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'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate - my hand leaps to the shelf' PAUL THEROUX 'The most original and interesting novelist of his generation' ALLAN MASSIE,...

This is a story of the vainglorious and often brutal attempt to control and harvest the Earth's most precious resource.

Develop and exploit logistics strategies. In today's highly competitive global marketplace, the pressure on organizations to find new ways to create and deliver value to customers grows ever stronger. There...

With recipes and numerous colour photographs Torode''s Thai Trek is a practical guide to cooking Thai food. Torode explains all there is to know about the ingredients in Thai food,...

Public lettering in all its forms--official inscriptions on buildings, commercial graphics, signs, epitaphs on tombstones, graffiti--is a fixture of urban life. In Public Lettering, Armando Petrucci reconstructs the history of...

A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, Tosca is one of the most popular operas ever written. In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that...

Everybody's looking for Grandad's lost teeth, and they're in a most unlikely place! they'll never find them... Something strange has happened in a rather quiet ordinary town - and no...

My grandad has an attic filled crazy old stuff, including clothes made from animals. My grandad has a weird hat he lets me wear sometimes. It is a racoon hat...

Punctuation can make all the difference between a good piece of writing and a superb piece of writing. In The Art of Punctuation, Noah Lukeman explores and demystifies each punctuation...

This volume of the "Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia" covers social, economic and political changes that have taken place since 1800. With over 2400 alphabetically arranged entries, and maps and diagrams integrated...

This volume of the "Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia" covers world history from the early civilizations, ancient Egypt, biblical times and the Greek and Roman empires, to 1800. With over 2400 alphabetically...

This edition of the Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary offers essential coverage of Latin words and grammar, as well as extra information on Roman history and culture. It takes account of...

Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson's seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award. Combining meticulously-researched fact with refreshing opinion...

At last the real stories behind some of Australia's unique and best-loved words are now ready to be told. A companion volume to Bruce Moore's highly-successful Speaking Our Language, this...

This work is intended for general readers of military history titles, especially works in this series and Guns and Brooches . Veterans and descendants of the WRAAC. Also military historians...

From Jacobsen to Tupperware, this fascinating new dictionary of Modern Design covers the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Over 2,000 entries on names and...

If you're happy and you know you can clap your hands...but you can also wag your tail, snap your teeth, beat your chest, jump and boing! This wonderfully exuberant animal...

Imagining Australia: Australian History, VCE Units 3 & 4 is an exciting new text written by an expert author team to address the requirements of the new Australian History study...

Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South Boston-they know it as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and...

The extraordinary and inspiring true story that became an internationally bestselling book and award-winning film, Lion. Now a stunning picture book illustrated by multi-award-winning illustrator, Bruce Whatley. The extraordinary true...

Let's stand up and acknowledge the young Aussies who are using their actions and voices to change our world for the better. From slam poet Solli Raphael to gender equality...

The latest novel from Australia's most popular, and award-winning romantic suspense writer, Helene Young. Photojournalist Ellie Wilding has been running from her past, but when the residents of Half Moon...

Like Charles Seife's Zero and Dava Sobel's Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered...

Picking up where his acclaimed Ghost Dance left off. Douglas Wright chronicles, after a series of bereavements, his decent into depression, despair and suicide. We meet the inhabitants of Hallburn...

A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe. Charged with the task of restoring a magnificent...

Travel back to a vanished world with the celebrated children's history series 'Thunder crashed across the sky. Fire-dragons soared through the heavens. And then, one fine June day, came the...

The tale of a prince, a princess, perfect politeness, pages of love and a peculiarly hard pea. Lauren Child's beautiful and artistic retelling of The Princess and the Pea. The...

Daniel Silva is a repeat New York Times bestseller Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed...

A brand new imprint from Penguin Classics Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing...

Step into a very public marriage, in the compulsive novel from the bestselling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman Fanny Savage was once dutiful, clever, vulnerable and dreamy. Now...

Beautifully repackaged reissue of Penelope Lively's classic memoir The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house Golsoncott. Years later, as...

Who sank the boat? Was it the cow or the donkey or the sheep with her knitting? Surely it wasn't the tiny little mouse? Winner of the 1983 Australian Picture...

Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx. By drawing on both the poetry and the prose of all six Celtic languages, this "Celtic miscellany" succeeds in reflecting the...

Sophisticated new reissue of the bestseller's emotional, intriguing novel about a quest to uncover a sister's past Bee Bearhorn had a number-one hit single in 1985 - and was never...

As she works her way from defiant teenager to reluctant career girl, growing older and getting smarter, Jane manoeuvres her way through love, sex, relationships, and the occasional perils of...

Teresa's passionate love for Maurice fills her mother with dread. During the long hot summer, Pauline finds herself remembering the way that her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her...

People are compelled to keep diaries for a great many different reasons. Although they are the most private form of writing, there have been few diarists who have not in...

This second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanish-speaking world. Again much of it is from Latin America, Carlos Fuentes being Mexican, Norberto Fuentes...

This comprehensive single-author text provides balanced and thorough treatment of the major problem areas of business ethics along with abundant cases to facilitate class discussion.

Measuring the User Experience provides the first single source of practical information to enable usability professionals and product developers to effectively measure the usability of any product by choosing the...

These easy-to-read books are a perfect introduction to the history of Scotland. Full of little-know facts and color illustrations, these books help bring history to life. The Stationery Office.