Vikki Wakefield
Vikki Wakefield writes realist fiction for young adults. Her work explores coming-of-age, family, class, relationships and the lives of contemporary teens. Her novels All I Ever Wanted, Friday Brown, Inbetween Days and Ballad for a Mad Girl have been…
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Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot
Violet Mackerel thinks she would quite like to own the blue china bird at the Saturday markets. …
Author:
Anna Branford
Illustrator:
Sarah Davis
Publisher:
Walker Books Australia
Published year:
2010
Vivian Pham
Vivian Pham is a Vietnamese-Australian fiction writer, closet poet, amateur screenwriter, university student and hopeful dropout if any of the aforementioned ventures take flight. Her father was a Vietnamese boat refugee, and she grew up loving …
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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
Wai Chim
Wai Chim is a first generation Chinese-American from New York City. She grew up speaking Cantonese at home and absorbing Western culture through books, TV and school. She spent some time living in Japan before making Sydney, Australia her permanent …
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Walk of the Whales
When all of the whales in the ocean leave their home to walk around on land, people don’t quite …
Year:
Primary
Author:
Nick Bland
Publisher:
Hardie Grant Publishing
Published year:
2021
Walking the Boundaries
Martin lives in the city with his mum. He's come to walk the boundaries of the farm that's been in …
Author:
Jackie French
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Published year:
2006
Wandjuk Marika: Life Story
Wandjuk Marika: Life Story is the autobiography of one of Australia's greatest indigenous statesmen…
Author:
Jennifer Isaacs
Publisher:
UQP
Published year:
1995
Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent
The long-awaited history that will change the way Australians think about their country.
The …
Author:
Michael Cathcart
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Published year:
2009
Waves
Waves is a narrative nonfiction book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia…
Year:
Primary, Year 4
Author:
Donna Rawlins
Illustrator:
Mark Jackson, Heather Potter
Publisher:
Walker Books Australia
Published year:
2018
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