Essays

Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature

Essay by Elizabeth Webby What is an anthology? The term comes from two Greek words meaning ‘…

Book Author: Nicholas Jose Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2008

Essay by Germaine Greer The Jerilderie Letter was written for publication, but it is not a work of…

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Ned Kelly Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1879

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

Essay by Susan K. Martin My Brilliant Career opens with a howl: the very first words of the story…

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Book Author: Miles Franklin Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Published year: 1901

Essay by Hilary Bell When Away premiered at Griffin Theatre in January 1986 I was nineteen and just…

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Michael Gow Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1986

Essay by Judith Rodriguez 'Away', as a title, gives little away. It's a common word that's …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Michael Gow Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1986

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

Essay by Alice Pung When I first read Melina Marchetta's much-loved book, Looking…

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Book Author: Melina Marchetta Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1992

Essay by Felicity Castagna The underlying theme in Marcus Zusak’s novels is ordinariness. Whether…

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Markus Zusak Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Published year: 2002

By Dmetri Kakmi Published in 2011, Margaret Wild’s picture book Vampyre is a hallucinatory …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Book Author: Margaret Wild Illustrator: Andrew Yeo Publisher: Walker Books Australia Published year: 2011