Evil Genius
Essay by Beth Driscoll
Evil Genius is set in real-world Sydney, but it is driven by a compelling …
Year:
Secondary, Year 8
Book Author: Catherine Jinks
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Published year:
2005
The Natural Way of Things
Essay by Anne Summers
It is almost impossible to believe: ten young women, all of them aged under…
Year:
Secondary, Year 12
Book Author: Charlotte Wood
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Published year:
2015
Vampyre
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
Just Macbeth!
Essay by Mark Isaacs
Just Macbeth! is Shakespeare like I’ve never read him before. It’s …
Year:
Secondary, Year 7
Book Author: Andy Griffiths
Illustrator: Terry Denton
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Published year:
2009
The Divine Wind
Essay by Alice Pung
A generation living in peacetime is inclined to devalue the identity and place …
Year:
Secondary, Year 9
Book Author: Garry Disher
Publisher:
Hachette Australia
Published year:
1999
The Lost Thing
Essay by Gary Crew
Written and illustrated by Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing (2000) prompts readers to …
Year:
Secondary, Year 7, Year 8
Book Author: Shaun Tan
Publisher:
Hachette Australia
Published year:
2000
By the River
Essay by Felicity Plunkett
by the river evokes the textures of a small Australian town in 1962 …
Year:
Secondary, Year 9
Book Author: Steven Herrick
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Published year:
2004
A Mother’s Disgrace
Essay by Kerryn Goldsworthy
On the day that Robert Dessaix first came face to face with his birth …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11, Year 12
Book Author: Robert Dessaix
Publisher:
Angus & Robertson
Published year:
1994
Hotel Sorrento 2
Essay by Kate Mulvany
I’m Meg, I think...
That is...
I’m a writer from a small Australian…
Year:
Secondary, Year 11, Year 12
Book Author: Hannie Rayson
Publisher:
Currency Press
Published year:
1990
Blackrock
Essay by Finegan Kruckemeyer
The first notion that comes to my mind upon studying Blackrock – …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11
Book Author: Nick Enright
Publisher:
Currency Press
Published year:
1996