In 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu about life in the Swat Valley as the Taliban gained control, at times banning girls from attending school. When...
Heinemann Poetry 1 and 2 are collections specially selected for Australian classrooms. Exhilarating, thoughtful, provocative and lyrical, the poems in Heinemann Poetry 1 and 2 are certain to create discussion...
The Globe Education Shakespeare series presents a bold new approach to exploring Shakespeare plays with junior to middle year students. Activities and unique resources from Shakespeare's Globe enable students to...
The Language Toolkit workbook series provides junior and middle secondary school students with the skills to explore the receptive and productive communication modes, enabling them to write, read, listen and...
Media Reloaded is an invaluable resource for the development of visual literacy skills in the English classroom. It has been developed by experienced media educators with a passion for understanding...
The Language Toolkit workbook series provides junior and middle secondary school students with the skills to explore the receptive and productive communication modes, enabling them to write, read, listen and...
Sydney has become the prime destination for the world's athletes as the 2000 Olympic Games approach. Teenage Stace Lukovic has been identified as a potential Australian swimming medalist. With some...
Carl Matt hasn't got much. There's just his younger brother Harley and the old red barge to Wiseman's Cove. And nothing's going to take those away from him.He's an awkward,...
The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd,...
What can the canon do for you? Masters in Pieces introduces students to the ideas and people surrounding a selection of the most significant English literature of the past thousand...
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...
Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the...
"An Inspector Calls", first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a...
The slide opened and I heard a gentle, kind voice: "What is your confession, my child?" I was stuffed. The Priest would declare me a heretic; my parents would call...
Did Hitler′s daughter, Heidi, really exist? - What if she did?It began on a rainy morning, as part of a game played by Mark and his friends. It was a...
A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein,...
Rediscover Puffin Classics - everyone's favourite stories The epic journey of Odysseus, the hero of Ancient Greece... After ten years of war, Odysseus turns his back on Troy and sets...
Stone Cold is an exciting and disturbing thriller by Robert Swindells. A tense, exciting thriller combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial...
This re-telling of Anglo-Saxon legend recounts Beowulf's terrifying quests against Grendel the man-wolf and against the hideous sea-hag, and his fight to the death with the monstrous fire-drake. Condition: Were...
Alone and fending for themselves in a Poland devastated by World War Two, Jan and his three homeless friends cling to the silver sword as a symbol of hope. As...
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is...
William Shakespeare, Edited by Shane Barnes & Aidan Coleman
Even the most resolutely disengaged students can finally ‘discover’ and thrill to the rhythms and passions of Shakespeare’s plays! Award-winning teachers and Shakespearean scholars have extensively trialled their approach to...
'I wake with a start. The doorknob turns. It's him. The Hairyman.' There's a bad spirit in our house. He's as ugly as ugly gets and he stinks. You touch...
The men were huddled in lifeboats. Some prayed that their legs would work. Some smiled to show they weren't scared. They peered into the darkness ahead and saw nothing. Then,...