Henry Handel Richardson
Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson was born into an affluent Melbourne family in 1870. Her father Walter was a doctor of medicine. When Richardson was nine, her father died of syphilis after being admitted to Melbourne’s Kew mental asylum. His …
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Helen Garner
Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong, and was educated there and at Melbourne University. She taught in Victorian secondary schools until 1972, when she was dismissed for answering her students’ questions about sex, and had to start writing …
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Heather Potter
Heather Potter is an illustrator based in Melbourne. She has co-illustrated several books with her husband, Mark Jackson, and their work has been featured in several exhibitions. Their first Walker Book together was picture book Not Like Georgie by …
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Heather Goodall
Heather Goodall lectures in history at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is author of Invasion to Embassy…
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Heat and Light
In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven leads readers on a journey that is mythical…
Year:
Secondary, Year 12
Author:
Ellen van Neerven
Publisher:
UQP
Published year:
2014
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Hazel Rowley
Hazel Rowley is also the author of Richard Wright: The Life and Times and most recently Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (translated into more than a dozen languages). She has been a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, a fellow at …
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The Hate Race
Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11, Year 12
Author:
Maxine Beneba Clarke
Publisher:
Hachette Australia
Published year:
2016
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The Harp in the South
Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11
Author:
Ruth Park
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Published year:
1948
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Essay
The Happiness Box
An inspiring narrative nonfiction picture book by award winners Mark Greenwood and Andrew McLean.
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Year:
Primary, Year 4
Author:
Mark Greenwood
Illustrator:
Andrew McLean
Publisher:
Walker Books Australia
Published year:
2018
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Hannie Rayson
Hannie Rayson has established a reputation for topical, complex dramas written with wit and humour. A graduate of Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts, she has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from La Trobe University and is a …
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