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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Essay by Tony Birch Thomas Keneally's novel The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972) is based in part…

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Book Author: Thomas Keneally Publisher: Angus & Robertson Published year: 1972

The Boat

Essay by Catherine Cole Nam Le's The Boat is one of the most impressive short story collections …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Nam Le Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2009

The Arrival

Essay by Libby Gleeson Australian picture books enjoy enormous success nationally and …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Shaun Tan Publisher: Hachette Australia Published year: 2006

The 7 Stages of Grieving

Essay by Melissa Lucashenko Is it possible to feel too much? For millennia, stories from around …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Wesley Enoch Publisher: Playlab Published year: 1996

That Deadman Dance

Essay by Patrick Allington The shortlist for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award, which …

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

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Tell Me I’m Here

Essay by Stephanie Dowrick A short way into Tell Me I’m Here, Anne Deveson’s magnificent …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Anne Deveson Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1991

Swallow the Air

Essay by Melissa Lucashenko This novel by Tara June Winch is a narrative of a broken family, of …

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

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Essay by Michael Gurr What frightened the author, director and cast on the opening night of the …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Book Author: Ray Lawler Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1955

Strange Objects

Essay by Pamela Freeman The wreck of the Dutch ship Batavia on the coast of Western Australia in…

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

Stasiland

Essay by Malcolm Knox Stasiland is one of the finest works of journalism produced anywhere in the …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Book Author: Anna Funder Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2003