'John Guare is one of America''s darkest post-war playwrights. The House of Blue Leaves ''is about the clash between American dreams and the American way of death'' (Village Voice); The...
Drawing on his experiences in the First World War, Charles Yale Harrison tells a stark and poignant story of a young man sent to fight on the Western Front. It...
The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and...
One of Brett Whiteley's most coveted paintings comes on to the market and sharp young art dealer Simone has to sell the work for two million dollars. A play by...
This is Paul Zindel’s autobiography of his teenage years. He tells of comic and painful experiences of adolescence: his move to Staten Island, his turbulent relationship with his eccentric mother,...
Shelley is embarrassed when her mother starts working at the ‘retard farm’. Why can't she get a decent job? At the pool, Ben is afraid of the water, but persists...
Retelling by Adam McKeon & illustrated by Lynne Cannoy
Witches with magical omens. Murder most foul. The quest for power at all costs. Bloody and spectacular battles. This modern retelling of Macbeth, enhanced with superbly evocative full-colour art throughout,...
Among the greatest and best known of Ibsen's works, these four plays brilliantly exemplify his landmark contributions to the theater: his realistic dialogue, probing of social problems, and depiction of...
After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one...
When Ellie and her friends go camping, they have no idea they're leaving their old lives behind forever. Despite a less-than-tragic food shortage and a secret crush or two, everything...
Description Volume One: Poems Devoted exclusively to all poetic works, translated by Tagore and a few poems he wrote in english. Volume Two: Plays; Stories; Essays Contains nine plays and...
The gold standard anthology for anyone who wants to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Offering 191 pieces by 157 authors, The Norton Anthology of Theory and...
he night the first wild child was captured, I was woken from my sleep by the sound of car doors slamming. I opened my eyes; lights were flashing across the...
Mortal Engines launched Philip Reeve's brilliantly imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future. The first installment introduces young apprentice...
In Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, a distinguished scholar turns away from learning and embraces necromancy to satisfy his yearning for knowledge, power and influence. Faustus trades his soul to Lucifer for...
The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a...
To outsiders, Maroubra seemed like another world. It was Sydney's toughest beach, ruled by a tribe of tattooed surfers named the 'Bra Boys', already notorious for mixing mateship with mayhem....
Based on the novel by Ian McEwan, 'Atonement' opens in England in 1935, on the hottest day of the year. In the looming shadow of World War II, Briony Tallis...
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage.A strange collection of very curious photographs.It all waits to be discovered inMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and...
Bright Swallow, a young girl labelled as of 'bad origins' in Mao's Cultural Revolution, becomes motherless at fifteen in 1972. Determined to live a full life like her mother had...