Jill Jones
Jill Jones is a Sydney poet and writer. Her work has been published extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA and UK. Her first book, The Mask and the Jagged Star, won the Mary Gilmore Award in 1993. The Book of Possibilities, 1997, was …
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The Year of Living Dangerously
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos – to an abortive …
Author:
Christopher Koch
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Published year:
1978
Christopher Koch
Christopher Koch was born and educated in Tasmania. Most of his life was spent in Sydney, where he worked for some years as a radio producer in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was a full-time writer from 1972, winning international …
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The White Earth
One spring day in late 1992, when William was halfway between his eighth birthday and his ninth, he …
Year:
Secondary, Year 11
Author:
Andrew McGahan
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Published year:
2005
Teacher Resource
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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
Teacher Resource
Essay 1
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