The play that launched Michael Gow’s playwriting career.In blazing heat, a stolen Mini hurtles towards Sydney. Inside, three unstable teenagers from the country—Snake, Aspro and Dean—plan a future that will begin when they collect Aspro's accident compo from the Department.Joined by Donald, an opera fanatic desperate for a change of scene, they travel to the city to take up residence in ‘the largest block of flats in the Southern Hemisphere'.As bush fires rage on th...

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has transformed the traditional understanding of the relationship between higher education and society. This has important implications for the relations of state, as education has not only become an object of national development policy but f...

Will Drummond is bewildered. All the old certainties are coming apart. His parents are suddenly old, theatre is not what it used to be, people around him are losing their minds and losing faith, the world is shrinking, and what does it even mean to live in a society any more?Once in Royal David’s City is big and small at once, tumbling from the 50s to the present, from West Berlin to Byron Bay, from brief encounters to the cycles of history. It is about mothers and sons, l...

One of the great Australian classics, Away opens with a school performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the timeless Shakespearean themes of suffering, regeneration and reconciliation persist. It's Christmas in 1967 and time to re-enact the rituals of the summer holiday. Three Australian families set out separately but are driven together by a storm. At times funny and yet painfully truthful, Away explores the comedy and tragedy of their lives.*'*Awa...

A family secret, a terrible betrayal and an obsession to rewrite the past combine in an explosive cocktail of fact and fiction. This is Michael Gow's most uncompromising play.'Such was its intensity and energy, it was as if Gow had captured an emotional state and hurled it like a thunderbolt upon the stage for us all to see.' —Angela Bennie, Sydney Morning Herald

Studying comes naturally to Sam, but Danny finds it more difficult. Linda thinks Jenny is wasting her time while Cathy regrets not working harder. And all the parents are anxious...In All Stops Out, Michael Gow reveals different attitudes towards the dreaded end-of-year exams.

A heartwarming, true story about George, a rescue dog who helps his owner rediscover love and happiness. Marley & Me meets Tuesdays with Morrie and The Art of Racing in the Rain--get your tissues ready, animal lovers!After Colin Campbell went on a short business trip abroad, he returned home to discover his wife of many years had moved out. No explanations. No second chances. She was gone and wasn’t coming back. Shocked and heartbroken, C...

The long-awaited, inspiring autobiography from Kerry Katona. Updated for the paperback.Kerry Katona has been one of the most talked about celebrities of the last 12 years. Since bursting on the scene in 2000 with girl-band Atomic Kitten, her turbulent life has made her the subject of thousands of articles and numerous reality TV shows.Kerry released her first autobiography, TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG in 2006, but since then her life has become hardly recognisable, ...

This is the story of a truly gifted woman who discovers her extraordinary abilities the hard way. Along her excruciating journey, she is taught Life's toughest lessons and eventually its deepest meaning.Charmaine's story delivers an important message of hope and trust in what lies beyo

This heart-warming new book from Georgina Walker is packed full of real-life encounters with loved ones who have passed over. Here everyday people share their remarkable stories of amazing synchronicities and unexpected moments of magic in amongst the overwhelming grief that surround times of separation and loss. Many accounts tell of guidance by departed loved ones, some of funny incidents that bring laughter amidst the tears. Most importantly each story contains further insights into the...

All three of Jenny Tomlin's bestselling memoirs in one eBook collection: her number one bestselling childhood memoir of abuse, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS; the sequel to her bestselling memoir, written with her sister, SILENT SISTERS; and NEVER ALONE telling her own - and other - stories of those surviving abuse.

What If 'The One' …isn't?After meeting the gorgeous and charismatic Simon, Georgia Cassimatis swaps her fabulous life in Sydney for Los Angeles – risking it all for a chance at love. Georgia soon finds out, however, that Simon is not the man he seemed to be, and she has left her entire world behind for a loveless marriage with a man who is intent on making her miserable.LA is a tough town – especially for a girl with no friends, no money and no job. But Georgia finds her wa...