VCE English 2009
Birds And Other Plays: Knights Peace Birds Assembly Women
$9.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Home
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
A story of homecoming, this absorbing novel opens with city bred young lawyer Candice as she sets out on her first visit to her ancestral homeland. She arrives at "the place where the rivers meet", the long abandoned cam... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Caucasian Chalk Circle
$24.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Sometimes Gladness
$34.95 – 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. Buy or find out more →
Hard Times
$9.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Shark Net
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city – and proud of it. This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and friendliness.
Then a man h... Buy or find out 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 we... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
The Poetry of Robert Frost
$12.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Romulus. My Father
$25.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Maestro
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
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 the 'maestro', a Viennese refu... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out 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 ... Buy or find out 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'... Buy or find out more →
Into Thin Air
$19.99 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Enduring Love
$19.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Island
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Alistair MacLeod has been writing stories set mainly in his native land of Cape Breton, Novia Scotia, since the seventies. Both then, and again in the eighties, he published collections, but it wasn't until his novel No ... Buy or find out more →
Fly Away Peter
$19.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
The Crucible
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 – 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' – and the McCarthyism which gripped Americ... Buy or find out 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 ... Buy or find out more →
In the Lake of the Woods
$19.99 – 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... Buy or find out 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 ... Buy or find out more →
Great Short Works
$20.95 – 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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Richard III
$9.95 – 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... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Sky Burial
$19.95 – 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... Buy or find out 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. ... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
Jindabyne
$12.95 – Digital video disc /
Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to ... Buy or find out more →
Look Both Ways
$19.95 – 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,... Buy or find out more →
Omagh
$14.95 – Digital video disc / Universal Pict Vid
Peter Travis’s vibrant and emotionally rich drama examines the tragic events and appalling aftermath caused by the bomb that devastated the Northern Ireland town of Omagh in August of 1998. Suspenseful, moving and immedi... Buy or find out more →