Anne O Connor: 13 books
Translation and Language in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book provides an in-depth study of translation and translators in nineteenth-century Ireland, using translation history to widen our understanding of cultural exchange in the period. It paints a new picture of a transnational Ireland in contact with Europe, offering fresh perspectives on the...
by Mary-Anne O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
An Anzac tale of three families whose destinies are entwined by war, tragedy and passion.
At 17, Veronica O'Shay is happier running wild on the family farm than behaving in the ladylike manner her mother requires, and she despairs both of her secret passion for her brother's friend Jack Murphy...
A Slant of Light
Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting...
by Mary-Anne O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
From Darwin to Pearl Harbour, Sydney to Papua New Guinea, a compelling story of courage, honour and a great love set against the epic backdrop of the Second World War
Eighteen–year–old Junie Wallace is a smart girl and, with her two brothers away at war and her third brother just killed...
by Mary-Anne O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Set against the colourful backdrop of a swinging sixties Sydney and the brutality of the Vietnam War, War Flower follows the journey of six young people through their lives in a turbulent era, and asks — can love still prevail when horror becomes almost too much to bear?
Can love prevail,...
Understanding Physical Development in the Early Years
Linking bodies and minds
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Understanding Physical Development in the Early Years provides an accessible introduction to the current research and thinking in this area alongside descriptions of everyday practice. It explores the kinds of activities and experiences that promote physical development and offers practical guidance...
Understanding Transitions in the Early Years
Supporting Change through Attachment and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
There are many transitions that children experience before they are five, including the first major transition from home to an early years setting. Successive changes can have a serious impact on young children and stress, separation and insecure attachments can affect not only a child’s emotional...
by Anne Elise O’Connor, Christine Lalli Bavaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
The dreaded day has come and gone he has died and Im still here. I could not imagine a tomorrow without him.
Words and feelings echoed from the depth of pain so profound that recovery seemed impossible. How do we pick up the pieces of our lives and move on? If we allow it, grief takes us on...
The Lady in Gold
The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Bloch-Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century...
All Talk Monologues for Young People
6 Solo Plays
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A series of short, single voice plays by writers based in the North West of England. These powerful, contemporary monologues share the struggles, courage, conflicts and joys of different characters facing difficult decisions in their lives. Developed through consultation with young people, they offer...
Romana Gold Band 11
Das verwunschene Schloss / Sommertage in Schottland / Ein Schloss nur für uns /
Language: German
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Das verwunschene Schloss von Mather, Anne
Ein neuer Job führt Isabel in die schottischen Highlands und in das Schloss des Earl of Invercaldy - ein wahrer Traummann, der sich auch noch zärtlich um sie bemüht! Bedeutet sie dem Earl jedoch wirklich etwas, oder spielt er nur mit ihr?
Sommertage...
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 9
Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This collection of essays explores how drama can teach political principles and entertain at the same time.
Political commentary is possible through "variety" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville,...