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Contemporary Australian Monologues for Men by Emma Rose Smith (Editor); Claire Grady (Editor)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Plays
This is particularly out of character for me.' Monologues are a crucial element of theatre, for actors and students alike. From high school study to professional auditions and performances, the monologue exposes the heart of a play and the capacities of the performer. The monologue should be relevant to ...Show more
Contemporary Australian Monologues for Women by Emma Rose Smith (Editor); Claire Grady (Editor)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Plays
'One eye closed, the other locked on my target.' Monologues are a crucial element of theatre, for actors and students alike. From high school study to professional auditions and performances, the monologue exposes the heart of a play and the capacities of the performer. The monologue should be relevant ...Show more
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. For centuries past, and all across the world HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. there are words that have defined and decried us. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. fire up our blood; FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. words that tell a story I ...Show more
Portable Magic - A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
$45.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The Times Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow ...Show more
Portable Magic: Our Long Love Affair with Books by Emma Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
An excitingly revisionist history of bibliophilia, from the celebrated author of This is Shakespeare 'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The ...Show more
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith
$49.95 AUD
Category: Plays
This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred y ...Show more
The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio by Emma Smith
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This book, generously illustrated with key pages from the publication and comparative works, tells the human, artistic, economic and technical stories of the birth of the First Folio – and the birth of Shakespeare’s towering reputation. In late November 1623, Edward Blount finally took delivery at his b ...Show more
The Million Pieces of Neena Gill by Emma Smith-Barton
$16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens YA
How can I hold myself together, when everything around me is falling apart? Neena's always been a good girl - great grades, parent-approved friends and absolutely no boyfriends. But ever since her brother Akash left her, she's been slowly falling apart - and uncovering a new version of herself who is al ...Show more
This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
$45.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Pelican Bks.
'I admire the freshness and attack of her writing, the passion and curiosity that light up the page. The book does something very important - it makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other ...Show more
This is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Pelican Bks.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An outstanding book ... lively, curious and passionate' Literary Review Why should you read a book about Shakespeare and his plays?Because he is a timeless genius whose work encapsulates the human condition?Or is it something more unexpected?
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