The Good Parents
Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts…
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Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts…
Joan London is the author of two prize-winning collections of stories, Sister Ships, which won the Age Book of the Year in 1986, and Letter to Constantine, which won the Steele Rudd Award in 1994 and the Premier's Award for Fiction. These collections…
View Books by Joan London'He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all . . . deep down in him, …
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 …
View Books by Henry Handel RichardsonThe classic novel of convict Australia, For the Term of His Natural Life is a novel of tremendous …
Teacher Resource EssayMarcus Clarke is best known for his classic novel of the convict system, For the Term of His Natural Life, although he also wrote numerous essays, stories and plays and edited literary journals. Born in London, educated as a gentleman and expected…
View Books by Marcus ClarkeOn a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House …
Teacher Resource EssayGail Jones lives in Sydney and teaches at the University of Western Sydney. Her books have won numerous literary awards in Australia. She is the author of two collections of short stories and five novels including Sixty Lights which was longlisted …
View Books by Gail Jones‘Imagine the entire population of Melbourne abandoning their homes and taking to the road in …
George Johnston was born in Melbourne in 1912, the son of working-class parents. At sixteen his career as a journalist was launched with the publication of several articles in the Melbourne Argus. By the time the Second World War broke out, Johnston…
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