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A delightful adaptation of four Beatrix Potter stories suitable for the entertainment of younger children. In The Story of Miss Moppet the kitten tricks the mouse by playing ill, but is outwitted in the end. The Tale of Two Bad Mice finds Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca thrown into tempers by the inedible model food in Jane's and Lucinda's doll's house. ¿The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit features a rabbit with savage whiskers and a turned-up tai...

Argentinian artist Adrian Villár Rojas's artist's book The End of Imagination, a dystopian graphic novel, weaves together three stories: The Last American, a futuristic novel by John Ames Mitchell from 1889, The Last Joke on Earth, an essay about the end of the world that Rojas himself wrote in 2011, and images taken from the 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie, the first Mickey Mouse film to be set to music. This montage of literature and ca...

Henry Kendall was once regarded as Australia's finest poet, compared favourably with Wordsworth. His poetry was romantic, sentimental in its celebration of the Australian bush he loved. But he was more Henry Lawson than John Keats: a self-pitying wife deserter, cadger and drunkard. And it ran in the family.From 1859, Kendall published prolifically in newspapers and periodicals. But he struggled to support a wife and children through poems and ...

It should have been a paradise, but paradise is what you lose, it is what you might have had. An elderly woman who has lived for many years on a tropical island off the Queensland coast with her beachcomber husband waits for help from the mainland. For three harrowing days, alone. He has died, his body lies in their cabin just up from the beach, and while she awaits help she reviews her reclusive life there, of nearly 25 years with him. She is...

William Dampier, the 'devil's mariner' as he has been called, a far voyager and traveller extraordinaire, lived in an era when, more truly than in other periods of history, the past was being put behind the present, and everything was new - a new world discovered by the first stirrings of the new science, under a new political and economic formation.Dampier's Monkey examines the late-17th century ways of comprehending an expanding world by re-...

For just over 100 years an institution for the mentally ill has stood on little Peat Island, in the lower Hawkesbury. It was decommissioned in 2010, quite empty now, it remains a locked facility just as it had always been. And eerie. The last residents were dispersed into the wider community. In this, they echoed the fate of the Darkinjung people, original custodians of this country - their community was scattered just as intentionally, and ef...

It should have been a paradise, but paradise is what you lose, it is what you might have had. An elderly woman who has lived for many years on a tropical island off the Queensland coast with her beachcomber husband waits for help from the mainland. For three harrowing days, alone. He has died, his body lies in their cabin just up from the beach, and while she awaits help she reviews her reclusive life there, of nearly 25 years with him. She is...

The Collesses. Theirs is the story of Australia itself. Convicts, bushrangers, cattle thieves, pioneers, punters, graziers, ANZACs, floods and droughts, boom and bust, they lived right through it all. Their story is every bit as comprehensive as Dorothea Mackellar's "I love a sunburnt country". They were right in the thick of our founding cultural history, they helped to make it, helped make this land. From Bird's Eye Corner to the far corner ...

Containing detailed instructions on all aspects of heart catheterization and angiography, Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Intervention acts as a concise and invaluable guide for the cardiology trainee.

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Many of Mitchell's plays and adaptations have been published by Oberon Books and Absolute Classics.

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The Adventures of Robin HoodDiscover the legend of Robin Hood through eleven action-packed adventure stories. Created by celebrated writer Adrian Mitchell and award-winning artist Emma Chichester Clark, this glorious collection captures all the drama, excitement and humour of these classic tales.

Provides a unique perspective on twentieth century literature and drama from a well known figure.

Originally published in 1962, this volume comprises a series of essays on British geography by various authors.

Come On Everybody brings together poems from a dozen collections published by Adrian Mitchell over five decades, from Poems (1964) to his final collection, Tell Me Lies (2008).

Acclaimed playwright, novelist and peace activist Adrian Mitchell's stage adaptation of Pushkin's classic was his last project before his death.

A young girl embarks on an epic quest to save the boy she loves in one of the most stirring Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. Full-color illustrations.

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