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Beloved by Toni Morrison
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - first published in 1987 - brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrenc ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A story set in the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish slavery are at their height, and one man's world of love turns to violence when his daughter dies at the hands of her mother. From the author of EN-GENDERING and NOBEL SPEECH.
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today by Simon Morrison
24.99 AUD
Category: History
In this "incredibly rich" (New York Times) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage. A critical triumph, Simon Morrison's "sweeping and authoritative" (Guardian) work, Bolshoi Confidential, details the Bolshoi Ballet's magnif ...Show more
Bolshoi Confidential - Secrets of the Russian Ballet - from the Rule of the Tsars to the Age of Putin by Simon Morrison
34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Reading Level: very good
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin. The crime, organized by a lead soloist, dragged one of Russia's most illustrious institutions into scandal. Under Vladimir Putin, the Bolshoi Theatre has been called on ...Show more
Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement by Toni Morrison
16.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union. But the recent presidential election has shined a spotlight on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Both provocative and timely, "Burn this Book" includes ...Show more
Captain Sneer the Buccaneer by Penny Morrison; Gabriel Evans
24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
ARRR! Captain Sneer and his hardy crew of buccaneers are in for adventure – and a big surprise – in this rollicking rhyming treasure hunt. (Age 3 plus) Ahoy there, me hearties! Meet CAPTAIN SNEER – a most boastful buccaneer! He’s ROUGH and TOUGH. He’s BRAVE and BOLD. He SAILS the SEAS in SEARCH of GOL ...Show more
Cast a Cold Eye by Robbie Morrison
34.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Cast a Cold Eye by Robbie Morrison is a dark historical crime novel and the sequel to Edge of the Grave which won the Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut 2021 award and was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger. Glasgow 1933 Murder is nothing new in the Depression-era city, especially to war vete ...Show more
Cruden Farm Garden Diaries (HB) by Michael Morrison; Lisa Clausen
49.99 AUD
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants | Reading Level: General Adult
Cruden Farm was given to the late Dame Elisabeth Murdoch in 1928 as a wedding present from her husband Sir Keith Murdoch. The farm at Langwarrin, about 50 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, was a place she cherished throughout her long life. The beautiful garden she created there with gardener Michael ...Show more
David Syme: Man of the Age by Elizabeth Morrison
39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From Victoria's goldrush of the 1850s to Melbourne's boom of the 1880s and bust-to-recovery of the 1890s, newspapers dominated the Australian publishing scene. Uniquely they provided local, intercolonial and international news, magazine content from the popular to the intellectual, and the latest litera ...Show more
Desdemona by Toni Morrison
21.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoré, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse ...Show more
Edge of the Grave (TPB) by Robbie Morrison
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Jimmy Dreghorn Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison is a dark historical crime novel set in Glasgow, 1932. A city still recovering from the Great War; split by religious division and swarming with razor gangs. For fans of William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw, Denise Mina and Philip Kerr. When Charles Geddes, son-in-law of one ...Show more