Waltzing the Wilarra by David Milroy
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Current Theatre Ser.
It's 1940s post-war Perth. Against a backdrop of curfews, and the fear of arrest for consorting, White and Black manage to form their own club. Forty years on, as the club faces demolition, Charlie, Elsa and Fay meet once again to stage a musical reunion and protest in an attempt to save their old stomp ...Show more
T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected ...Show more
Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. WILDE, GLAMOROUS AND NOTORIUS, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the ha ...Show more
Silent Disco by Lachlan Philpott
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Tamara and Jasyn are in love. Tamara is fourteen. Jasyn lives with Aunty and his brother Dane is in prison for dealing. Jasyn wants to take Tamara to the formal, but he hasn't got the cash. In a world of absent mothers and missing fathers, Mrs Petchell battles to keep another year of students out of the ...Show more
The Club by David Williamson
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Plays Ser.
Williamson's famous play about the uses and abuses of managerial power, which in 1976 foreshadowed the great changes that Australian football has since endured, proves even more prescient since the rise and fall of Super League. This is a play set behind the scenes, a head-on tackle of brawn versus bure ...Show more
The Essence of the Thing: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize In The Essence of the Thing, Madeleine St John takes us deep into the territory of the human heart. Nicola should never have stepped out to buy that pack of cigarettes, because the man she discovers in her living room on her return is not the Jonathan she has been shar ...Show more
Felicity by Mary Oliver
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Category: Poetry and Drama
'And just like that, like a simpleneighbourhood event, a miracle istaking place.''If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,' Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver's love poems. Here, great happiness abounds ...Show more
Stories in the Dark by Debra Oswald
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Currency Teenage Ser.
A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears. Into his life steps Anna older, street smart and scornful of his crying.
Jasper Jones: Based on the novel by Craig Silvey by Craig Silvey
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure o ...Show more
The Call of the Wild: Popular Penguins by Jack London
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck mus ...Show more
Henry V: Black Penguin Classics by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry and Drama
Among the most well-loved of William Shakespeare's history plays, Henry V is the gripping conclusion to the story of young 'Prince Hal' begun in Henry IV, edited by A R Humphreys with an introduction by Ann Kaegi. 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The Pelican Shakespeare
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more