Books published by publisher Currency Press Pty Ltd

Hayaat and her family spend their days dodging curfews, trying to buy a week’s groceries before the sirens blare, remembering their home among the olive groves before it was taken from them. But when the curfew breaks and her beloved grandmother Sitti is taken to hospital, Hayaat sets out on a mission to retrieve a jarful of soil from the family’s old farm so she can grant Sitti’s last wish of touching the soil of her homeland once more. All Hayaat and her friend Samy have to do is cross the hated wall that divides the West Bank and traverse the most dangerous patch of land on earth. Eva Di Cesare has adapted Randa Abdel-Fattah’s book into a daring adventure of freedom and friendship, exile and courage, family and love.

‘Zachary’s height is exactly the height of an average boy for his average age. Zachary’s hair lies exactly the way of an average boy’s on an average day. And when he dreams at night, Zachary dreams the most average dreams. Because Zachary Briddling ... is awfully middling. And it makes him so grumpy!’Zachary wants to be different. So he thinks of all the other places out there—filled with giants, and miniatures, and hairy things, and flying things—places where he should not be middling at all. And so he sets out ... to stand out.The Grumpiest Boy in the World is a playful escapade of the imagination celebrating ordinariness and extraordinariness—and the grumpiness that can come from thinking we have too much of one, or not enough of the other.

This collection of criticism is on four of the most-studied plays of J.M. Synge. Along with W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory he created the Irish literary movement and the Abbey theatre. The playwright is acknowledged to be in the forefront of modernist literature. Major critics include William Empson to Hugh Kenner and writers from George Moore to Frank O'Connor.

Tamara and Jasyn are in love. Jasyn lives with Aunty and his brother Dane is in prison for dealing. Jasyn wants to take Tamara to the formal, but he hasn’t got the cash.In a world of absent mothers and missing fathers, Mrs Petchall battles to keep another year of students out of the ranks of the vanished. The Outsiders is on the syllabus again, but instead of Socs and Greasers, this is the world of Speds and Skanks—fuelled by Red Bull and powered by iPods. It can be hard to find your own rhythm when everyone is marching to the beat of a different drum.