The Man Booker Prize is one of the best known international literature prizes. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland and Zimbabwe. The winner is assured of international renown and success. [...]
Melbourne Writer’s Festival – reviews
In late August fifty Xavier students from Years 9, 10 and 11 attended the Melbourne Writers Festival, an annual event in Melbourne which showcases not only a large number of Australian authors but also international authors. One author who featured at the festival was Stephen Herrick. Stephen is very well known for his [...]
Review: Jasper Jones
“Jasper Jones” is the second novel by Australian author Craig Silvey. The novel is set in a small West Australian country town in the 1960’s. The central character is a bookish adolescent, Charlie Bucktin. Charlie is a precocious teenager, an only child, who spends most of his time in the world of books, reading [...]
Mister Monday: student book review
Mister Monday by Garth Nix Arthur Penhaligon, 12 years of age, has just moved into a new town. He’s trying his best to fit in, but everything is hard when no-one knows you. His life is made harder at school, where he suffers an asthma attack during a P.E class. But a mysterious, key-shaped object [...]
Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
Sixteenth century Italy was a time in history when young women found themselves being forced into convent life against their will. The price of wedding dowries was so high that Italian aristocratic families could choose only one daughter to be married off. Any other daughters in the family were sent to convents where the cost [...]
