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By the River

A memorable YA novel about the tough and tender sides of growing up in a small country town. …

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Author: Steven Herrick Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2004

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The Divine Wind

Friendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don't, or as we form …

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Author: Garry Disher Publisher: Hachette Australia Published year: 1999

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Zac and Mia

The last person Zac expects in the room next door is a girl like Mia, angry and feisty with …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: A.J. Betts Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2013

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Gwen Harwood: Collected Poems

OUT OF PRINT This generous-sized collection contains all six published volumes, as well as most …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Gwen Harwood, Alison Hoddinott, Gregory Kratzmann Publisher: UQP Published year: 2003

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Richard Flanagan Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2014

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My Brilliant Career

Passionate, headstrong and imaginative, Sybylla Melvyn is one of the most endearing heroines of …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Miles Franklin Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Published year: 1901

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Miss Peabody’s Inheritance

"Elizabeth Jolley joins the handful of Australian writers of whom it may be said that their books …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Elizabeth Jolley Publisher: UQP Published year: 1980

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It’s Raining in Mango

Wresting his family from the easy living of nineteenth–century Sydney, Cornelius Laffey takes them…

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Thea Astley Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1989

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The Harp in the South

Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Ruth Park Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1948

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For the Term of His Natural Life

The classic novel of convict Australia, For the Term of His Natural Life is a novel of tremendous …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Marcus Clarke Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 1874

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