Outside+Resources

http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/evergreen-island/ Link to an Australian documentary about the Bougainville blockade. The film is hard to come by, but there are sample clips here, and even the text and still pics are illuminating.

__Interviews__
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/perspective/articles/89 The following link connects to an interview with the author of //Mister Pip//, Lloyd Jones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAzelR0jdpc This is an audio interview with the author. Of particular interest is his explanation for the focus on Great Expectations as a source.

Critical Lens
[|A Room of One's Own] It may be interesting to have students read Virginia Woolf's essay and react to the fact that Lloyd Jones is a man with a female protagonist.

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