Product Description: Gerry, 60, hopes to meet his mother for the first time. With his daughter, he embarks on an extraordinary journey across the world, from Australia to Liverpool, in a precarious bid to bring his family together. Between 1945 and 1968, over 3000 British children were told they were orphans and sent to Australia under the "White Australia" program...read more

Product Description: Introduced by Marius von Mayenburg, this volume presents four of Benedict Andrews' original plays: Like a Sun, Every Breath, Dream Girl, and a short, characterless ‘history’ play, Geronimo. Andrews is a multi-award-winning director known for his radical versions of masterpieces by Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov and Tennessee Williams, as well as his stagings of cutting-edge contemporary writers...read more

Product Description: "I feel like a kind of Belgium, y’ know. Always invaded. They’ve set up their trenches and wires and they take it in turns to rush over the top and try and put a flag in me. I’m getting loved to exhaustion." Would you sit on a fence and watch an invasion take place? Right on your doorstep? When both the invaded and the invader were close to you? Ray Rance (a real estate agent), Leo Crowshaw (a restaurant proprietor) and Lynne Fleming (a hair salon operator) work in a shopping precinct that’s been hit hard by financial downturn but is set to enjoy a recovery as a boutique tourist area...read more

Product Description: In the island of Omanu, a Polynesian boy must choose between French ideas and his own ancient culture as his family battles a powerful developer intent on destroying their reefside paradise. Chris Ta'ufa is a friend to the local dolphins, but his feelings are compromised by tragedy...read more

Product Description: A.J. RAFFLES … Who is he and where did he originate? Ernest William Hornung, an Englishman invented this hero of the underworld more than a hundred years ago, in late Victorian England. The Author was the brother in law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous father of Sherlock Holmes and Dr...read more

Product Description: Because power is fragile, it requires you naked. That is why the most powerful people in the world have sex in hotels. In fact, having sex in the best hotels makes you powerful. It doesn't matter how good the sex is, only how good the hotel is...read more

Product Description: This is the story of Tonia Esqurit Ailbe, a highly intelligent mathematics professor, who has always wanted her own home to be a vibrant social centre. The opposite, alas, proves to be the case. And in another one of her strokes of genius Tonia realises that she can create this vibrant social centre in the reflection of her mirror, staring at herself there in her dressing-table mirror, her perfect Paradise, herself mixing with those desired others...read more

Product Description: Two plays with traditional songs included. Kilkenny Rose is set in gold fever times and tells of the lives of the women in the towns that existed then. Moonshine is about making illicit whisky using the recipe early Scottish settlers had brought with them...read more

Product Description: Graham McNamara’s last moments were spent hanging, suspended upside-down in his car. His kid sister, Lacrymosa screaming beside him. As he closed his eyes he had no idea the ripples that would be caused from this single moment. After years of grief and poor choices Wake Up joins his friends and family as life becomes catalysed by the death of Jerald VanHouston, the son of a crime boss in Melbourne...read more

Product Description: A secret. A murder. And a mangy old hen that cock-a-doodles in the morning and sets tongues wagging. The Trouble with Harry, by multi-award winning playwright Lachlan Philpott, rips back the curtains on the case of Eugenia Falleni, the notorious ‘Man-Woman’ murderer of 1920s Sydney...read more

Product Description: M. Rock is a magical new play, based on a true story, about the enduring joys of music, dancing and self-discovery.In his distinctive style, playwright Lachlan Philpott charts the fortunes of 18-year-old Tracey and her grandmother Mabel...read more

Product Description: Have you ever been afraid to speak in public? If so, you are not alone. Most people find speaking in public terrifying! But it doesn't have to scare you any longer. Whether you are a business person making a presentation, a motivational speaker delivering an address, a club member giving a report, a politician speaking out against an injustice, or someone making an introduction,an announcement or toast this book is for you! This book gives you an assortment of acting techniques, tips and exercises that will quell your nerves, wow your audiences, and help you feel more in control in all of your public presentation from now on...read more

Product Description: A young mother that feared for her life and had to run away and leave her children in order to survive.

Product Description: Two little girls from Charters Towers in Far North Queensland are abducted during the night and vanish. Torn and bloodstained remains of one girl’s dress are found on a remote roadway. There is no ransom demand and no contact by the girls or their abductor...read more

Product Description: The Chinese involvement in Australia's goldrush is a neglected part of history. Told in tough, uncompromising prose, this is the story of one Chinese and one Irish gang, and how they clashed over gold in 1863 in the wild Victorian highlands...read more