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ENG 12 - Extension 2 : Award Winning Writers

Sydney Writers Festival Podcasts

Literary Awards

Australian Writers

Australia’s Best Authors

Helen Garner

Kate Grenville

Christos Tsiolkas

Markus Zusak

Charlotte Wood

Amanda Lohrey

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Books in the Library

Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
Call Number: F GAR

ISBN: 9781922268358

Publication Date: 1977 (This edition 2019)

Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece. It shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature.
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Call Number: SEN F GRE

ISBN: 9781921145254

Publication Date: 2005

In spare, unpretentious prose, Grenville charts the brutal truth that violence breeds violence. An outstanding study of cultures in collision as colonisers claim Aboriginal land in the Hawksbury.
The Turning by Tim Winton
Call Number: F WIN

ISBN: 0330422081

Publication Date: 2005

Tim Winton writes 17 overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret set in the brooding small-town world of coastal Western Australia. These stories examine the darkness and frailty of ordinary people and celebrate the moments when the light shines through.
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
Call Number: F ZUS

ISBN: 9781760559922

Publication Date: 2018

The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and fight, and learn to reckon with the adult world.