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memory

Inside My Mother

In her memoir Too Afraid to Cry, published in 2013, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann related how …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Ali Cobby Eckermann Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Published year: 2015

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Cafe Scheherazade

"In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade." Thus begins Arnold Zable’s …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Arnold Zable Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2001

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Remembering Lionsville

This beautiful book for the whole family tells, in words and pictures, Bronwyn Bancroft's unique and…

Year: Primary, Year 3 Author: Bronwyn Bancroft Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2016

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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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Five Bells

On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Gail Jones Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 2011

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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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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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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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The Floating World

The story of a returned serviceman's descent into madness on a cruise ship bound for Japan. …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: John Romeril Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1975

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The ABC Book of Australian Poetry

'I am the river, gently flowing, as I wind my way to the sea.' (Mary Duroux) Follow the river of …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Libby Hathorn Illustrator: Cassandra Allen Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Published year: 2010

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