Andrew McGahan
Andrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, but has lived and worked mostly in Brisbane. His first novel Praise (1992) was winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Since then his writing includes an award-winning stage play, Bait, and the AFI…
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Voss
Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and…
Year:
Tertiary
Author:
Patrick White
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Published year:
1957
Patrick White
Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote …
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The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
On the shores of Botany Bay lies an oil refinery where workers are free to come and go – but they …
Author:
David Ireland
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Published year:
1971
David Ireland
David Ireland was born in 1927 on a kitchen table in Lakemba in south-western Sydney. He lived in many places and worked at many jobs, including greenskeeper, factory hand, and for an extended period in an oil refinery, before he became a full-time …
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Truth
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment …
Year:
Secondary, Year 12
Author:
Peter Temple
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Published year:
2010
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Peter Temple
Peter Temple is the author of nine novels, including four books in the Jack Irish series. He has won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction five times, and his widely acclaimed novels have been published in over twenty countries.
The Broken Shore won…
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True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia…
Year:
Secondary, Year 11
Author:
Peter Carey
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Published year:
2001
Teacher Resource
Essay
Peter Carey
Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and now lives in New York. He is the author of fourteen novels (including one for children), two volumes of short stories, and two books on travel. Amongst other prizes, Carey has won the Booker Prize …
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Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard is author of the award-winning novel The Great Fire (Virago 2004). Her other novels include Greene on Capri, a memoir of Graham Greene, and five works of fiction, including The Transit of Venus, winner of the 1981 National Book …
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