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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The Transit of Venus
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to…
Author:
Shirley Hazzard
Publisher:
Hachette Australia
Published year:
1980
To the Islands
This masterpiece of Australian fiction was written by Randolph Stow when he was just twenty-two. It …
Year:
Tertiary
Author:
Randolph Stow
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Published year:
1958
Randolph Stow
Randolph Stow, winner of the Patrick White Award in 1979, was born in Geraldton, Western Australia in 1935. As an undergraduate he published two novels and a collection of poems. Stow tutored in English at the University of Adelaide, studied …
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Tirra Lirra by the River
Liza used to say that she saw her past life as a string of roughly-graded balls, and so did Hilda …
Year:
Secondary, Year 12
Author:
Jessica Anderson
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Published year:
1978
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Jessica Anderson
Jessica Anderson was born in Queensland in 1916 and began writing novels at the age of 40. Since then she has received many awards for her work. Twice she has won the prestigious Miles Franklin award, for Tirra Lirra By the River in 1978 and for The…
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The Time We Have Taken
"That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken, our moment." 1970, Glenroy. One summer's …
Author:
Steven Carroll
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Published year:
2007
Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll was born in Melbourne and grew up in Glenroy. He went to La Trobe University and taught English in high schools before playing in bands in the 1970s. After leaving the music scene he began writing as a playwright and became the theatre…
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That Deadman Dance
'Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up …
Year:
Secondary, Year 12
Author:
Kim Scott
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Published year:
2010
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