Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf

Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf'A fantasy, impossible but delicious an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary SupplementFirst masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in

I see the Country

journalist and author of the bestselling book

At thirty-five

On the streets of Alice Springs

Two companions who were never meant to be released

and wakes up the sleeping red beast: `I hate you - I'm gonna sort you out

it's a blood sport

you would have been proud to be one of them and called them mates

their parents and teachers will learn all they need to know about the elements of grammar

from the rugged almost impenetrable flanks of the MacDonnell Ranges to the Simpson Desert

People have gone to prison for much lesser things than accusations of child-killing

The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single volume in Penguin Modern Classics Growing up in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen