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  • Roads to Writing 4. Mystery Fiction

    This is an essay, a personal view, on the craft of writing mystery fiction, or whodunits. It looks at finding plot ideas, creating the detective character and suspects. The essay goes on to explore the tricky business of laying clues within a story, together with some cunning tricks to disguise them. ... Read more

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  • Brisbane Stories

    The practice of 'initiation', hazing or bullying is frequently in the news. It is not an experience reserved for working class victims as reports of incidents in university halls of residence will show. The so-called 'tradition' pervades the highest levels of business, the medical profession and even government.However the stories in this hard hitting Australian collection are more down-to-earth, ... Read more

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  • Stars

    This is a story about a small crime in a primary school. It's hardly worth bothering about, but it worries Charlie Thomson. After all, Charlie's the one who got the blame. So he sets out to do some detective work and find the real culprit, then clear his name.The tale has all the elements of a proper detective yarn, a whodunit. It has a crime and suspects with motives, means and opportunities. It ... Read more

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  • Mandragora

    Mandragora is the story of four old curses that destroyed a 19th century sailing ship, the Dunarling, and most of her passengers and crew. A hundred years later four teenagers uncover the objects that carried the curses — and the evil starts again, but this time in the small coastal town that bears the name of the doomed ship. Adam Hardy, with help from Catriona Chisholm, begins to unravel details ... Read more

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  • Mad Arm of the Y

    The mad arm of the Y was Harry's idea.One arm was the boring goody-goody road, the other was exciting and dead iffy.'Which one for you, Brian?' he said.And that's when all the trouble began.Here is a story that will take hold of you and not let you go. ... Read more

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  • Two Kinds of Knowledge

    The English writer, Samuel Johnson once declared: 'Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where to find information on it.'This resource for teachers contains forty challenges which invite students to name things within a given category. An example is to collect the names of towns or cities with a river running through them. Students first tackle this challenge without ... Read more

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  • Roads To Writing 2. Finding Story Ideas

    Roads To Writing 1. Making Your Characters Speak, #1

    Series Book 1 - Roads To Writing 1. Making Your Characters Speak
    In the second Roads To Writing, we explore the important business of getting ideas for our stories. As David McRobbie, points out you need an idea to start your story and a whole succession of them to keep it going. The first part talks about the beginning of ideas and where they come from. The second part is a workshop on how to find ideas and what to do with them.The third part deals with the ... Read more

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  • Vinnie's War

    Just then came: crump, CRUMP, CRUMP! Three bombs in quick succession, coming frighteningly close. With each explosion, the ground shook. Dust and chips fell from the ceiling. Everyone in the shelter gasped at the same time. Vinnie held his breath, waiting for the fourth bomb, but it didn't come.When Vinnie is sent away from the bombs in London, he has no idea what awaits him. All he has left of ... Read more

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  • To Brave the Seas

    We had trained for emergencies. Every man knew how to launch a lifeboat. There were life jackets to save us, but no one said, Oh, and this is what an exploding torpedo does, and here's what happens when the ship sinks under you. And the lights will be out, so you'll be in the dark.It is 1940, and war rages. With nothing to keep him at home, fifteen-year-old Adam Chisholm joins Britain's Merchant ... Read more

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  • In Prior's Pocket

    Teenager Bill Fields and his father move into a new but old house, which is one of four identical dwellings in Prior's Pocket. For Bill, the place takes some getting used to; it's old and spooky, especially in the daytime when he comes home to an empty house.One day, he finds the place has an attic and discovers up there a model house. Bill sets about restoring the model, cleaning and ... Read more

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  • Roads to Writing 1. Making Your Characters Speak

    David McRobbie is an Australian writer for children and young adults who has written and published more than forty books, ten radio plays and three television series, all of which employ dialogue. He's been at the writing game for fifty-six years and now wants to put some of his techniques on record. Roads To Writing, the first e-book in a proposed series, looks at how to lay out dialogue when it ... Read more

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  • Ten Things You Didn't Know About Ghosts

    It is 1937 and the London to Glasgow train crashes one wintry Scottish night. Shortly after that tragic event two ghosts appear — a girl and boy who had been living passengers on the train.The ghosts somehow find their way into a nearby orphanage where only 12-year-old Beatrice McMullin can see them — and then begins a tricky partnership. The ghosts initially have trouble communicating with ... Read more

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