Richard III is perhaps the most memorable of Shakespeare's history plays. It charts the rise and fall of a Macchiavellian villain who, by scheming and by infanticide claws his way to the throne of England
A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's stately country home. One of the guests is Gerard Arbuthnot, an earnest, upright young man whose prospects are limited, so he is overjoyed when the suave Lord Illingworth offers him employment as his secreatry. His mother, however, implores him to refuse this brilliant entree into sophistcated society. Should she reveal the shameful secret …
Judith Wright's Collected Poems 1942-1970 containing seven previously published books of verse and additional uncollected poems, demonstrates the weight and substance of the poetic achievement of one of Australia's most highly respected and valuedpoets. Whether she is read for her rich and comprehensive evocation of the Australian eart, of her meditations on the great traditional themes of love…
Joe planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover's return after 6 weeks in the States. The perfect day turns to nightmare however, when they are involved in freak ballooning accident in which a boy is saved but a man is killed. In itself, the accident would change the couple and the survivors' lives, filling them with an uneasy combination of shame, hap…
This powerful, passionate and highly acclaimed novel tells, through the eyes of a child, the moving story of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi is a sheltered and beloved 5 year old when Pearl Harbor changes her life. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, presecuted and despised in their own land. Surrounded by hardshi…
Michael Rogan was an intelligence officer behind enemy lines in World War II Europe. But he made the mistake of falling in love, which gave him something to lose. Or to be taken from him. Captured by the Nazis, Michael was not treated as a prisoner of war. He was treated as an experiment. A piece of meat. A subject upon which his captors commited atrocity after atrocity. But not before they …