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A History of Japan in Manga: Samurai, Shoguns and World War II
Author: Kanaya Shunichiro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The entire fascinating story of Japan told in one exciting manga-style volume! A History of Japan in Manga tells the action-packed...
The Good-Enough Life
Author: Avram Alpert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society. We live in...
Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift
Author: Nadia Wheatley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'I know it's a daring suggestion, but I'll make it anyway.' Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical...
Dirrarn: Daisy Utemorrah Award Winner
Author: Carl Merrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Age range 10+ Mia could hear the squarks of her Jarriny before she saw them. Her eye's had flicked to the...
Becoming Kirrali Lewis
Author: Jane Harrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Age range 12 to 18 Through a pair of ornate wrought-iron gates was one of the oldest universities in the country....
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK
Author: Brett Mason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in...
The Bible in Australia: A cultural history
Author: Meredith Lake Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 *Winner of the Nonfiction Award 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature* *Winner of the 2019 NSW Premier's History Award: Australian History...
Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia's biggest business scandals
Author: Quentin Beresford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Crown Resorts, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten's Allied Medical Group, 7-Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes...
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began...
How to Knit a Human: A memoir
Author: Anna Jacobson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did it....
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023
Author: Donna Lu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Should we alter animals' DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth's...
Humpback Highway: Diving into the mysterious world of whales
Author: Vanessa Pirotta Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 I entered the water quietly and saw two humpback whales sleeping diagonally in the distance. Two school buses just hanging in...
Kin: Family in the 21st century
Author: Marina Kamenev Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Here's an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon - any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw...
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 This fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a...
Gum: The story of eucalypts & their champions
Author: Ashley Hay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 No matter where you look in Australia, you're more than likely to see a eucalyptus tree. Scrawny or majestic, smooth as...
Curlews on Vulture Street: Cities, Birds, People and Me
Author: Darryl Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Darryl Jones, author of Feeding the Birds at Your Table, reveals the not-so-secret lives of the most common birds that share...
The Little Red Writing Book
Author: Mark Tredinnick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 The Little Red Writing Book is a lively and readable guide to lively and readable writing. A book on technique, style,...
I Can Count
Author: Sally Morgan Format: Board book Number of Pages: 20 Age range 0 to 5 'I can count to ten! Can you count to ten with me?' Another testament to...
The Relationship is the Project: A guide to working with communities
Author: Jade Lillie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Community-engaged practice is not an art form. It's not an add-on. It's a way of working; a deep collaboration. The Relationship...
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
Author: David M. Pena-Guzman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming. Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What...
Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi
Author: Alison Pouliot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'In the gloom of the forest floor, fallen branches are sheathed with fungal stripes of yellow and purple. But beneath the...
Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement
Author: Henry Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 **Winner, Educational Publishing Australia Awards 2021, Non-Fiction Book of the Year** **Winner, Tasmanian Literary Awards 2022, Premier's Prize for Non-fiction at...
2024 Australasian Sky Guide
Author: Nick Lomb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 All you need to know about the night sky This popular guide by astronomer and author Dr Nick Lomb provides stargazers...
The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
Author: Adrienne Mayor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures...
1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed
Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Eric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilisations of the...
ABC Origami: Learn Your Alphabet and Numbers Through Origami! (80 Cute & Easy Paper Models!)
Author: Naoko Ishibashi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Age range 5 to 8 Learn your letters and numbers by folding cute paper origami models! Naoko Ishibashi is Japan's #1...
Learning Mandarin Chinese Characters Volume 1: The Quick and Easy Way to Learn Chinese Characters! (HSK Level 1 & AP Exam Prep Workbook): Volume 1
Author: Yi Ren Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Reinforce your written Chinese with this practice book for the best-selling Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters. Learning Mandarin Chinese Characters helps students...
Little Bird's Day
Author: Sally Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 *A CBCA 2020 Notable Book of the Year: Early Childhood* *A CBCA 2020 Notable Book of the Year: Picture Book* *Shortlisted...
The Korean K-Drama Cookbook: Make the Dishes Seen in Your Favorite TV Shows!
Author: Choi Heejae Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Eat like your favourite K-Drama TV Stars! If you're a fan of Korean dramas, or simply a fan of Korean food,...
Brother Moon
Author: Maree McCarthy Yoelu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 *Shortlisted for the 2021 Environment Award for Children's Literature: Picture Fiction* Great-Grandpa Liman lives in a small house by the...
The Little Corroboree Frog
Author: Tracey Holton-Ramirez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 The Little Corroborree Frog is a wonderful children's story that gently introduces the serious plight of one of Australia's most endangered...
True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture
Author: Terri Janke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 *Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022: Indigenous Writers' Prize, presented biennially* Indigenous cultures are not terra nullius - nobody's...
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
Author: Hal Brands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1200 The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world The New Makers of Modern Strategy...
How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small
Author: M. D. Usher Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals - and our vital relationships with them....
Ruby Moonlight
Author: Ali Cobby Eckermann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby,...
False Claims of Colonial Thieves
Author: Charmaine Papertalk Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 Shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal 2019 'A gentle whisper from the past Visits me in my dreams Or is...
Dr Rip's Essential Beach Book: Everything you need to know about surf, sand and rips
Author: Rob Brander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 How do waves break and what makes good surf? What are dangerous rip currents and how do you spot one? What...
Hidden Japan: An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests
Author: Alex Kerr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Originally published in Japanese as a call to preserve disappearing facets of Japan's rich and ancient culture, this book takes its...
The End of the Morning
Author: Charmian Clift Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift. 'In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle...
Translating Myself and Others
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects...
Kindred
Author: Kirli Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 100 *Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021* *Shortlisted for the ABIA 2020 Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year* This...
Revealing Secrets: An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence & the advent of cyber
Author: John Blaxland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 For a long time, the Australian Signals intelligence (or Sigint) story has been kept secret. Until now... Why does Australia have...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History
Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Cooee Mittigar: A Story on Darug Songlines
Author: Jasmine Seymour Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 *Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Children's Literature* *Shortlisted for the SPN Book of the Year Award 2020* *Longlisted...
The River
Author: Sally Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 *CBCA 2022 Notable Book: Early childhood* *Longlisted for the ABIA Book Awards 2022: Small Publishers' Children's Book of the Year* Age...
Sharing
Author: Aunty Fay Muir Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 *CBCA 2022 Notable Book: Early childhood* Age range 3 to 6 When we share, there is plenty for all. A...
Open Your Heart to Country
Author: Jasmine Seymour Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Indigenous Writers' Prize** **Shortlisted for the 2023 Karajia Award for Children's Literature** Age range 4+...
Thank You Rain!
Author: Sally Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Age range 4+ Another simple, universal story from Sally Morgan and Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr, this time, a beautifully illustrated celebration of...