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Alfred’s War

Alfred’s War is a powerful story that unmasks the lack of recognition given to Australian …

Year: Primary, Year 6 Author: Rachel Bin Salleh Illustrator: Samantha Fry Publisher: Magabala Books Published year: 2018

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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge lives next door to a nursing home. When he finds out that his …

Year: Primary, Year 1 Author: Mem Fox Illustrator: Julie Vivas Publisher: Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia Published year: 1984

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The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

"There will come a day when a thousand Illegals descend on your detention centres. Boomers will …

Author: Ambelin Kwaymullina Publisher: Walker Books Published year: 2012

The Complete Stories

Thirty-one epic stories from Australia's award-winning author David Malouf. David Malouf's …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: David Malouf Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2007

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Collected Stories

This collection brings together in one distinguished volume a range of stories written over twenty-…

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Janette Turner Hospital Publisher: UQP Published year: 1995

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The Boat

The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an aging New York …

Year: Secondary, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Nam Le Publisher: Penguin Australia Published year: 2009

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Harwood: Collected Poems 1943 – 1995

Harwood’s pseudonymous selves have made literary history, most famously perhaps as Walter Lehmann …

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

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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 Published year: 1978

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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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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 Australia Published year: 1989

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