Michael Parker is currently Headmaster at Newington College where he was also once Head of English. His most recent work is Talk With Your Kids About Things That Matter. He has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for young adult fiction for Doppelganer (Penguin) . With Fiona Morrison he also wrote Masters in Pieces: The English Canon for the Twenty First Century for Cambridge University Press and is writing a forthcoming book about on critical thinking.