Pasteur's Gambit

Stephen Dando-Collins

In 1887, the desperate NSW government of Sir Henry Parkes advertised an international competition for a biological cure for the rabbit plague then ravaging the farms of Australia and New Zealand. In Paris, famous microbiologist Dr Louis Pasteur, struggling to raise the funds to open his prestigious Past...

Basketball! (Sporty Kids)

Felice Arena

Time was running out. Jessica looked up at the ring. With an almighty toss, she took a shot at the basket. Everyone held their breath . . . Jessica is a basketball all-star. So why does she need lucky shoes?...

The Past

Tessa Hadley

A mesmerizing novel about family and the modern world encroaching upon the old, from one of Britain's finest contemporary novelists.   Three adult sisters and their brother meet up at their grandparents' country home for their annual family holiday--three long, hot summer weeks. The beloved but crumbl...

Picturehouse Poems - Poems about the Movies

Harold Schechter (Editor); Michael Waters (Editor)

The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston Hughes and John Updike on the theaters of their youth, Jack Kerouac and Robert Lowell on Harpo Marx, Sharon...