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Arabian Nights (Young Vic Version)Dominic Cooke
A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights. $27.99
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CloudstreetNick Enright, Justin Monjo
Cloudstreet follows the fluctuating fortunes of two families who inhabit a rambling old house in Perth. $25.99
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The ClinkStephen Jeffreys
Elizabeth I is tottering at death's door. Conspirators are everywhere. Lucius Bodkin, an Elizabethan stand-up comedian, becomes unwillingly involved in the political skullduggery and jiggery-pokery surrounding the ailing queen. $24.99
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The Woman in the WindowAlma De Groen
Two worlds ruled by terror interact: Russia’s poet-hero Anna Akhmatova is under house arrest in Stalinist Leningrad, while her friends attempt to save her writings. In a futuristic Australia, a similar oppression by corporate society has suppressed all memory of literature and the natural world. $25.99
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Perfect DaysLiz Lochhead
A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock. $27.99
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OedipusSophocles Translated by Kenneth McLeish
The story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster down upon his city and family. $14.99
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Howie the RookieMark O'Rowe
A white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable. $24.99
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PoeticsAristotle Translated by Kenneth McLeish
One of the most influential tracts in world theatre, Aristotle's Poetics is crucial to an understanding of how drama works, and how it has evolved. It is the source of the doctrine of the Three Unities – of Time, Place and Action – and the concept of catharsis in tragedy. Writing only a hundred years after Sophocles and Euripides, Aristotle's insights into Greek drama are endlessly rewarding. $19.99
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NavigatingKatherine Thomson
A small seaside town drifts in the wake of its painful past and the corruption of its leaders. An embattled woman is determined to expose the truth when she finds herself in possession of damaging documentary evidence. $25.99
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All for LoveJohn Dryden
Antony and Octavius Caesar are struggling for control of what was to become the Roman Empire. Antony and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, are lovers and political allies, but their forces have been defeated at the battle of Actium. $14.99
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