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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence The "closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted" (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Under a White Sky ) story of climate migration in...
Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
A New York Times Editors' Choice One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "A beautifully wrought ode to life...a precious gift to the world." - The Washington Post From...
Getting Clean With Stevie Green
The author of the "sparkling dark romance" ( Redbook ) We Could Be Beautiful brings her "wit and verve" ( The New York Times Book Review ) to this quirky,...
Locust Summer
Shortlisted for The Australian Vogel's Literary Award, Locust Summer celebrates the wide-open beauty of Australia's regions while exploring the heartbreaks that come from living on the land. On the cusp...
A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline
A tender, thoughtful story about a woman's journey back to her home town - and the painful moment that changed her life forever. After forty-five years in Sydney, Cassandra Aberline...
The Coves
A historical fiction novel set amongst the turmoil, loyalty and violent betrayal of the gold rush era. San Francisco, 1849- a place gripped by gold fever, swarming with desperate men...
Wedding Bush Road
When Daniel, a young Australian lawyer based in Los Angeles, is called back to his family's farm, he has to contend not only with a philandering father and a sick...
Carrots and Jaffas A Novel
Carrots and Jaffas tells the story of two red-headed identical twins whose oneness is ruptured when one of them is kidnapped. Their startling intimacy is both a strengthand a fault...
The Night War
A castle, a bridge, and dangerous secrets- in this page-turning story, set in Nazi-occupied France, a 12 year-old Jewish girl must learn who to trust and how to find her...
Madame Bovary's Haberdashery
Zac, a translator of Flaubert, can't believe his luck. He ends up sleeping with Odette, a beautiful but capricious ceramic artist, and her best friend, Cicely, a talented knitter and...
Red Dirt Talking
It's build-up time in the north-western town of Ransom, just before the big wet, when people go off the rails. In the midst of a bitter custody battle, an eight...
Superfluous Men
A black comedy for a sunburned country, Superfluous Men treats early retirement and the literacy bureaucracy with the same sparkling wit, incisive analysis, and inside information that characterized Michael Wilding's...
Spiel
Berlin, New Years Eve. A young architect abandons the apocalyptic heat of a Melbourne summer for the streets his grandfather once walked. Barely off the train, a blind woman invites...
What Came Between
One street. Three couples. A world of possibilities. In 1989 the Newcastle earthquake opens up faultlines in the relationships of three couples who reside in adjoining terraces, changing their lives...
Mafia: The Necessary Reference to Organized Crime
$30.00 AUD
'Mafia' is more than just a history of organised crime. It's a vivid narrative into the way the Mafia was shaped by society and how, in turn, it has reshaped...
Paydirt
When Kate, a white Australian foster mother, takes her 18-year old Torres Strait Islander foster son back to Brisbane to meet his sick birth mother, Kate's own mother has a...
The Architecture of Fear
'Brilliant, inventive and marvellously written' ALBERTO MANGUEL A world without walls, without curtains, is not believable. Because there is no world without fears. Walls, curtains, are the architecture of fear....
WHEN I WERE A MEERKAT
When I Were A Meerkat is an extension of When I Were A Lad. Already it has generated spin-offs: When I Were A School Lad and When I Were A...
Football: Those Were the Days
An amusing step back in time to when football was a much simpler game In the good old days of association football there was no such thing as WAGs, the...
When I Were A Nipper...
The follow-up title to the soar-away success of WHEN I WERE A LAD (sales approaching 100,000 internationally) and WHEN I WERE A SCHOOL LAD..., WHEN I WERE A NIPPER... comes...
When I Were a School Lad...
A glorious romp though some of the most reckless photos from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s! Ah, the past. A time when children could roll in the street, when...
A Still Untitled, Not Quite Autobiography
$15.00 AUD
Actor Ron Moody has enthralled generations with his masterly performance as Fagin in both the stage and film versions of Oliver! - one of the great classics of British theatre...
The Complete Cockney Rabbit: The Ultimate Dick 'n' Harry of Rhyming
$10.00 AUD
George the Third may have been a great monarch but in this book, well, let's just say you wouldn't want him on your carpet. Stephen Fry may occupy a place...
All About Bond: Photographs by Terry O'Neill
The humour, the drama and the camaradarie, on set and off, is captured through the immortal lens of one of the world's most legendary photographers. Bond girls from Honor Blackman...
Born to Lead: Australian Test Cricket Captains
The book titled Born to Lead: Australian Test Cricket Captains by the author Max Howell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Eating Out Again and Other Stories
This is Natalie Scott's sequel to her first collection, 'Eating Out' which in 1997 won the National Library Australian Book award. Natalie is back with twenty more stories for readers...
A Thousand Nights at the Ritz And Other Stories
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This is a wonderful collection of short stories, sparkling with wit, passion and the Australian ethos, yet revealing the shadowy side of human interactions. These captivating stories take you into...
Kicking in Danger: A Damien Chubb Footy Mystery
The book titled Kicking in Danger: A Damien Chubb Footy Mystery by the author Alan Wearne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Ultimate Insult
The book titled Ultimate Insult by the author Maria Leach. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Sharkbait
Sydney Fish, PI, is doing a favour for a friend. Investigating the disappearance of a Kings Cross down-and-out seems safe enough but he doesn't bargain on aggro from the Huns,...
Dogfish
The book titled Dogfish by the author Susan Geason. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Ocean Road
In the summer of '76 Toby turns seventeen, his parents split up and his relationship with the adult world changes forever. Ocean Road is a quiet, profoundly moving study of...
Fresh Words and Deeds: The McCaughey Papers
'Davis McCaughey has become something of a legend in his own life time', says Peter Matheson, in his Preface to Fresh Words and Deeds,- as a scholar, teacher, preacher, as...
The Brits in Hollywood: Tales from the Hollywood Raj
Author, journalist, director, actor and broadcaster Sheridan Morley has spent his life working among the world's greatest stage and screen idols. In this extensively updated edition of his unique and...
Dictionary of Proverbs
The proverbs selected for this reference book, intended for anyone who delights in and studies words, all have a tale to tell. Etymologies go back to the earliest origins, though...
Concise Dictionary of Quotations
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The book titled Concise Dictionary of Quotations by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Asperger Syndrome Employment Workbook: An Employment Workbook for
This book is an excellent guide for human resource personnel who can tap unto pool of dedicated workers. Overall this is a good book for persons diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome...
The Sinatra Treasures
204 black-and-white and colour illustrations, 30 removable artifacts and a 60-minute CD. Created in conjunction with The Frank Sinatra Estate, The Sinatra Treasures tells the story of Sinatra's life with...
American Assassin: Volume 1
Now a major motion picture starring Dylan O'Brien ( Maze Runner ), Taylor Kitsch ( True Detective ) and Michael Keaton. Tensions in the Middle East are simmering when Central...
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
From Stephen R. Covey's eldest son come a revolutionary book, now in handy B-format, that will guide business leaders, public figures and their organizations towards unprecedented productivity and satisfaction. Trust,...
I Decided to Live as Me: How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others So
An Illustrated Checklist for How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others So You Can Learn to Love Yourself The million-copy Korean phenomenon on how to find the strength to be...
American Art
This work explores the emergence of the United States as a major force in the international art world during the twentieth century. This wonderful series (with over 14 titles produced)...
The Book of Firsts
Organised spread by spread, this book looks at the key moments in history when human endeavour has created a breakthrough. Every aspect of human invention is covered from science to...
The Great Book Of British Useless Info
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Which king ordered everyone to bed at 8pm? How many Pot Noodles are sold every second in Great Britain? How many streets must a London cabbie memorise in order to...
Stefan Gates on E Numbers
Stefan Gates on E Numbers is a myth-busting celebration of E s the additives and preservatives that make up Britain s most feared ingredients. Most of the food we eat...