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Harries: The lifeguard from Bondi Beach
We all have different abilities. But sometimes, we need to dig a little deeper to find our own special gifts . Well-known Bondi Rescue lifeguard Anthony 'Harries' Carroll wasn't always...
ACU Art Collection: First Impressions
Highlights from the university collection are here elucidated by 33 Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors from various academic, visual arts and ACU backgrounds, each bringing their knowledge, experience and cultural perspective...
ACU Art Collection: A New Perspective
A richly illustrated publication featuring highlights from the ACU Art Collection with accompanying essays by scholars, arts writers and commentators.
Claustrophobia
Claustrophobia is the taut, compelling story of a young Perth wife who sets about toprotect her husband by stalking his ex-lover, but unexpectedly falls into apassionate affair and a world...
Invisible Dogs
When you start school, sometimes you need a best friend (or two). Ida is so noisy at home, but at school she is so quiet she doesn't make any friends....
Bonsai
Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples,they lie to each other,...
Diego Garcia: A Novel
Edinburgh, 2014: N. and L., two writer friends arrive from London, a city they believe killed L.'s brother. Every day they try to get to the library to write their...
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee
In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torncountry, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when...
Emergency
Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. Stuck at home alone under lockdown, awoman recounts her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She watches a...
Immanuel
In Immanuel , winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in Winchester. As McNaught moved away from the faith...
The Second Body
Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink and sleep; it is also...
Essayism
The essay is a venerable form that may well be the genre of the future. It has its origins in a mode of self-examination and even self-obsession - 'it is...
The Doll's Alphabet
Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies - many images recur in stories that are in turn child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark. In 'Unstitching', a feminist revolution...
Great Explorers
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The book titled Great Explorers by the author Roderic Owen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Shanghai Fury: Australian Heroes of Revolutionary China
The third in the 'Fury' trilogy, following on from the bestsellers Pacific Fury and Anzac Fury. Shanghai is a city defined by war. The city and its armed struggles were...
Life with Luciano: Life with Luciano
This biography looks beyond Luciano Pavarotti's public image to reveal details of his life and character that only a wife could know. Adua Pavarotti paints a candid and intimate portrait...
The Rape of Tutankhamun
The book titled The Rape of Tutankhamun by the author John Romer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Untouchable: Robert De Niro - Unauthorised
The book titled Untouchable: Robert De Niro - Unauthorised by the author Andy Dougan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
King of Misrule
The book titled King of Misrule by the author Barbara Paul. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
In a Strange Room
A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way -...
Waterloo: The Battle That Brought Down Napoleon
The battle on Sunday 18th June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium was to be Napoleon's greatest triumph - but it ended in one of the greatest military upsets of all time....
Axis Ascendant 1941-42
Part of a series telling the complete story of the Second World War.
The Treasures of Beethoven
Examines the story behind the music - of the small boy spurned by his fellows at school and pushed by his father to succeed where he had failed, of the...
Great Escapes: Thrilling escape stories from Devil's Island to
Great Escapes brings together extraordinary stories of daring escapes from prison, prisoner-of-war camps and other places of incarceration and confinement, drawn from every period of history and from every corner...
The Red Book
Francoise, an Australian photographer, comes to Bhopal to bear witness to the city's continuing trauma. There she meets Naga a Tibetan refugee whose family died in a disaaster twenty years...
Cary Grant: A Biography
Cary Grant is Hollywood's most fascinating and timeless star. Born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England, he went on to become the movies' favourite romantic lead, remarkably, for over thirty-five years....
Art of Love: The Most Elequent Love Passages in Shakespear's Plays a
The beauty and meaning behind his poetry and prose has meant that Shakespeare's work has lived on throughout history long after his death. We still fall in love and become...
Angels: Artists & Inspirations
Angels, or angel-like beings, have appeared in art from around the world for millennia. Though intrinsically a religious concept, they seem to also represent a universal ideal of purity, benevolence...
Giving Professional Presentations in the Behavioral Sciences and
The prospect of public speaking is daunting and often frightening for many people. Despite this, most students and professionals must make public presentations in one capacity or another over the...
Traitors' Gate: Book Three of Crossroads
Reeve Joss is struggling to defend a country ravaged by the assaults of twin armies. His men now patrol a land of burning villages and homeless refugees as Joss tries...
The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric
This guide covers over 600 species from predatory dinosaurs to primitive amphibians, from giant armoured fish to mammoths and sabertooths. Accompanying each illustration are biographies of the creatures, detailing how...
How It Works: The Universe
A stellar introduction to the Universe and the invisible forces that hold it together. Blast off to investigate the mysteries of the Universe: from blazing stars to the unreachable depths...
There There Little Lamb
Stroke the sweet little lamb better in this touchy-feely book. Take care of a sweet fluffy lamb in this adorable touch-and-feel book. Stroke the little lamb's velvet nose better after...
All About Starting School
A super-friendly and interactive introduction to help prepare young children for the world of school. What is a school? Why do we have to go there? How will we get...
Sea Monsters Puzzle Book
A big book of themed puzzles with fascinating facts about real and mythical monsters of the sea. Children will be excited to discover facts about the biggest, fastest and deadliest...
Build Your Own Greek Gods
A thrilling sticker book with 12 Greek gods for you to complete. Build 12 of the wild and wondrous gods of Greek mythology in this captivating sticker book - from...
Sparkly Santa Sticker Book
Watch Santa as he prepares for Christmas, with lots of sparkly stickers. Join Santa as he checks his list, packs his sleigh and flies all around the world with his...
Victorian Tales of the Weird: A curated anthology of Victorian and
From a dancing automaton running amok at a ball, to a prehistoric beast lurking in the depths of a Yorkshire cave, this anthology explores the nature of the 'old weird',...
Sticker Dolly Dressing Cinderella
A delightful Sticker Dolly Dressing version of the magical story of Cinderella. Discover the magical world of Sticker Dolly Dressing! Use the stickers to dress the doll characters in this...
Representations of the Intellectual
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses...
Bricks and Mortar
Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of...
One Boat
On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast - the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself...
Flower
'I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.' Flower is a book of realistic...
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic...
Precarious Lease
In her extraordinary non-fiction debut, Jacqueline Feldman tells the story of Le Bloc, a legendary squat situated at the far edge of Paris, near where the banlieue begins. Opened in...
A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture
'If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,' says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language , the lecture he delivered...