VCE English 2009
Of Love and Shadows
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Swan )
Set in a country of arbitrary arrests, sudden disappearances and summary executions, this magical novel tells of the passionate affair of two people prepared to risk everything for the sake of justice and truth: Irene Be... More »
Birds And Other Plays: Knights Peace Birds Assembly Women
$14.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Oh wings are splendid things, make no mistake:
they really help you rise in the world.'
These plays, written over forty years, contain Aristophanes' trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal agility. In The Birds, two f... More »
Man for All Seasons
$22.95 (Paperback book / Methuen )
A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout t... More »
Caucasian Chalk Circle
$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The play is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed by tw... More »
Sometimes Gladness
$32.95 (Paperback book / Pearson Education )
The sixth edition of Sometimes Gladness includes twenty-five new poems written between 1997 and 2005. Bruce Dawe is one of Australia’s most acclaimed poets and the recipient of numerous awards. More »
Hard Times
$7.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young adult minds. As a con... More »
Beverley Farmer Collected Stories
$24.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )
Beverley Farmer's reputation as a deeply sensitive and lyrical writer was established with her short stories.
Her two collections Milk and Home Time are included here with five uncollected stories and others which were p... More »
Line: A Story of the Burma Railway
$22.95 (Paperback book / One Day Hill )
This is a story on two levels; it is a father's account through four distinct pieces of writing to explain his experience on the Burma railway; at another level it is the story a son's attempt to understand what that sto... More »
The Poetry of Robert Frost
$35.00$32.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
This comprehensive and authoritative edition of Robert Frost's poetry brings together the full contents of all eleven of Frost's books of verse - from A Boy's Will to In the Clearing. This handsome volume, comprising mor... More »
Romulus. My Father
$24.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overt... More »
The Secret River
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he... More »
Generals Die In Bed
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
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 is an unimaginably harrowing journey, especially for one not... More »
The Kite Runner
$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him; for he ... More »
Don't Start Me Talking: Lyrics 1984 to 2004
$23.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
There is something unique and powerful about the way Kelly mixes
up everyday detail with the big issues of life, death, love and
struggle-not a trace of pretence or fakery in there.' - Neil
Finn
'At its best, Paul Kelly'... More »
Into Thin Air
$24.99 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )
This is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ende... More »
Enduring Love
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
This story begins on a windy spring day in the Chilterns when the calm, organized life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in tragedy, but for his brief meeti... More »
Fly Away Peter
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization r... More »
Bombshells
$21.95 (Paperback book / Currency )
Six monologues made famous by the diva Caroline O'Connor, exposing six women balancing their inner and outer lives with humour and often desperate cunning. They range in age from a feisty teenager to a 64-year-old widow ... More »
In the Lake of the Woods
$24.99 (Paperback book / Flamingo )
This remarkable new novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried combines the power of the finest Vietnam fiction with the tension of a many-layered mystery. It be... More »
Nineteen Eighty Four
$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which ... More »
Great Short Works
$27.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
The classic poems and spinetingling stories of a Gothic American master collected in one volume. Of all the American masters Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation as a master of the maca... More »
Inheritance
$21.95 (Paperback book / Currency )
The Myrtle twins, Dibs Hamilton and Girlie Delaney, are turning 80. As the family gathers to celebrate, speculation grows as to who will be the one to inherit the family property, Allandale, when the ageing Farley Hamilt... More »
The Catcher in the Rye
$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. T... More »
Richard III
$8.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The bitter, deformed brother of the King is secretly plotting to seize the throne of England. Charming and duplicitous, powerfully eloquent and viciously cruel, he is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve his goal and... More »
Selected Poems
$22.99 (Paperback book / Angus & Robertson )
One of Australia’s finest poets, Kenneth Slessor would be outstanding in any company. His brilliance of technique gives an impression of unconscious mastery in poems that are always arresting in conception and illuminati... More »
Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Tennessee Williams's sensuous, atmospheric plays transformed the American stage with their passion, exoticism and vibrant characters who rage against their personal demons and the modern world. In A Streetcar Named Desir... More »
Sky Burial
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Xinran's extraordinary second book takes the reader right to the hidden heart of one of the world's most mysterious and inaccessible countries. In March 1958, a Chinese woman learns that her husband, an idealistic army d... More »
Citizen Kane
$24.95 (Digital video disc / Warner Bros Home Vid )
In May of 1941, RKO Radio Pictures released a controversial film by a 25-year-old, first-time director. That premiere of Orson Welles Citizen Kane was to have a profound and lasting effect on the art of motion pictures. ... More »
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
$29.95$19.95 (Digital video disc / Village Roadshow Ent )
Rating:M15+
From acclaimed writer Charlie Kaufman and visionary director Michel
Gondry comes Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. An
all-star ensemble cast shines in this comical and poignant look at
breakups, breakdo... More »
Look Both Ways
$34.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )
Meryl imagines disaster coming from every direction?train crashes, man-eating sharks, baby-eating killer whales...and then there's Nick. An innovative mix of animation and live action, set over a scorchingly hot weekend,... More »
