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The Best Australian Essays 2009 presents a selection of the year's best non-fiction. With wonderful essays by Australia's finest writers, this diverse collection captures the year that was. Whether tackling...

When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks...

For two minutes she was dead. The assailant was vicious, the attack brutal - and it left her lifeless auntil her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year...

Having found the sort of man who only comes along once in a lifetime, Lucy Hatch is head over heels in love and lust. But just as the future seems...

Lang, Harpur and Deniehy were three of the most outspoken proponents of the Australian Republic in the mid-19th century. Their arguments - concise, powerful and balanced - are as relevant...

In this first illustrated book of the celebrated choreographer's life and work, extracts from personal journals and letters with photographs from his own collection reveal how some of the masterpieces...

Collecting books can be an exciting and surprisingly affordable pastime, but where do you start? This beautifully illustrated guide provides all the information you need, with advice on what to...

A selection of Kipling's best loved poetry illustrated by paintings of the 19th and 20th century.

Somebody in Laos is wooing and wedding country girls - and then killing them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. The horror of what this monster does to...

A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester. It's 1882 and the streets of Manchester...

Presents an anthology of poems that celebrate the joy and the rich experience of grandparent hood. This book includes such poems as "The Grandmother" and "In Grandmamma's Kitchen". It is...

This is the ideal gift for mothers of all ages, to be given by their children, family or friends. Here in this beautifully illustrated little anthology, split into thematic chapters...

When a severed arm is discovered by a couple on honeymoon in the Florida Keys, former police detective - now reluctant restaurant inspector - Andrew Yancy senses that something doesn't...

From the creator of Wreck This Journal (ONE MILLION copies sold to date worldwide), this is an eye-opening treasure hunt through the creative process... Welcome to the highly inspirational world...

Learn all about the life cycle of a butterfly! With colourful and engaging illustration and simple explanations split into two levels of reading ability, this is a fun and informative...

Eager young treasure hunters can search for the hundreds of hidden things in this bright, engaging seek-and-find book. The fun and colourful scenes include beach, jungle, farm, pirates, space, princesses...

On the gulf of Thailand, the Juree family are managing their run-down beach resort for the second year - still stalked by disaster. Daughter Jimm has a new love in...

Frank feels lonely when everyone walks away. Tilly, Paul and Milan are having fun. Frank cries tears into a pan and then adds sugar, and cooks and stirs for hours....

Caroline will tell the story of how she came to Tasmania, when it was still called Van Diemen's Land, many times. She will cast her inventions into the future. Those...

For most of her life, unconcernedly flat-chested author and academic Dr Lisa Portolan had never really thought about her breasts, or boobs in general. But then she met Amanda Goff...

A very hungry fox in search of food stumbles into one wrong fairytale after another trying to flee some very high-profile fairytale characters, eventually giving Henny Penny the fright of...

The Kindness Pact is happiness expert Domonique Bertolucci's answer to feeling good about who you are and the life you live. The Kindness Pact introduces us to the Eight Promises:...

The book that began the series that became the legend ... NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES "The best series for Australian teens of all time." The Age "Compulsively readable" New...

At the back of a yard, not yours and not ours Lived a bed-full of raggedy, half-dying flowers For it'd been more than three months and a quarter Since Mad...

Beautiful embossed illustrations and gently text explain how it feels to experience the feeling of kindness. Contains a parent's guide at the back of the book explaining ways to introduce...

This publication presents some of the highest artistic achievements in Chinese history. Drawing on the exceptional collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Heaven and earth in Chinese art:...

Winner of the Travel Media Awards 2021 Guide of the Year. Facing the Atlantic with its Spanish colonial core, wedding-cake mansions, Art-Deco towers and preserved-1950s hotels, Havana is utterly gorgeous....

A Brush with Birds celebrates the exquisite artworks and incredible life of one of the world's finest bird painters, Richard Weatherly OAM. A skilled falconer and artist, Richard has spent...

Profiles 23 gardeners from various backgrounds who are growing food in the backyards of the towns and cities they live in. These are innovative, environmental, working gardens that give their...

A debut swashbuckling fantasy following a powerful sorceress, the Marquese Enid d'Tancreville, as she is forced on the run where she meets a vast cast of characters including a young...

From award-winning author Jennifer Ward and Caldecott Honor illustrator Robin Page, this "real eye-opener" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) nonfiction picture book interweaves informative poems and prose to show the...

Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun, is one of the most popular and prophetic religious voices in the world today. In her many books and countless speeches, she has addressed the...

Winner of the Prix Renaudot, this literary novel about a murder straddles the line between the tragic and the absurd-- from the author of the plays "Art" and "God of...

As a busy teen star, Reed Alexander's life is a balancing act. Several years ago, as he juggled career commitments and school, he lost sight of how to eat right,...

In need of a bad day remedy? One girl's terrible day takes an unexpected-and extraordinary-turn when she comes upon a pair of magic socks. Blah. Nothing good ever happens to...

Serendipity and positive thinking come into play as a family searches for a missing puzzle piece in Bob Graham's enchanting story with a sweet surprise ending. "Oh, let's do it!"...