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Simon Robb Simon Robb i(A79282 works by)
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1 1 y separately published work icon Hope : The Everyday and Imaginary Life of Young People on the Margins Simon Robb (editor), Patrick O'Leary (editor), Alison MacKinnon (editor), Peter Bishop (editor), Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 2010 Z1750339 2010 anthology autobiography young adult
1 How to Write History about Australia That is Ugly Simon Robb , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May no. 46 2009;
— Review of The Summer Exercises Ross Gibson , 2009 single work novel
1 Excerpt from Jane Fonda's Temple of Literature Simon Robb , 2007 single work prose
— Appears in: Jacket , October no. 33 2007;
1 4 y separately published work icon The Hulk Simon Robb , South Australia : Post Taste Media and Publishing , 2003 Z1080092 2003 single work novel historical fiction

'Australian history, post European settlement, would be nothing without crime. But in one part of the nation they like to keep their crimes secret. South Australia was founded as a nineteenth century middle-class utopia, free of the convict contagion which tainted other Australian colonies. But between 1880 and 1891 this 'enlightened' society implemented a barbaric penal solution - incarcerating 'delinquent' boys aged 6 to 16 on a prison ship moored off the South Australian coast.

'The Hulk is the story of those boys living on the hulk Fitzjames, whose voices have been hidden from history. Simon Robb delves back into the historical sources and uses contemporary interviews to make the boys speak again, uncovering the terrible stories of a truly Australian secret history.'   (Publication summary)
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