Recent content by maloney

My posting here was a silly idea. I don't know what overcame me. When I see expressions like 'subvert the genre' and 'contextual values', then find "you" spelled as "u", I am reminded to get back to the real world of books and writing and linger no longer in the secondary education syllabus. My...

Happy to make suggestions. My criticism of the set texts was directed to students lest any be put off crime fiction by the lousy examples. Directing my views to the Board would be a waste of time as their attitude is clearly evident in their choices. And no, I am not angling to have any of my...

How does it help 'challenge the notion of genre' to require students to read such miserable examples of it? Would it not be educationally more worthwhile to direct students to better examples of crime fiction than the idiosyncratic examples chosen, if only to set up some sort of benchmark? The...

I'm not a student - I'm an author of crime fiction. Six successful novels, one of which was a text for the Victorian equivalent of the HSC about 10 years ago. The NSW set texts for the crime writing component of English are a disgrace. With one exception, their choice appears to be have been...