Prose Fiction
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Common Module Buy From Amazon- HSC Year 12 Prescribed Texts
- Common Module: English Standard, English Advanced and English Studies
- Texts and Human Experiences
- Prose Fiction
Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
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Feed by M.T. Anderson
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- Standard Module B
- Close Study of Literature
- Prose Fiction
The tour de force that set the gold standard for dystopian YA fiction – in a compelling paperback edition.For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon – a chance to party during spring break. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its ever-present ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. M. T. Anderson’s not-so-brave new world is a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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- Common Module: English Standard, English Advanced and English Studies
- Texts and Human Experiences
- Prose Fiction
‘Who controls the past controls the future- who controls the present controls the past’
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.
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Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
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- Common Module: English Standard, English Advanced and English Studies
- Texts and Human Experiences
- Prose Fiction
Everyone loves Harry. Everyone except his father.
Three brothers, Joe, Miles and Harry, are growing up on the remote south coast of Tasmania. The brother’ lives are shaped by their father’s moods – like the ocean he fishes, his is wild and unpredictable. He is a bitter man, warped by a devastating secret.
Miles tries his best to watch out for Harry, the youngest, but he can’t be there all the time. Often alone, Harry finds joy in the small treasure he discovers, in the shark eggs and cuttlefish bones. In a kelpie pup, a big mug of Milo, and a secret friendship with a mysterious neighbour. But sometimes small treasures, or a brother’s love, are not enough.
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Small Island by Andrea Levy
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- Standard Module A
- Language, Identity and Culture
- Prose Fiction
It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh s neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn t know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It s desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie and knock at her door. Gilbert s wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time by Mark Haddon
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- Standard Module B
- Close Study of Literature
- Prose Fiction
Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour’s lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets – for both Christopher and the rest of his family.
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The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson
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- Standard Module A
- Language, Identity and Culture
- Prose Fiction
‘The Drover’s Wife’, ‘The Union Buries Its Dead’, ‘Shooting the Moon’, ‘Our Pipes’, ‘The
Loaded Dog’One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of the Australian national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how Australian’s view their country. Yet at his best Lawson transcends even the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub or selector’s hut he conveys with such brevity and acuity- he makes specific places universal.
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Vertigo by Amanda Lohrey
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- Common Module: English Standard, English Advanced and English Studies
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- Prose Fiction
Luke and Anna decide on a sea-change. They leave the city, fleeing a past and a future that fill them with fear. On the coast they discover a natural world that is both destructive and rejuvenating. Events sweep them up and they must confront what they have tried to put behind them.
Vertigo is a fable of love and awakening, a bush pastoral about the unexpected way emotions can return and life can change.
