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When Rob Ferguson went off to the five former Soviet 'Stans of Central Asia to work on a project to save the rapidly disappearing Aral Sea, he expected to have...

*Shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards 2021: 8 to 10 Years* Age range 9 to 14 Fiona Wood is a plastic surgeon whose expertise in burns...

When Sophie and Ash discovered they were expecting triplets, it was much more exciting than daunting. But when Sophie went into labour at only 21 weeks, their world was turned...

"Jayden James thought his family of five was perfect - until last Wednesday when Mitchell David arrived.Now the car's too small, picnics are ruined and no one's paying attention to...

NOTABLE, 2018 CHILDREN S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS, EARLY CHILDHOOD Frances and Lindsay Haji-Ali take us counting backwards from FIFTEEN to ONE on this spectactular...

Take a look through Australian history and how fences play both a practical and symbolic part in our story. From stone to post and rail, from the utilitarian to the...

John Clarke was best known as Fred Dagg in New Zealand and for 'The Games' and 'Clarke and Dawe' in Australia. He was a performer, actor, writer, satirist and commentator....

HOW CAN I MAKE A DIFFERENCE? WHY ARE THINGS SO SLOW AROUND HERE? IS THE PUBLIC SECTOR FOR ME?! Every day, new recruits join two million Aussie public servants striving...

A bewitching novel set in contemporary Japan about the mysterious suicide of a young woman. A bewitching novel set in contemporary Japan about the mysterious suicide of a young woman....

A companion title for the best-selling picture book, Scary Night, that takes us to the North Pole as three friends, Hare, Cat and Pig, set out on a journey. Once...

The sudden death of the town Marshall leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawmanand twenty-five-year-old Dara Rose Nolan without a husband. As winter approaches and her meagre seamstress income dwindles,...

Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In...

Following the success of The Seduction of Power, comes the next instalment which delves deeper into the life of Paul Valente and his family. Luca is dead and the Neapolitan...

Iran is probably the most misunderstood country in the world, and its people are among the most feared. Award-winning travel writer Jill Worrall, with her friend Reza Mirkhalaf, a leading...

This strikingly designed book explores how, through his work, Ai Weiwei raises a series of questions about cultural violence and critically reflects on China's history. He continues to fashion the...

Immerse yourself in Sydney florist Saskia Havekes' exhilarating and beautiful world of flowers in this showcase of her work with Grandiflora. The highly acclaimed business Saskia started 20 years ago...

An evocatively personal travel guide to one of Italy's most glorious regions, from an Australian who lived and loved it for 18 years. Australian Gourmet Traveller My Amalfi Coast is...

After doing time for accidentally burning down the historic Emily Dickinson House, Sam Pulsifer is determined to put the past behind him. He finishes college, begins a career, gets married...

p>The NSA (National Security Agency) remained secretive for a reason. A saying behind the scenes was, If no one talks, then no one dies. /p> p>The NSA, then the CIA...

On 23 May 1912, American Walter Burley Griffin was announced to the world as the winner of the international design competition for the new Australian capital to be built on...

Tim Reeves and Alan Roberts have carefully selected a diverse array of private and public dwellings from the first 100 years of Canberra. They reveal the social history and context...

World War 2 in the Asia-Pacific still casts many shadows. The shadows fall on the lives of Australian ex-POWs, soldiers and their families. Veterans are aged but recall horrors under...

Dearest Reader, Millions of posties have carried billions of letters across hundreds of years, and yet nobody has ever delivered a single word to describe a collection of them. But,...

This is the ultimate bible to Paris unknown. If you want to see Paris like it is in the movies, Nessy will show you the director's cut. If you seek...

When Emma Carmichael announced to her colleagues that she was buying a Zastava - the Yugoslavian answer to an Italian Cinquecento - to travel across their Balkan peninsula, they laughed...

Let's face it, there is only one Ponty. Pontypridd: birthplace of Tom Jones and the Welsh National Anthem, and home to what was once the most famous bridge in the...

Olivia returns home for her grandmother Sarah's funeral in 1984. Sarah was a loving matriarch in the village of Lindara. So why would someone spit at her coffin? In 1910...

What happens when you leave city life and move to five acres on a hunch, with a husband who's an aspiring alpaca-whisperer, and a feral cockerel for company? Can you...

Since its inception decades ago, the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons has offered an escape from the real world, the chance to enter distant realms, walk in new shoes,...

It's wrong in principle and it doesn't work in practice. (And no, it's not good for tourism.) It doesn't have to be this way. They say Britain should be proud...

Heartbreak and transformation in the beauty of a Ukrainian village For seven-year old Angela, happiness is exploring the lush countryside around her home in western Ukraine. Her wild imagination takes...

Muscles let you run, jump, play sport - or just sit still to read this book. Your bony skeleton holds you up and keeps everything in its place. Let the...

Slide down the layers of the Earth with the Stickmen, from the mountaintops to the grassy plains that teem with wildlife, and digging down through the crust to the super-hot...

Float with the Stickmen through all the layers of Earth's atmosphere and find out how the dark and distant edge of space gives way to our own troposphere - full...

When she moved from Scotland to America, Aefa Mulholland had never gone to a Highland Games, spoken Scottish Gaelic or played golf. Or worn a kilt or feather bonnet. Or...

'Charm, Belligerence & Perversity: The Incomplete Works of GBH'. showcases the ground-breaking work of the multi award-winning creative agency GBH. The story of this London-based team is one of diverse...

The history of architecture is a story of continual innovation, and yet at certain points within that story comes an architect whose vision completely defies convention. Mavericks: Breaking the Mould...

Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'. A generation on,...

Winner of the multi-authored book price, awarded by the Historians of British Art for 2020. As England's largest castle and premier royal residence, Windsor Castle is of outstanding importance: historically,...

Lindsay de Feliz walked away from an enviable lifestyle - marriage, successful career, expensive holidays, designer clothes, fast cars - to pursue her dream of being a SCUBA diving instructor....

It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chloe is preparing to...

The ancient woods of south-east Wales are treasures of a rich landscape. Describing the geology, history and flora of many individual woods, The Ancient Woods of South-East Wales recounts how...

Artist Simon Lewty is known for his large scale and intensely detailed works where the layering of text and image serve to create a dream-like reality. Narrative is rarely followed...

An easy-to-use comprehensive guide for writers on preparing and presenting their work to agents, publishers and print media. Regardless of the writer's level or ability, there is something extremely daunting...

Jerusalem is not an ordinary city and Crossing Jerusalem is not a standard telling of its story. At once a traditional travelogue, a questioning of spiritual values, and an examination...

Each year the magicians of Imardin gather together to purge the city streets of vagrants, urchins and miscreants. Masters of the disciplines of magic, they know that no one can...