Joan Lindsay: 6 books

‘I know you’re there… Miranda? Miranda!’ On a summer’s day in 1900, three Australian schoolgirls on a picnic expedition to the remote Hanging Rock abscond from their group. They are last seen heading towards the beckoning Rock… In Tom Wright’s chilling adaptation of Joan...

Joan Lindsay's classic novel Picnic at Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period of Australian social life drawn with loving nostalgia. The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged...

***Now a six-part TV series starring Natalie Dormer, from Amazon Prime* A 50th-anniversary edition of the landmark novel about three “gone girls” that inspired the acclaimed 1975 film, featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed** It was a cloudless summer...

14 février 1900, Australie. L’été touche à sa fin. Les jeunes pensionnaires de Mrs Appleyard attendent depuis des mois ce pique-nique annuel, non loin de Hanging Rock. Revêtues de leurs mousselines légères, elles partent dans une voiture tirée par cinq chevaux bais magnifiques. Après le...

IN DEN ARMEN DES MILLIARDÄRS von ORWIG, SARA Megan glaubt zu träumen. Vor ihr steht Jared: sexy, gefährlich arrogant lächelnd, inzwischen ein millionenschwerer Unternehmer … Geh weg, will sie rufen, wir brauchen dich nicht! Aber das wäre eine glatte Lüge. Sie braucht ihn so sehr. Und ihr Sohn...

Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines is not about the variations of usage of the term “sport.” It is about the concept, the range of activities in the world that we unite into one idea—sport. It is through the project of defining sport that we can come to understand these activities better,...