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Detention: A rookie teacher. The toughest prison school in Australia.
'Honest and courageous . . . This book is the report card we've all known was coming.' - Gabbie Stroud, bestselling author of Teacher What happens when your first teaching...
The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II
**Shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime** Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members....
The Man Who Couldn't Wait: The true story of Australia's first
'I think that every now and again our wonderful system cocks up, and this was one of those times.' Former ALP Senator Graham Richardson Cabramatta was embroiled in a heroin...
Tales from a Bondi Vet: An international hit TV series
A chronicle of the daily life of Bondi vet Chris Brown. Chris is a country boy who grew up with a menagerie of pets and now, along with his failed...
Last Truck Out
WWII 1942-Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and...
Lance Franklin: My Football Journey
Lance Franklin : My Football Journey is a stunning celebration and companion to the career of one of Australia's most revered AFL players, Lance 'Buddy' Franklin. Lance Franklin has held...
Snowy Mountains Daughter / Snowy Mountains Cattleman
Welcome to Bundilla. A close-knit community where romance can blossom. The first two novels in the bestselling series from award-winning Australian author Alissa Callen. Snowy Mountains Daughter Small-town Bundilla is...
The Great Southern Reef
Age range 6 to 9 Have you heard of the Great Southern Reef? Join Professor Seaweed and her friends Frankie and Sam to learn more about one of Australia's best...
A Swag of Memories: Australian bush stories
What bush life was really like before the days of motorbike and helicopters. Brian Taylor has lived in the Queensland bush almost all his life, and knows it well: the...
The Reunion: A gripping, atmospheric thriller with a jaw-dropping
'The pace spirals and the twists multiply' S. R. WHITE , author of international bestseller Hermit The Dry meets The Hunting Party in this gripping thriller set in the isolated...
Grog War
A revamped Magabala classic by Miles Franklin awardwinning author Alexis Wright. First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Indigenous people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve...
The Red House: Kumanjayi Walker and Zachary Rolfe: An Australian
A young Aboriginal man and a white police officer face each other in a house in the desert. The violence that passes between them carries the pain and anger of...
Momentum
Momentum showcases the vigour of contemporary architecture in Victoria- innovative, formalist, edgy. Successive generations of Victorian architects maintain the tradition of experimentation. We see this in the work of the...
You call it desert - we used to live there
The first draft of this book was written under a tree on the slope of a sandhill where, for several years, Englishwoman Pat Lowe shared a desert camp with her...
Sir John Medley
Geoffrey Serle is a graduate of the University of Melbourne where he taught history before moving to Monash and the Australian National universities. He was general editor of the "Australian...
The Making of Modern Australia
Filled with reminiscences about Australia since World War Two plus William s own anecdotes and observations, THE MAKING OF MODERN AUSTRALIA touches on the celebrations, sorrows and spirit of the...
Cloudstreet
The iconic Australian masterwork as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the...
Hawke PM: The making of a legend
The companion volume to YOUNG HAWKE: the making of a larrikin from the award-winning historian and author of CURTIN and CHIFLEY Bob Hawke was one of the most influential Australians...
Great Properties of the Riverina and the Upper Murray
Great Properties of the Riverina and Upper Murray follows on from the bestselling Great Properties of Country Victoria and Great Properties of Tasmania, and tells the story of sixteen significant...
Trim, The Cartographer's Cat: The ship's cat who helped Flinders map
Not many ships' cats have even one memorial statue, let alone six. But Trim does, including one outside Euston Station in London, proudly unveiled by Prince William on the bicentenary...
Women & Children
A powerful, personal novel about women, children and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed writers. It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb...
Stone Yard Devotional: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 and One
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 A NEW YORK TIMES ' 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR' PICK Washington Post 's Top Ten Books of the Year 2025 Los Angeles...
Making Progress: How Good Policy Happens
Learn about transformational reforms like paid parental leave, the NDIS, the Apology to the Stolen Generations, and revolutionising pensions from Labor's Jenny Macklin, with insights from Julia Gillard, Ross Garnaut,...
Lethal Lizards
'Galibaay had tricked him. That dillybag was full of honey. It stuck in his throat and made his neck flare out into a big red-and-yellow frill.' Lethal Lizards is the...