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There is a risk in telling another's story especially when passed down through the family and there are many layers to a life that each person may only glimpse part...

For 20 years Australia has been in political denial about the seismic changes occurring in the way we power our country. Successive governments continue to tell people that power prices...

Are you having trouble choosing a name for your baby? Do your parents want to follow a family tradition? Does your partner really like a name you absolutely hate? Or...

The air fryer is a game-changer for families and is fast becoming a must-have in our kitchens. This amazing appliance makes preparing a delicious, nutritious and satisfying meal for the...

It's 1956 - the year the Olympic Games came to Melbourne. Jack Spiller and his small town mates are caught up in the excitement of the torch relay. But when...

LONGLISTED for the 2020 Colin Roderick Award. Theywere two little girls on a very big boat. In the 1930s, Ada and Leyla meet aschildren on a boat bringing migrants from...

Sophie Guidolin's mission is to inspire and empower children with their food choices, from toddlers through to teens My Kids Eat volume 2 is the follow-up to Sophie's successful first...

Did you know that Koalas poo more than 200 times per day? that s more than once every 10 minutes! This is just one of the hundreds of fascinating animal...

Insight Shakespeare Plays - Macbeth is a comprehensive and informative guide for students and teachers. This all-in-one resource contains the entire play, plus analysis of key themes, historical context and...

Lean back and settle in for cutting-edge scientific snippets from the trend-setting Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. In Short Back & Science, Dr Karl combs through some of the greatest scientific conundrums...

Everything you need to know about the most fascinating, beautiful and intriguing natural places around the world today. Full colour photographs and detailed descriptions feature in a pictorially beautiful book.

Written by an experienced and awarded psychologist, Listening, Learning, Caring and Counselling is essential reading for counsellors, support workers, case workers, medical practitioners, health professionals - from physiotherapists, pharmacists, doctors,...

Fred is a dreamer who likes to give the teacher answers the teacher does not expect. Fred even points out where he thinks the teacher gets it wrong. To make...

What if we don't die? What if we are not alone in this world? What if life wasn't meant to be a struggle? And what if in fact love does...

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten, true story of one of the US's first female deputy sheriffs....

Type 1 diabetic & stroke survivor Barnaby Howarth was three-quarters through writing his autobiography in 2005 when he had a stroke and was placed on life support after being bashed...

In post-war Australia, William Dobell was a household name. But the most famous artist in the land was a broken man. His Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Joshua Smith was the...

Wherewithal has fallen When their beloved home comes under siege, the Wherewithal crew flee through the portal to the Realm of Fae. Behind the walls of the Faerie Market, they...

**Shortlisted, Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2025** After living in a Singapore dog shelter for five years, Gucci a vaguely Dalmatian-like crossbred is losing hope of ever being rescued. One...

From Alex Price's on-field karaoke session to Rob Quiney's resurrection of a dead seagull and Shane Watson's formidably funny front pad, these are the moments of physical slapstick and verbal...

I'm just an average person who refused to let a diagnosis of an autoimmune disease define who I am or how I live. I've spent the last ten years extensively...

'A great book - storytelling with heart, and a testimony to truth.' - Tony BirchWhen a tragic bushfire puts two kids in hospital, Indigenous teenager Andrew knows the police will...

In 2018, seventeen-year-old Sunny and Toby are on the run after zombies have destroyed most of the adults in their world. Cut to 2034 when Sunny is being held in...

Have you ever gotten lost in a book? Entranced into the world of a mysterious old story of Alice Springs published a hundred years ago, Millie, a Warlpiri teenager, is...

There's great tastes the world over, from Tokyo to Berlin, Discover them all and make your tastebuds sing . There's sweet, salty, bitter and umami . Doesn't that last one...

Bestselling author Dr John Medina turns his expertise to the professional world, guiding the reader through what brain science and evolutionary biology have to say about topics ranging from office...

'He took up the book and opened the battered cover. It had swollen with age, humidity and use, the pages rippled together like seaweed in a current, like billowing grasses,...

Escaping certain death in the potato famine, teenager Jane Bell became one of hundreds of Irish orphans shipped to South Australia to work as a domestic servant. Arriving in the...

Fourteen years ago Michael dazzled the world with Ephesus, a brilliant debut novel that him the respect of his peers, plenty of easy sex and the coveted Booker Prize. Since...

At seventeen, Jacklin Bates is all grown up. She's dropped out of school. She's living with her runaway sister, Trudy, and she's in secret, obsessive love with Luke, who doesn't...

For the past five years Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that...

Henry's balloon slips from his hand and drifts into the sky...it drifts up and up to the balloon cloud, a special cloud in the sky where all the lost balloons...

A Lifetime on Clouds is funny, honest and sweetly told- a less ribald, Catholic Australian Portnoy's Complaint. Introduced by Andy Griffiths. Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of...

Winner: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult Fiction Shortlisted: Children's Book Council of Australia, Young Adult Fiction Shortlisted: Queensland Literary Awards, Young Adult Fiction Michael's older brother dies at the...

Why isn't the Great Barrier Reef considered the world's best coral reef? How on earth do you choose the best mountain? What makes a place worthy of being called the...

Age range 5 to 9 When a Bedouin boy, Omar, is separated from his family in Libya during WW2, he makes his way to the coast to look for them....

Who was Isabella Mary Kelly? Media sensationalism and colourful folklore labelled her a "wanton with a whip" and a "bitter sadistic hell-cat of a woman". Legends of her infamous adventures...

For many years it was assumed that poetry came from England. Research now clearly demonstrates, however, that a great many of the world's most famous poets were actually Australians. Possibly...

Caretta Rutledge thought she'd left her troubled family behind. But an unusual request from her mother just as her own life is spinning out of control has Cara heading back...

A boisterous picture book full of noisy fun for machine-mad kids. "Plan the road. Plan the road. Mark it on the map." Roadworks takes the reader through all the stages...

Can it Text? Blog? Scroll? Wi-Fi? Tweet? No ... it's a book. No matter how many electronic devices are available these days, you can't deny the simple appeal of a...

Emily Tempest is small, black, as snaky as a taipan's tooth and is the woman least likely ever to embark on a career in policing. But her old mate Superintendent...

From one of the world's leading photographers, this is a beautifully illustrated coffee-table book of the beginning of life. Award-winning photographer Anne Geddes founded a new tradition in visual storytelling...

Why be poor when you could be rich? The men in this book have made millions upon millions of dollars. They all started with nothing. Get inside the minds of...

A black comedy that begins at a funeral. Max has a plan. A plan to help out his favourite uncle one last time. Even if Dad grounds him. Even if...