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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...
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Author: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2015* *Winner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural...
Darwin Spitfires: The real battle for Australia
Author: Anthony Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 are well known to most Australians, but what happened afterwards? For...
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....
How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism
Author: Diogenes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity. The Cynics were...
The Australian Schoolkids' Guide to Debating and Public Speaking
Author: Claire Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Age range 10+ Welcome to the world of school debating and public speaking, the best training ground for speaking, reasoning, arguing...
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...
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....
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...
Maneki Neko: The Japanese Secret to Good Luck and Happiness
Author: Nobuo Suzuki Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 What does 'good luck' look like and how do you achieve it? The Japanese have been doing it for centuries! Lucky...
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...
Living on Stolen Land
Author: Ambelin Kwaymullina Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 *Longlisted for the 2021 ABIAs: Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year* You are on Indigenous lands, swimming in Indigenous waters,...
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...
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...
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...
Benny Bungarra's Big Bush Clean-Up
Author: Sally Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Benny Bungarra comes to the rescue when Olive Python's head is stuck in a plastic bottle, Colin Crow's beak is entangled...
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...
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History
Author: Bruce Pascoe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 *Winner of the CBCA 2020 Eve Pownall Award for Information Books* *Winner of the Booksellers' Choice 2020 Children's Book of the...
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,...
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...
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...
Super Snake
Author: Gregg Dreise Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Age range 5 to 10 'You can't have a rainbow without water. Dhurraluwi guuma-li - Come together! Wantima - Rise up!...
Uncle Xbox
Author: Jared Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 Age range 7 to 12 'Nooooo,' I yelled and then Mum ran into the room in panic. 'What is it, what...
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions...
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2: The Second Bakery Attack; Samsa in Love; Thailand
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally in graphic novel form! Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies...
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging
Author: Cher Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise - something new and...
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project
Author: Red Room Poetry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change...
The Chipilly Six: Unsung heroes of the Great War
Author: Lucas Jordan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 On 9 August 1918, at Chipilly Spur overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German...
Animals in my Garden
Author: Bronwyn Houston Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Age range 0-3 Bronwyn Houston makes counting from one to ten so much fun! From kookaburras to ants to dragonflies,...
Two Mates
Author: Melanie Prewett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Age range 5 to 9 Two Mates is the true story of the special mateship between two young boys who have...
Returning
Author: Kirli Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 'Mate, you're standing on stolen land.' Returning is a stunning work a poetic and visual feast that takes you on Kirli's...
Origami Paper 500 sheets Rainbow Colors 6" (15 cm): Tuttle Origami Paper: Double-Sided Origami Sheets Printed with 12 Color Combinations (Instructions for 5 Projects Included)
Author: Tuttle Studio Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 0 This pack contains 500 high-quality origami sheets printed with bright colors of the rainbow. These beautiful origami papers...
Bush Mob Counting
Author: Helen Milroy Format: Board book Number of Pages: 12 Age range 1+ The characters in Bush Mob Counting are from the 'Tales from the Bush Mob' Series of books...
Bindi: Winner of the Daisy Utemorrah Award
Author: Kirli Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 **Winner, 2019 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Daisy Utemorrah Award** **Winner, 2021 Australia Books Industry Awards, Small Publishers' Children's Book of...
Beetles of the World: A Natural History
Author: Maxwell V. L. Barclay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Beetles make up about a quarter of known animal species and are arguably the most diverse group of organisms...
Wasps of the World: A Guide to Every Family
Author: Simon van Noort Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A richly illustrated guide to wasps around the world. Wasps have been around since before the dinosaurs and are one...
Sharks of the World: A Complete Guide
Author: Dr. David A. Ebert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 The most comprehensive reference guide to the world's sharks - now fully revised and updated Sharks of the World...