Fiction. Cherry Kaufman had her ideals--once. But nothing prepared her for the "challenges" of teaching at primary school, not to mention what her mates get up to after school hours.... A humorous and irreverent expose of the education system, in the mode of the BBC series "Teachers."

Author City: Brisbane AUS

David Reiter is an award-winning poet and writer of fiction, His fourth book, HEMINGWAY IN SPAIN, was shortlisted for the 1998 Adelaide Festival Awards. His previous fiction includes Triangles, which was shortlisted for the 2000 Steele Rudd Award, Sharpened Knife, a multimedia murder mystery, and his cafe society satire Liars and Lovers. His chapter book series for kids is entitled Project Earthmend, with The Greenhouse Effect published by Lothian Books (Hachette-Livre) in 2004 and Global Cooling (IP Kidz, 2008). Real Guns, a children's picture book, was illustrated by Irish artist Patrick Murphy, and a multimedia CD anthology. David has been writer-in-residence at a number of places, most recently Bundanon (the Arthur Boyd property), and in Auckland, New Zealand, at the Michael King Centre during February-March 2008, where this novel was completed.