Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus.
572 Pages. Extended Description
Part-biography, part-history, Shakespeare's Wife is fascinating in its reconstruction of Ann's life, and the daily lives of Elizabethan women. It offers an illuminating portrait of their working routines, the rituals of their courtship and the minutiae of married life.
406 Pages. Extended Description
Aged six, Robert Drewe moved with his family from Melbourne to Perth, the world's most isolated city - and proud of it.
Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew. Extended Description
Xinran's extraordinary second book takes the reader right to the hidden heart of one of the world's most mysterious and inaccessible countries. Paperback 204 pages Extended Description
To celebrate the canonisation of Blessed Mary MacKillop on October 17, there is a new edition of the award-winning The Black Dress.
The Black Dress is the incredible story of Mary MacKillop – an unconventional young woman born into a time and a religion bound by convention.
What Mary did with her life would change the course of Australia’s history.
In 1959 David Hill's mother – a poor single parent living in England – reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. .....Paperback Extended Description
Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who Hitler counted among his friends; she was also the niece of Anton Chekhov. Extended Description
In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream – Asian style. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives headfirst into schooling, romance and the getting of wisdom. Extended Description
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