Arnold Zable Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2001

Carpentaria

Essay by Meera Atkinson I first read the fiction of Alexis Wright when I was writing a thesis on …

Year: Secondary Book Author: Alexis Wright Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Published year: 2006

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Carry Me Down

Essay by Chris Womersley Maria (MJ) Hyland's extraordinary second novel, Carry Me Down, was …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Book Author: M. J. Hyland Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2006

Cloudstreet

Essay by Lyn McCredden Reading Tim Winton's rollicking, heartbreaking, hopeful saga, Cloudstreet…

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Book Author: Tim Winton Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1991

Collected Stories

Essay by Debra Adelaide As I write this essay the cicadas are shrill outside. The air is heavy and…

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Book Author: Janette Turner Hospital Publisher: UQP Published year: 1995

Dark Roots: and short story writing

Essay by Amy Gray Short stories are often the unsung virtuosos of literature. Gone is the luxury of…

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Book Author: Cate Kennedy Publisher: Scribe Published year: 2012

Death Sentence

Essay by Bernadette Brennan Has our public language really deteriorated to the point where we no…

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Don Watson Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2004

Dimboola

By Judith Rodriguez Dimboola's title is a great start to the play that was first performed in 1969…

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Book Author: Jack Hibberd Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1968

Dobson: Collected Poems

Essay by Peter Goldsworthy 'Wonder' is probably Rosemary Dobson's second most favourite word. As …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Book Author: Rosemary Dobson Publisher: UQP Published year: 2012

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Don’t Call Me Ishmael

Essay by Miriam Cosic It's not easy having a weird name, as many teenagers with foreign or …

Year: Secondary, Year 8 Book Author: Michael Gerard Bauer Publisher: Scholastic Australia Published year: 2006