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Christian Séruzier Christian Séruzier i(A57103 works by)
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2 14 y separately published work icon Butterfly Song Terri Janke , Camberwell : Penguin , 2005 Z1176571 2005 single work novel

Tarena Shaw has just finished her Law degree but isn't sure if she wants to be a lawyer after all. What place does a black lawyer have in a white system? Does everyone in Sydney feel like a turtle without a shell? Drawn to Thursday Island, the home of her grandparents, Tarena is persuaded by her family to take on her first case. Part of the evidence is a man with a guitar and a very special song... Butterfly Song moves from the pearling days in the Torres Strait to the ebb and flow of big city life, with a warm and funny modern heroine whose story reaches across cultures.

Source: Author's website.
4 57 y separately published work icon Highways to a War Christopher Koch , New York (City) : Viking , 1995 Z456830 1995 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears inside Cambodia, he becomes a mythic figure in the minds of his friends. The search for him which is at the heart of this novel explores the personal highways that led him to war, and to his ultimate fate.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
3 1 y separately published work icon Come Back Gizmo Paul Jennings , Ringwood : Puffin , 1996 Z1011432 1996 single work children's fiction children's humour 'The third story in the successful Gizmo series, involving a mean-spirited hoodlum who - via a toilet seat getting stuck on his head - discovers compassion and becomes a hero.' (Publication summary)
2 2 y separately published work icon Sink the Gizmo Paul Jennings , Ringwood : Puffin , 1997 Z930699 1997 single work children's fiction children's humour
2 2 y separately published work icon The Gizmo Again Paul Jennings , Ringwood : Puffin , 1995 Z920255 1995 single work children's fiction children's humour
3 2 y separately published work icon The Gizmo Paul Jennings , Ringwood : Puffin , 1994 Z824401 1994 single work children's fiction children's humour (taught in 1 units)
3 17 y separately published work icon Raki : A Novel B. Wongar , Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1994 Z857293 1994 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

Raki (which means rope) is set in Australia and Bosnia and deals with issues of black and white relations, ethnic conflict and multi-culturalism. Gara is an Aboriginal youth who is adopted by a Yugoslav family and taken bak to Bosnia. Caught up in the conflict there, he returns to Australia, only to end up in jail, where he hangs himself. (Source: Koori Mail Ed. 85 21 Sept. 1994)
3 43 y separately published work icon Master of the Ghost Dreaming Mudrooroo , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z232555 1991 single work novel

'... Jangamuttuk is an ageing Aborigine shaman whose people have been relocated to an island off the Australian coast under the control of a former bricklayer turned missionary. Jangamuttuk helps them come to terms with the invaders' presence and, at the same time, offers them a restorative vision of community by entering into "the dreaming," a magical time every bit as real as conventional reality. ...' (Source: Amazon website)
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