Author : Ruth Park
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0670076864
'Now then,' thought Abigail, 'something very weird has happened to me. I'm in the last century. I don't know why, and that doesn't matter. I've got to get back.' Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our country's most memorable children's books in the Penguin Australia Children's Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind.
Author : Ruth Park
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1742530869
The game is called Beatie Bow and the children play it for the thrill of scaring themselves. But when Abigail is drawn in, the game is quickly transformed into an extraordinary, sometimes horrifying, adventure as she finds herself transported to a place that is foreign yet strangely familiar . . .
Author : Ruth Park
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780808561002
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1667623680
Author : Ruth Park
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction in English, 1900- Texts
ISBN : 9780855946081
Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0141926546
*WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR* Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic 'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Independent For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. But, for Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal. Brimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man. 'Hornby has put his finger on truths that have been unspoken for generations' Irish Times 'Funny, wise and true' Roddy Doyle
Author : Sonya Hartnett
Publisher : Candlewick
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 153620644X
SURRENDER is a mesmerizing psychological thriller from extraordinary novelist Sonya Hartnett. I am dying: it’s a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small, unforgiving town and distant, punitive parents ensure that he is never allowed to forget the horrific mistake he made as a child. He has only two friends - his dog, Surrender, and the unruly wild boy, Finnigan, a shadowy doppelganger with whom the meek Gabriel once made a boyhood pact. But when a series of arson attacks grips the town, Gabriel realizes how unpredictable and dangerous Finnigan is. As events begin to spiral violently out of control, it becomes devastatingly clear that only the most extreme measures will rid Gabriel of Finnigan for good.
Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802194052
Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld of post-war America. The Burroughs-like protagonist of the novel, Bill Lee, see-saws between periods of addiction and rehab, using a panoply of substances including heroin, cocaine, marijuana, paregoric (a weak tincture of opium) and goof balls (barbiturate), amongst others. For this definitive edition, renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has gone back to archival typescripts to re-created the author's original text word by word. From the tenements of New York to the queer bars of New Orleans, Junky takes the reader into a world at once long-forgotten and still with us today. Burroughs’s first novel is a cult classic and a critical part of his oeuvre.
Author : Ruth Park
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 1993-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857969978
Written as vividly as any of her novels, Ruth Park's autobiography is a moving, passionate, often funny account of the people and places which influenced her early years. Her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand fed her fertile imagination; her convent education encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression exposed her to poverty and injustice.
Author : Robyn McCallum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135581290
Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian approach to subjectivity, language, and narrative. The ideological frames within which identities are formed are inextricably bound up with ideas about subjectivity, ideas which pervade and underpin adolescent fictions. Although the humanist subject has been systematically interrogated by recent philosophy and criticism, the question which lies at the heart of fiction for young people is not whether a coherent self exists but what kind of self it is and what are the conditions of its coming into being. Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction has a double focus: first, the images of selfhood that the fictions offer their readers, especially the interactions between selfhood, social and cultural forces, ideologies, and other selves; and second, the strategies used to structure narrative and to represent subjectivity and intersubjectivity.
