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ABOUT AKIRA VOLUME 1 Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of unknown origin that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise...
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION; NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER; WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION. A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a...
Australians mostly live in cities, yet many of our favourite movie characters are working men from the bush. We revere our sporting heroes, yet we prize their larrikin irreverence. Each...
Henni lives in Melbourne, Leo lives in Berlin. Different countries, different lives, so far apart; but sometimes the person furthest away is just the one you need. A postcard from...
This captivating book for Year 9 covers all content descriptions, in all three strands of the Australian Curriculum. Each of the twelve chapters is cleverly structured to simultaneously identify and...
William Shakespeare, Adapted by Richard Appignanesi, Illustrated by Emma Vieceli
In Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and Benedick trade insults and fall in love in the sunny Italian court of the Duke'but the Duke's brother has devious plans to ruin...
Peter Skrzynecki is a poet and fiction writer of Polish-Ukrainian descent. His poems are largely poems of reflection and observation, but in the course of their 'meditations' on experience they...
Told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959, The Poisonwood Bible is...
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions...
Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has...
Undoubtedly one of Australia's favourite plays, the One Day of the Year explores the universal theme of father-son conflict against the background of the beery haze and the heady, nostalgic...
Myths and Legends One and Two explore the world of myth and legend, and show that stories from Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa and America often have similar themes, plots...
Jung-ling's family considers her bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her. They discriminate against her and make her feel unwanted yet she yearns and continuously strives for...
A modern classic on exploring and understanding the most uncharted place on our planet. A modern classic on exploring and understanding the Antarctic, the most uncharted place on our planet....
Geoff Robertson was born in Australia, bu came to London in 1970. He made his name as the fearless defender of Oz magazine at the celebrated trial and went on...
A collection of short stories from some of Australia's best writers including Carole Wilkinson, Andy Griffths, Michael Panckridge, Michael Gerard Bauer, Karen Tayleur, Tessa Duder, Scot Gardner, Alicia Sometimes, Michael...
Gary has failed in everything he has attempted. But when he inherits a block of land, he gets an urge to build a nest with Sue-Ann, his angry and pregnant...
Told in a series of vibrant vignettes, The House on Mango Street is the story of Esperenza Cordera, a young girl growing in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. For Esperanza, Mango Street...
Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962.WINNIE: [ . . .] Well anyway - this man Shower -...
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...
'In Life Studies the pathos of the local colour of the past - of the lives and deaths of his father and mother and grandfather and uncle, crammed full of their own...