Against the backdrop of Darwin -- that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia -- a young and newly arrived southerner encounters...
Amir is a young Afghani from a well-to-do Kabul family; his best friend Hassan is the son of a family servant. Together the two boys form a bond of friendship...
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to...
A passionate rural drama enacted at the turn of the eighteenth century. Carpenter Adam Bede, a man of deep integrity, hopes to marry the young butter-maker Hetty Sorrel, niece of...
This shortened version is an ideal way to get students to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's "rom-com". Two modern narrators guide students and clarify events. Their dialogue (clearly marked in the...
BOORI MONTY PRYOR: AUSTRALIA'S CHILDREN'S LAUREATE 2012-13 'I'm heading out on m'own, down the highway to the big city. Going south. I lost my taste for knowing the old...
The extraordinarily moving story of a young girl who steps on a land mine in Mozambique, and her indomitable will to survive.'It was the most dangerous thing she could have...
A sexually charged comedy by the award-winning playwright, about the life of debauched Restoration poet the Earl of Rochester, and his relationship with actress Elizabeth Barry. The Libertine tells the...
Two plays from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, developed and conceived in tandem, drawing on the raw experience of the author's own family relationships. Desire Under the...
The story of a remarkable boy called Yann Margoza; Tetu the dwarf, his friend and mentor; Sido, unloved daughter of a foolish Marquis; and Count Kalliovski, Grand Master of a...
Written in collaboration with critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist Patty McCormick, this is Malala's story, written for her peers. Meet the girl behind the icon - a girl who...
For years journalists have been eyewitnesses to athletes - from the elite to downtrodden - chasing, achieving or falling short of their dreams. They have observed, chronicled and attempted to...
In the time of the Han Dynasty in ancient China, the last remaining dragon is in danger of being killed by the cruel Emperor. A nameless orphan with no past...
When Darcy Abbott is sent to live with her surly grandmother and silent great-grandmother for three months, she discovers a mystery regarding the death of her great-grandfather during World War...
The Bell family's ancestors were showered with honours, gifts and grants of land. In exchange, they have bestowed a Gift, once every 25 years, on the town. The Gifts have...
A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical novel from one of the world's greatest living writers. A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John...
Will is in trouble, and everyone's worried, they reckon it's because of what happened six months ago, but he doesn't know what they're on about. The very latest incident (mooning...
ADS R US is set in a modern industrialised city in the near future, where advertising is a constant stream of inescapable information, and corporations sponsor everything from music to...
Study notes and a workshop approach to Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 John Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came In from the Cold Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot Sylvia Plath’s Ariel...
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the words of his translator, Ron Jenkins: "The Nobel committee's decision to honor Fo as a master of literature is a historic...