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Ruth Starke Ruth Starke i(A16806 works by) (birth name: Ruth Elaine Toolin)
Also writes as: Laine Hall
Born: Established: 1946 Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 1 y separately published work icon Armistice Ruth Starke , David Kennett (illustrator), Sydney South : Working Title Press , 2018 12934234 2018 picture book children's

'In this companion to the award-winning, My Gallipoli, many voices will recall the day the Great War ended and the monthsthat followed before peace rang out around the world.

'On 11 November 1918, after four years of fighting, the Allied powers signed an agreement with Germany to end the Great War and to begin peace negotiations. The armistice, as it was known, took effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. But it would take more than seven months before peace would finally be declared at Versailles on 28 June 1919. The Great War was over. But the world as it had been known was changed forever.

'In this book, many voices recall the day the war ended,and the months that followed before peace rang out around the world. Armistice will bring these stories to life and is published to commemorate the 100th anniversary since the fighting stopped.' (Publication Summary)

1 Leah Kaminsky, The Waiting Room Ruth Starke , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 10 no. 1 2017;

'Haifa, Israel, May 2001, and a heavily pregnant woman, a doctor, is at the site of a bomb blast, picking her way carefully through the dead, perhaps looking for her husband who is not answering his phone. Her attention is suddenly caught by a coloured gemstone lying amid the rubble; ‘the last thing she sees before she passes out is a mangled body lying in a heap over in one corner. Red lipstick still perfectly frames the dead woman’s lips’.' (Introduction)

1 'Bitch-Slaps from Fate' : Four Recent Young Adult Novels Ruth Starke , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 382 2016; (p. 62-63)

— Review of Summer Skin Kirsty Eagar , 2016 single work novel ; Frankie Shivaun Plozza , 2016 single work novel ; Yellow Megan Jacobson , 2016 single work novel ; The Way We Roll Scot Gardner , 2016 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon The Boy With Silver Eyes 2015 9317584 2015 single work novel children's fiction adventure

We are giving South Australian schoolchildren the chance to become writers.

To mark The Advertiser Sunday Mail Children’s Literacy Month, we have started a progressive children’s novel, The Boy With Silver Eyes.

Every day for the next month, award-winning children’s author Ruth Starke will work with children from schools across the state as they take up the story, weaving a tale of suspense and adventure that, when it’s done, we will publish as an e-book. (The Advertiser 27 Feb, 2015)

1 Difficult Mothers : Four Recent Young Adult Novels Ruth Starke , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 376 2015; (p. 61)

— Review of Pieces of Sky Trinity Doyle , 2015 single work novel ; The Pause John Larkin , 2015 single work novel ; Frankie & Joely Nova Weetman , 2015 single work novel ; Talk Under Water Kathryn Lomer , 2015 single work novel
1 Ruth Starke Reviews 'Standing on the Shoulders of Giants' by Mark Rafidi Ruth Starke , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 370 2015;

— Review of Standing on the Shoulders of Giants : Insights from Great Australian Picture Book Authors and Illustrators. Mark Rafidi , 2014 single work essay
1 5 y separately published work icon My Gallipoli Ruth Starke , Adelaide : Working Title Press , 2015 8033999 2015 single work novel young adult war literature

'From the shores of Anzac Cove to the heights of Chunuk Bair, from Cape Helles to Gurkha Bluff, the Gallipoli Peninsula was the place where thousands of men from sixteen nations fought, suffered, endured or died during the eight months of occupation in 1915. For each of them, their families and their nurses, Gallipoli meant something different. Their voices emerge from the landscape and across the decades with stories of courage, valour, despair and loss. Winner of the 2015 NSW Premier's Young People's History Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Asher Literary Award and the 2016 Children's Book Council of Australia Crichton Award A 2016 Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book' (Publication summary 2016 edition)

1 Crossing Over Ruth Starke , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 366 2014; (p. 54)

— Review of South of Darkness John Marsden , 2014 single work novel
1 Review of The Eye of the Sheep by Sophie Laguna Ruth Starke , 2014 single work
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 7 no. 1 2014;

— Review of The Eye of the Sheep Sofie Laguna , 2014 single work novel
1 Horses for Courses Ruth Starke , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 364 2014; (p. 44)

— Review of Loyal Creatures Morris Gleitzman , 2014 single work children's fiction ; Figgy in the World Tamsin Janu , 2014 single work children's fiction
1 Sequelitis Ruth Starke , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 359 2014;

— Review of The 39-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths , 2013 single work children's fiction ; Stay Well Soon Penny Tangey , 2013 single work novel ; The Year My Life Broke John Marsden , 2013 single work children's fiction ; Jodie : This is the Book of You Randa Abdel-Fattah , 2013 single work children's fiction
1 In Conversation with Hanna Kent Ruth Starke , 2014 single work interview
— Appears in: Writers in Conversation , February vol. 1 no. 1 2014;

'Hannah Kent has enjoyed enormous international success with her first novel, Burial Rites, a reimagining of the life and death of Agnes Magnusdottir, the last woman to be executed in Iceland for murder. Published in Australia in May 2013, the book has also been published in the UK and in the USA, and in over twenty other countries. Jennifer Lawrence will play Agnes in the forthcoming movie to be directed by Gary Ross, the director of The Hunger Games.

Hannah was born in Adelaide in 1985 and grew up in the Adelaide Hills where her family still lives. Hannah completed her BCW (Hons) in 2008 at Flinders University, where she is currently completing her PhD. Burial Rites is the creative component of that doctoral thesis and Ruth Starke, who interviews Hannah below, is her principal supervisor. ' (Publication abstract)

1 Universal Truths Ruth Starke , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 350 2013;

— Review of Cat and Fiddle Lesley Jorgensen , 2011 single work novel
1 [Untitled] Ruth Starke , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 5 no. 2 2013;

— Review of Love and Hunger Charlotte Wood , 2012 single work prose
1 [Essay] : The Gathering Ruth Starke , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Reading Australia 2013-;

'My postgraduate student frowned. ‘The Gathering? Isn’t that the one where someone sets a dog on fire?’ Spoiler alert: indeed it is. It is the book’s most memorable scene; it is certainly the most horrific. My postgrad had read Isobelle Carmody’s 1993 novel in high school and that was the first memory of it which surfaced. The scene shocked readers and alienated many: ‘I re-read the novel recently but I skipped that chapter’ wrote one online reviewer.' (Introduction)

1 13 y separately published work icon An Anzac Tale Ruth Starke , Greg Holfeld (illustrator), Adelaide : Working Title Press , 2012 Z1908757 2012 single work graphic novel children's 'When Australia pledges its support to Great Britain at the outbreak of World War I, mates Roy Martin and Wally Cardwell are among the first to enlist.

But what the friends first thought would be an adventure soon turns to disaster. The day after the landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, more than 2000 of their fellow Anzacs are dead. As the campaign drags on, life for Wally and Roy and their new friend, Tom, becomes a battle of endurance against a plucky enemy, a hostile landscape, flies, fleas, cold and disease.

In this graphic novel, Ruth Starke and Greg Holfeld have combined to create an extraordinary and original work for upper primary students on the subject of Gallipoli and the Anzac campaign.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Books of the Year : Children and Young Adults Bec Kavanagh , Stephanie Owen Reeder , Pam Macintyre , Joy Lawn , Ruth Starke , Mike Shuttleworth , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2012 - January 2013 no. 347 2012; (p. 38)
Australian writers and reviewers each nominate their best chidren's and young adult books of 2012. Some of the books listed are by Australian writers.
1 [Review] Rocks in the Belly Ruth Starke , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 20 no. 2 2012; (p. 32)

— Review of Rocks in the Belly Jon Bauer , 2010 single work novel
1 Long Shadows Ruth Starke , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 342 2012; (p. 62-63)

— Review of The Children of the King Sonya Hartnett , 2012 single work children's fiction ; The Tunnels of Tarcoola Jennifer Walsh , 2012 single work children's fiction ; Red Libby Gleeson , 2012 single work children's fiction ; Mystery at Riddle Gully Jen Banyard , 2012 single work children's fiction
1 Untitled Ruth Starke , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 4 no. 2 2012;

— Review of The Idea of Home Geraldine Brooks , 2011 selected work essay
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