Salt River Times

A sequences of short stories with their genesis in Mayne's work at an Australian school. As usual. the style is likely to defeat most kids but secondary teachers might glean ideas from it and there are one or two pieces which, properly presented, could be useful as examples of less common narrative techniques. Minority stuff like this seems an odd choice for Puffins, though: I can't really fathom the current direction of their list. Perhaps it's for the export market.