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'Your Dreaming' by writer Guy Rundle and actor Max Gillies satirizing current Australian political scene. 'Prime Minister Howard' gathers together a crowd of Australian academics to express their views on...

A new perspective on a diabolical problem. Climate change is one of the most polarising issues of our time, but it doesn't have to be that way. In Why We...

Can Stress Heal? by Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper outlines a comprehensive, medically proven program to transform life’s pressures into health benefits, framing stress as a manageable tool rather than just...

frog guts, shark shock, snake fright, boys' farts, girls' germs, alien trouble, surfing the wheat, surviving the storm, finding spooky treasure. Startling stories from a bold new Adelaide writer.

British debut novel for a new Australian author, "Flying Lessons" is about the continuities and contradictions of family, through which Australian society, past and present, is evoked. Susan Johnson has...

This is a collection of pithy pronouncements - aphorisms, bon mots and maxims from literature, recorded speech, light verse, proverbs, epitaphs and many other sources from the Bible to the...

Many people who consider themselves to be on a spiritual path suffer from the popular misconception that they must lose their sense of self in order to achieve the greater,...

Vigor Mortis lobs a grenade at the idea that death is taboo. It reveals a new approach to death with a lively and provocative analysis of how and why death...

A beautifully crafted story of a Jewish family, reaching back five generations. Using births, deaths and family legends, here are stories of how people meet and fall in love, of...

Quite unlike her fair stepsisters, Lizzie is dark and secretive: 'Just like your father' says her mother. But what was her father like? Photos of him are hidden away; snatches...

This book explores provision for pupils personal development within the post-Dearing Curriculum. The editors take the reader through some of the important initiatives, with a particular focus on the work...

The text has been completely revised and updated to include new acquisitions and to take account of the latest scholarship from the Gallery. The new editions added to the back...

A worm's eye view of post-Communist Russia, from the Siberian-born author of Plasticine . A remote railway station in the 'Boundless Motherland'. Stranded there are a young spiv, selling overpriced...

An intense psychological drama set in a women's prison, in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them. Josie...

A play about the myth surrounding an old blues singer, from the author of The Libertine . 'Tonight I'm up on stage, Robert Johnson number. I'm singing it and it...

A road movie for the stage, following two young lads from Motherwell on their trip from dislocation to location. Alex and Brian are a pair of Scottish smalltown boys going...

An intimate and at times savagely funny psychological study of two sisters, one of who has made her home in East Berlin and one who has stayed on in their...

When Rhonwen discovers her husband is spending his early retirement playing bowls and conducting an affair, her response is coldly murderous. But the relief of retribution is replaced by a...

A provocative dual biography of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy offers an illuminating anecdotal study of a long and stormy marriage between two remarkable individuals and the impact of their complex...

'Oh, to be seventy again' - Georges Clemenceau Throw caution to the wind and laugh in the face of maturity as you soak up these capricious quips and quotes from...

'To be or not to be?' may be The Question, but it is not the only one. Hamlet, Part II, for example, answers a question about Hamlet that has plagued...

The last thing you need when you're on holiday is to become involved in a murder. For most people, that would easily qualify as the holiday from hell. For George...

Ian Buruma's grandparents, Bernard Schlesinger and Winifred Regensburg (Winnie & Bun), wrote to each other regularly over their sixty years together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bernard...

Can the US president really just disappear into thin air...? Helen Barclay, the first female of the United States, has been kidnapped on a state visit to Norway: it is...

Few others have determined our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation's modern history. His analysis,...

A thrilling play about the race to be the first woman in space. Renee Coburg is a gritty, glamorous aviator, the fastest, highest, bravest woman in the world. Jo Green...

1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life,...

Miyuki Woodward, lover of pints and instant food, has been taking a holiday to the same seaside town for eight years. She is made to feel at home, at least...

A damaged detective and a brutal serial killer collide in this nail-biting thriller debut. Detective Inspector Damen Brook thinks he's left his past behind him in London. But it seems...

Beware the Black Widow. To love her is to die... The spine-tingling thriller about a depraved female serial killer from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author. Jordan...

'Scott, it s Rebecca. I need you.' After years of silence, Texan lawyer Scott Fenney receives a devastating phonecall from his ex-wife. She has been accused of murdering her boyfriend,...

At nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. Small wonder, with a father who drives his Ford pick up with a Kodak movie camera...

When, despite all his training and twenty-five years experience as a private detective, Phil Kramer is shot dead on a quiet suburban south California street his wife and partners think...