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This beautiful, haunting novel begins as Niska is reunited with her nephew, Xavier, after he returns from the horrors of the First World War. As she slowly paddles her canoe...

In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the...

Just days before an international medical convention begins, terrorists abduct a leading scientist from the Centers for Disease Control, the shadowy laboratories that serve as America's first line of defense...

Megan and Cisco Flynn are back in town. Nobody had ever been caught for the Klan murder of their father, Jack, and Detective Dave Robicheaux knows that trouble cannot be...

Ella and Micha have been best friends since they were kids. But one tragic night shatters their friendship and their lives forever. Ella used to be a rule-breaker with fiery...

Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown - and his estranged father - after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise. The town is still...

This sourcebook of ideas is designed to help teachers, students and others interested in education to understand and engage in philosophical enquiry with children. It illustrates how philosophical discussion can...

Don Schmidt knows his name has changed from Stanley, and he believes he had a sister and she died of scarlet fever when she was fifteen but these and other...

In the past few years the reading group phenomenon has swept the country and more and more people are becoming interested in either becoming a member of one or setting...

On the night the Used Women's Book Club meet to swap novels the husband of one of its members is being brutally murdered. It isn't the first time Rob has...

Amelia Lindsey is an exceptional young woman. She shares her days between a grandmother whom she loves, a mother whom she tolerates with patient fortitude, and Gerald. They had fallen...

As a discerning reader of nineteenth-century American fiction, Englishman Colin Ware is familiar with the tradition of transcending disastrous love affairs by booking the next ocean liner to Europe. Now...

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean." Since time immemorial, humans have been captivated by water. No wonder: it's the most omnipresent substance on...

Like A YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING this powerful and touching book is both an inspirational read and a comfort to those who are looking for help in overcoming loss. The...

Colin Thompson's first, highly autobiographical, adult novel. He has created an intense, moving, yet funny story about losing and then retrieving sanity. It is the story of a young man...

The first title in Robert Hood's gripping new series about creatures from the Shadow Realm - teenagers who were once taken out of their time and place by a sinister...

The Wanton Bride by Mary Brendan Mark Hunter managed to vex her at every opportunity - and seemed to enjoy doing so. Though to prevent a family scandal, Emily Beaumont...

Teachers are all around us -- it's time to give them a gold star! The new bestseller from the creators of IF I WAS PRIME MINISTER. School teachers teach us...

A Scobie Malone mystery set in the world of shady financial deals and desperate dreams.

Alby Murdoch is back in the saddle and sweating it out in the jungles of Vietnam and the bars of Saigon, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Darwin on the trail of...

The author tells the biography of the pound from the Vikings to cyberspace, when - single European currency or not - it may have come to the end of its...

A provocative novel about love and death and the narrow line between them. Over one weekend in a small Tasmanian town, a transsexual mortician prepares three bodies for burial at...

This subtle, intelligent novel soothes as well as disturbs, like the undulating music of the flute that flows through it. This mesmerising novel draws us in to a life that...

This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky...

Consumption of alcohol: Illegal. Football and other "violent" sports: Illegal. Ownership of guns, chain saws, and/or large dogs: Illegal. Body piercings, tattoos: Illegal. Its late in the twenty-first century, and...

Think carefully... Thats the advice Jean Wainwright always gets from her beloved Aunt Constance, Jeans guardian and headmistress at the boarding school where she lives. Its advice that proves valuable...

More from the Wimpy Kid. Jeff Kinney's endearingly self absorbed 'paper-son' offers more reflections on life as a stressed-out teen. In The Third Wheel, love is in the air-but what...

The Sydney Hobart yacht race is world famous: the crowds at the Boxing Day start; the Harbour full of colour; giant super-maxis competing for line honours and glory. But in...

AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR Fil always suspected that her cat Harry could talk if he really tried. Sometimes she even dreamed about it. But it was still a shock when he did...

The sport of triathlon has evolved considerably since the first triathlon-like events were held in Australia in 1980 and 1981. The Australian triathlon journey is full of triumphs. Australia hosted...

It's the adventure of a lifetime. An Overseer has crossed generations to save the world. Times itself is moving too quickly, with each day becoming shorter than the last. Society...

Bowls Skills

Until the First World War, the estate gardens at Heligan were one of the glories of Cornwall. Thereafter, through growing neglect, they slipped gradually to sleep. This is the amazing...

Inside the Scriptorium in the Museum of Magical Miscellany, a black flame flickered across an open page. The letters of the spell twisted and distorted in the dark fire until...

The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First...

'The knives are out for you, always. But that is the mission you accepted, David. So you have to face the knives, with fortitude. Just as we ask of the...

From the author of The Child that Books Built , a rapturous history of the amazing achievements of British engineers. Britain is the only country in the world to have...

Twenty-eight-year-old Harvard-educated Billy Schine finds himself suddenly without prospects - a balled-up bit of litter riding the boom of New York in the nineties. His classmates make millions on Wall...