Johnno

Author : David Malouf
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702258032
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johnno written by David Malouf and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite Johnno's assertion that Brisbane was absolutely the ugliest place in the world, I had the feeling as I walked across deserted intersections, past empty parks with their tropical trees all spiked and sharp-edged in the early sunlight, that it might even be beautiful ... " Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of his home town or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. An affectionately outrageous portrait, David Malouf's first novel recreates the war-conscious forties, the pubs and brothels of the fifties, and the years away treading water overseas.

Author : David Malouf
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702230158
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johnno written by David Malouf and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Johnno's assertion that Brisbane was absolutely the ugliest place in the world, I had the feeling as I walked across deserted intersections, past empty parks with their tropical trees all spiked and sharp-edged in the early sunlight, that it might even be beautiful . . . 'Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of his home town or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape.

Author : Eileen Merriman
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 0143775413
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Wolf written by Eileen Merriman and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SECOND RIVETING BOOK IN THE FAST-PACED BLACK SPIRAL TRILOGY. Back from Germany and the assignment that went horribly wrong, Violet doesn’t know who to trust: It’s fortunate for me that the Foundation staff can’t read my thoughts. . . If they could read my thoughts, they’d never let me go. I’d be a liability, and I know what happens to liabilities. Phoenix is equally adrift: For an hour I will forget who I am, what I have done . . . But . . . I will wake with the heavy knowledge that I am the Black Wolf, never to be trusted, never to be loved — because the only people I’ve ever loved are either dead or hate my guts. The only thing both of them know for sure is that they have to escape the Foundation’s clutches . . .

Author : Kieran Hurley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350334790
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kieran Hurley Plays 1 written by Kieran Hurley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-award-winning Scottish playwright Kieran Hurley has been making waves since the early 2010s with his vivid storytelling and searing honesty, creating plays acutely concerned with society and community, and deeply enmeshed in Scotland's local political context. Tracking the evolution of Hurley's work from his early solo shows to his later large-cast plays and featuring an introduction by Scottish theatre critic Joyce McMillan, this is an exciting collection showcasing one of the UK's most exciting creators of politically-engaged theatre. The plays collected are: Hitch (2010): a previously unpublished solo show about Hurley's hitchhiking trip to the 2009 G8 meeting in L'Aquila, exploring the meaning of political protest. Beats (2012): a coming-of-age story exploring the aftermath of the 1994 Criminal Justice Act outlawing raves. It was adapted into a film in 2019, garnering nominations for BIFA Best Debut Screenplay and WGGB Best Screenplay. Heads Up (2016): a ferocious piece of storytelling asking what we would do if we found ourselves at the end of our world as we know it. (Winner of the Fringe First Award 2016.) Mouthpiece (2018): an unflinching Edinburgh-centric two-hander which examines whether it's possible to tell someone else's story without exploiting them along the way. (Winner of the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award 2019.) The Enemy (2021): a provocative and timely drama offering a uniquely Scottish take on Henrik Ibsen's timeless work An Enemy of the People.

Author : Bill Reed
Publisher : Reed Independent
ISBN 13 : 0994322747
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bullsh written by Bill Reed and published by Reed Independent. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous narrative writtenn for nthe stage around Ron Edwards' best-selling book 'Australian Yarns'

Author : Charles Spencer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668046407
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Very Private School written by Charles Spencer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “A tour de force.” —The Washington Post In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood.

Author : William Lane
Publisher : Transit Lounge
ISBN 13 : 0994395736
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salamanders written by William Lane and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘This is the shape-shifting detail of life, the tiny horrible and beautiful things we don't notice until fever or trauma stop us in our tracks; Lane has pulled them from the depths of our psyche and written them into a story of family that shifts and tilts the world we know. Dreamlike, nightmarish, unforgettable.’ - Jane Rawson, author of A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists and Formaldehyde At its heart, The Salamanders is a love story. Arthur lives in a hut by the Hawkesbury River, the detritus of suburban life gradually encroaching. When Rosie, the adopted daughter of his fathers' second wife returns from England to visit. their time together raises childhood memories of their father Peregrine, a famous and controversial artist, and what happened at a holiday by the ocean years ago. Rosie, Arthur and Peregrine are characters the reader will find it hard to let go of and this is also a subtle, affecting novel of ideas. With poetic, hallucinatory power, Lane explores how art can become life, how we as adults cannot truly escape the past and the influence of our parents, and how we might embrace the intensity and beauty of the moment as we journey towards reconciliation.

Author : Suhayla El-Bushra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350033618
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Theatre Connections 2017 written by Suhayla El-Bushra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology features work by some of the most exciting and established contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays collected offer young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of material to perform, read or study. Each play has been specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department with the young performer in mind. The anthology contains 10 play scripts; notes from the writer and director of each play, addressing the themes and ideas behind the play; and production notes and exercises for the drama groups. This year's anniversary anthology includes plays by Suhayla El-Bushra, Anders Lustgarten, Robin French, Tim Etchells, Patrick Marber, Kellie Smith, Lizzie Nunnery, Harriet Braun and Alistair McDowall.

Author : Arthur W. Upfield
Publisher : ETT Imprint
ISBN 13 : 1922384577
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Widows of Broome written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broome is a little sun-drenched town on the barren north-west coast of Australia, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business, where all the little bungalows might be glass for all the secrets they hide. How then had the murderer of Broome's two most attractive widows got away without leaving a single clue? Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte investigates, with his usual calm precision - but the murderer strikes again, and Bony realizes he is dealing with a madman - that time is running out... Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives - BBC

Author : Iris Carden
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1470966395
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Group Meeting written by Iris Carden and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Novella) In a facility for people recovering from mental illness: a group of people with sinister pasts starts to be visited by a girl who doesn't exist.