The play that launched Michael Gow’s playwriting career.In blazing heat, a stolen Mini hurtles towards Sydney. Inside, three unstable teenagers from the country—Snake, Aspro and Dean—plan a future that will begin when they collect Aspro's accident compo from the Department.Joined by Donald, an opera fanatic desperate for a change of scene, they travel to the city to take up residence in ‘the largest block of flats in the Southern Hemisphere'.As bush fires rage on th...

One of the great Australian classics, Away opens with a school performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the timeless Shakespearean themes of suffering, regeneration and reconciliation persist. It's Christmas in 1967 and time to re-enact the rituals of the summer holiday. Three Australian families set out separately but are driven together by a storm. At times funny and yet painfully truthful, Away explores the comedy and tragedy of their lives.*'*Awa...

A family secret, a terrible betrayal and an obsession to rewrite the past combine in an explosive cocktail of fact and fiction. This is Michael Gow's most uncompromising play.'Such was its intensity and energy, it was as if Gow had captured an emotional state and hurled it like a thunderbolt upon the stage for us all to see.' —Angela Bennie, Sydney Morning Herald

Studying comes naturally to Sam, but Danny finds it more difficult. Linda thinks Jenny is wasting her time while Cathy regrets not working harder. And all the parents are anxious...In All Stops Out, Michael Gow reveals different attitudes towards the dreaded end-of-year exams.

Will Drummond is bewildered. All the old certainties are coming apart. His parents are suddenly old, theatre is not what it used to be, people around him are losing their minds and losing faith, the world is shrinking, and what does it even mean to live in a society any more?Once in Royal David’s City is big and small at once, tumbling from the 50s to the present, from West Berlin to Byron Bay, from brief encounters to the cycles of history. It is about mothers and sons, l...

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has transformed the traditional understanding of the relationship between higher education and society. This has important implications for the relations of state, as education has not only become an object of national development policy but f...

The early 1980s brought dramatic changes in East-West relations. The decade began with the death of Yugoslavia's Tito, the birth of Poland's Solidarity trade union, and the U.S. election of Ronald Reagan as president. These key developments, together with the growing financial insolvency of the Soviet bloc and shifts in power in the Kremlin-culminating in the election of Mikhail Gorbachev as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985-signalled the end of an era. S...

Im wilden schottischen Hochland verschwindet der exzentrische Earl of Glendyle. Aber was haben Kerzen ohne Kerzenhalter, Edelsteine ohne Fassung und Schnupftabak ohne Tabakdose zu bedeuten? In einem verfallenen Schloss finden Father Brown und sein Freund Flambeau rätselhafte Spuren, die eine makabre Geschichte erzählen ...

Im wilden schottischen Hochland verschwindet der exzentrische Earl of Glendyle. Aber was haben Kerzen ohne Kerzenhalter, Edelsteine ohne Fassung und Schnupftabak ohne Tabakdose zu bedeuten? In einem verfallenen Schloss finden Father Brown und sein Freund Flambeau rätselhafte Spuren, die eine makabre Geschichte erzählen ...

As I wrote in the chapter on losing, you won’t always win and there is no assurance of winning even with my concepts! Bet only what you can afford to lose, and see you at the top!