On this page you will find links to eReserve digital copies of Australian prose excerpts for use in Speech + Drama. This selection also includes works from New Zealand.

Click on the title of the work to view file.

Bibliographic details for reference purposes can be accessed via the catalogue link beside each title. 

Biographical/Semi-Biographical

• A Fence Around the Cuckoo / Ruth Park - Catalogue Link
• A Fortunate Life / A B Facey - Catalogue Link
• Unreliable Memoirs / Clive James - Catalogue Link

Children's literature

• Lockie Leonard Legend / Tim Winton - Catalogue Link
  

Classics

• For the Term of his Natural Life / Marcus Clarke - Catalogue Link

Fantasy

• Scatterlings / Isobelle Carmody - Trove Link

Historical Fiction

• The Power of One / Bryce Courtenay - Catalogue Link
• Remembering Babylon / David Malouf - Catalogue Link

Mystery

• Jasper Jones / Craig Silvey - Catalogue Link
• Picnic at Hanging Rock / Joan Lindsay (1) - Catalogue Link
• Picnic at Hanging Rock / Joan Lindsay (2)

Relationships/Romance

• The Children's Bach / Helen Garner - Catalogue Link
• The Sound of One Hand Clapping / Richard Flanagan - Catalogue Link

Short Stories

• The Dark, the Light / Helen Garner - Catalogue Link
• The First Dance / Penelope Rowe - Catalogue Link

War

• Fly Away Peter / David Malouf - Catalogue Link
• The Merry-go-round in the Sea / Randolph Stow - Catalogue Link

Young Adult

• Looking for Alibrandi / Melina Marchetta - Catalogue Link

On this page you will find links to eReserve digital copies of English prose excerpts for use in Speech + Drama. This selection also includes Irish & Scottish work.

Click on the title of the work to view file.

Bibliographic details for reference purposes can be accessed via the catalogue link beside each title.

Biographical/Semi-Biographical

• Angela's Ashes / Frank McCourt - Catalogue Link
• Down and Out in Paris and London / George Orwell - Catalogue Link
• Father and Son / Edmund Gosse - Catalogue Link
• My Family and Other Animals / Gerald Durrell - Catalogue Link

Children's Literature

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll - Catalogue Link
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe / C S Lewis - Catalogue Link
• Matilda / Roald Dahl - Catalogue Link
• The Second Jungle Book / Rudyard Kipling - Catalogue Link
• The Secret Garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett - Catalogue Link
• Wind in the Willows / Grahame Kenneth - Catalogue Link
• Witches / Roald Dahl - Catalogue Link

Classics

• Great Expectations / Charles Dickens - Catalogue Link
• Hard Times / Charles Dickens - Catalogue Link
• Jane Eyre/ Charlotte Bronte - Catalogue Link
• Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens - Catalogue Link
• Persuasion / Jane Austen - Catalogue Link
• Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen - Catalogue Link
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy - Catalogue Link

Gothic/Horror

• Frankenstein / Mary Shelley - Catalogue Link
• The Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde - Catalogue Link

Historical Fiction

• English Passengers / Matthew Kneale - Trove Link
• Fools Sanctuary / Jennifer Johnston - Catalogue Link
• Reading in the Dark / Seamus Deane - Trove Link

Literary Fiction

• 1984 / George Orwell - Catalogue Link
• The Lord of the Flies / William Golding - Catalogue Link

Relationships/Romance

•  Captain Corelli's Mandolin / Louis de Bernières - Catalogue Link

Satire

• Vernon God Little / DBC Pierre - Catalogue Link

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

• The Hobbit / J R R Tolkien - Catalogue Link
• Life, the Universe, and Everything / Douglas Adams - Catalogue Link
• Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers / Grant Naylor - Catalogue Link
• The Return of the King / J R R Tolkien - Catalogue Link
• The Two Towers / J R R Tolkien - Catalogue Link
• Wyrd Sisters / Terry Pratchett - Catalogue Link

Short Stories

• The Hitchhiker / Roald Dahl - Catalogue Link
• Lamb to the Slaughter / Roald Dahl - Catalogue Link
• Taste / Roald Dahl - Catalogue Link

On this page you will find links to eReserve digital copies of World prose excerpts for use in Speech + Drama.

Click on the title of the work to view file.

Bibliographic details for reference purposes can be accessed via the catalogue link beside each title.

Relationships/Romance

• Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert - Catalogue Link

Social Criticism

• Cry, the Beloved Country / Alan Paton - Catalogue Link