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Chinese by birth, Eurasian by blood, Mei-Ling Wang's extraordinary life is a mirror of our time. Born in China in 1949, the year of the Red Army's entry into Beijing,...

People expect much more from their home these days, especially after spending a year cooped up inside. They want a home designed and built to last for generations, and this...

In the triumvirate of dominant structural building materials-wood, metal, and masonry-each has its advantages, but none are as intertwined with the human spirit as wood. Thirty-five public buildings illustrate how...

Omega has become the watchmaker with the highest name recognition in timekeeping for personal and sports events worldwide. If the father owned an Omega, so does the son. This important,...

As a child, Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his mother. The world knew nothing of his living nightmare and he had nothing and no-one to turn to....

The story of ocean liners brought to life by objects and ephemera, revealing life on board, luxury and magnificence, and peril and disaster. Explore the history of the great ocean...

Kids with Tricky Behaviours don't need to be 'fixed' because they aren't broken. They do, however, need to be shown ways to play to their own strengths and to learn...

AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR In 1988 Colin Smith began researching the history of renowned Australian potter, Merric Boyd and his family in Murrumbeena and the relationship they had with their local community....

Ten-year-old Georgina 'George' Doherty lives a free-and-easy life with her father, Seamus, in the coastal town of Mirmouth, Western Australia. Together with her best friend Mac, she spends her time...

What Will You Make Today? is a non-fiction picture book that invites children to explore the many ways they can make a difference in the world. In a world bursting...

Finn travels the world in a magical quest to find the golden bird, in the company of a wise old fox. Rory releases a captured mermaid from his fishing net,...

A woman, an obsession, an unforgettable bestseller. Television war correspondent Nicky Wells is a media superstar. Courageous, beautiful and renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the world's most dangerous trouble...

Such a Long Journey is set in Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in...

Alentejo Blue is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through men and women, children...

Reality is juggled with myth in three fantasies set in Paris, Pharaoh's Egypt, and the world of hobos. From the author of cult classics The Fan Man, Fata Morganna and...

When a band of smugglers sails for Tasmania, believed to be the Garden of Eden, they find the British civilization of the aboriginal tribes in full force. Each character has...

In his new book, , Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Before The Origin, biology...

Harry Pendel is a British tailor in Panama City with an impeccable reputation, an invented past, and a gift for telling people what they want to hear — qualities that...

Though plastic has numerous benefits, our reliance on this sturdy, light and flexible material, paired with its longevity and our changing consumer habits means we've created a real plastic problem....

W.A.R.P. The Forever Man is the third book in the new time-travel adventure series from the bestselling author of Artemis Fowl. You can't outrun your own history . . ....

When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was...

A family divided by war but united by love. Marianne seems to have everything. She is married to a handsome naval officer, Neil Sheridan, commander of a corvette. They have...

In Edwardian England a vow of friendship is a thing of innocence. Even when tested by the passionate militancy of the suffragette movement or the rigorous demands of the Season,...

"[A] superb biography....Scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical, and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times." --Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka Simon Dixon's Catherine the Great is a complete and...

Third in Laurie King's popular Mary Russell crime series: 'Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels...civilised, ingenious and engrossing' - Literary Review August, 1923. The quiet in the Holmes household in...

In this richly illustrated landmark book, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones documents the sold, stolen and destroyed works of Banksy, perhaps one of the most renowned and controversial artists of...

4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntlets. I hope they're not...

A seductive writer with an imagination that makes her dangerous to know.' Sunday Express When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes, the finger...

What would drive an 18-year-old youth to bash, dismember and mutilate the body of a former lord mayor of Wollongong? Mark Valera stuck tiepins into his victim's eyes and kicked...

How can you raise kids well if you are a busy working parent? Parenting expert Michael Grose has all the answers. Is it really harder than ever before to juggle...

Discover the original novel set in the Halo universe, based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! Saskia, Dorian, Evie, and Victor aren't exactly friends at their small...

In book two of the DemonWars Saga, Elbryan and Pony fervently hope that the tide of darkness is at last receding from the land of Corona-but if evil is on...

Liv tries out for the Gloomsdale Elementary Ghoul Squad in this second book in the Spirited graphic chapter book series. Liv Livingston feels she's finally found her footing in her...

In the fourth installment of the action-packed Guardians of Horsa graphic novel series, the Guardians venture to the Fire Realm. The Guardians seek a hidden relic inside the Fire Realm,...

A message in a bottle launches a quest for the recovery of shipwrecked crew in this Jules Verne classic-now with an arresting new look! When Lord and Lady Glenarvan catch...

From Edgar Award-nominated author Martha Freeman comes a "delightful" ( Kirkus Reviews ) middle grade mystery following a young boy working at his family's secondhand store that is a steal-your-heart...

"Operation Jonah" is a fictionalized account of the true story of one child's abduction and the community that mobilized to find him and bring him home. Surrounded by escalating violence...

Rudeness, laziness, apathy, back talk, and self centeredness...this description fits many teens, preteens, and younger children, but these behaviours may be helped or even halted by diet in as little...

A timely edge-of-your-seat thriller from a debut writer to watch. Caroline is only three months from her great escape --- leaving behind her rigid prep school and the parents who...

A wickedly funny cautionary tale about the perils of missing the most important meal of the day! Croc is running late for his shift as the river ferry. No time...

"Captivating" Marie Claire As morning dawns in a sleepy Colorado suburb, a dusting of snow covers high-school freshman Lucinda Hayes's dead body on a playground carousel. Accusations spread quickly and...

The fifth book in the New York Times new adult series that began with Real. When an angry, heartbroken girl is forced to be near her rocker ex-boyfriend, only time...