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Defying Gravity: A Political Life
This political autobiography is a remarkable mix of the personal and the political as Dennis Altman writes his life. From growing up gay in Tasmania in the 1950's, to the...
The Best Australian Stories 2015
InThe Best Australian Stories2015, Amanda Lohrey, winner of the Patrick White Award and author of the acclaimed novelA Short History of Richard Kline, curates twenty pieces of exceptional short fiction....
Best Australian Essays 2014
In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing. In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing....
Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories
Personal, poignant, and meticulously precise, Holt's writing evokes Chekhov, Maugham, and William Carlos Williams. Internal Medicine is an account of what it means to be a doctor, to be mortal,...
In Translation
'I arrange some cushions on the rug and the professor lies across these as if trained. I kneel beside him, then straddle his buttocks, thinking I may as well be...
Being Whitefella
Sixteen 'whitefellas' explore their relationship with Aboriginal Australia, looking at events in their own lives which shaped their understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal culture and history. Each contributor has shown...
Successful Submission Writing: For Business and Non-Profit
Silly Galah
Janeen Brian uses clever verse to tell facts about Australian animals, accompanied by Cheryll Johns' bright, bold artwork.
Evil Weasel
Weasel is evil. His mean schemes and cunning tricks have made him richer than you can possibly imagine. But they have also upset his friends. So when Weasel throws a...
Katie Morag and the Dancing Class
This is the next brilliant adventure in the hugely successful series. Katie Morag has to go to ballet class. She has to wear a frilly frou-frou skirt and pink ballet...
Yoga: A Practical Introduction
A practical introduction, concentrating on the harmonizing benefits of Hatha Yoga - the yoga of physical exercise, this text provides a simple but completely illustrated system of physical, mental and...
The Curious Incident Of The WMD In Iraq
'Alistair said I should write something I would want to read myself. And I thought about that. I thought that this was GOOD ADVICE. Alistair is always full of GOOD...
Las Vegas Babylon: True Tales of Glitter, Glamour and Greed
What happens in Vegas doesn't necessarily stay in Vegas and the proof is in this lively and entertaining compilation of stories chronicling decades of decadence, celebrity shenanigans and political corruption,...
Reading the "Vampire Slayer": The New, Updated, Unofficial Guide to
The second edition of this guide has been rewritten and expanded to cover the sixth and seventh - and final - seasons of "Buffy" and the third and fourth seasons...
Feng Shui: A Practical Guide to Health, Wealth, and Happines
$12.00 AUD
Feng Shui is unlike other books on the subject because it offers practical answers and advice to specific questions and problems.
A Suitable Boy: v. 1
THIS IS THE STORY OF A GIRL'S SEARCH FOR THE MAN SHE WILL MARRY.SHE MUST CHOOSE FROM 3 SUITORS EITHER BY LOVE OR MATERNAL PERSUASION.THIS CORE IS WOVEN INTO A...
The Glass Lake
The MacMahons are the central characters and even more so when Helen the wife & mother disappears..everyone assumes that she has drowned in the lake.Thus beginsa tangles,touching,& sometimes tragis story...
Megatrends Asia: The Eight Asian Megatrends That are Changing the
Drawing on more than three decades of first-hand observations and interviews with politicians, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, Naisbitt identifies eight principal trends that are shaping Asia into a new network...
Embraced By The Light: What Happens When You Die?
First published in 1994 and now available in mas-market paperback, an account of the author's profound near-death experience, in which she recounts the people she met, the truths she learned...
Mammoth Book of Nostradamus and Other Prophets
Examining the various theories about how precog ition could work, this book discusses the nature of time, the possibility of contact with a spiritual world, the collective unconscious and the...
Sas With the Maquis: in Action With the French Resistance,
-- First-hand account of SAS operations in France 1944 -- Written immediately after the events took place -- First trade paperback edition (hardback first published 1994) In this exciting first-hand...
Solace of the Road
Memories of Mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life,...
Shine Shine Shine
Sunny Mann has done everything in her power to create a run-of the-mill life for herself in a quiet Virginian suburb. Her house is elegant, her friends are beautiful, and...
Little Cyclone
It was known as the Comet Line. It was the greatest escape route in the Resistance Movement and in its three years of life it saved over 800 airmen and...
Z is for Moose
Zebra is absolutely certain he'll be able to direct everyone to appear on the correct page, at the appropriate time, without any mishaps, unnecessary drama, or hurt feelings. It's an...
The Crowded Grave: The Dordogne Mysteries 4
Spanish separatists, angry activists and a mystery corpse: Bruno, chief of police has has his work cut out in the fourth in this internationally bestselling series. Life in the South...
I'll Be There
Emily believes in destiny. She's waiting for the moment her real life begins. Sam wishes he could escape. He's spent his life being dragged from place to place by his...
Pandora In The Congo
It is 1914. In the heart of the Belgian Congo, Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the jungle. He is the lone survivor of a mining expedition in which...
The Last Summer of the Water Strider
A captivating 1970s-set novel that is both a coming-of-age and an End-of-an-Age story: about love, the lure of idealism, innocence and decadence. Adam is seventeen, the only son of straitlaced,...
Disco for the Departed
$10.00 AUD
Dr Siri Paiboun may be in his seventy-third year, but he's still as sturdy as a jungle boar - and as crafty as one. Reluctant coroner to the Lao People's...
Bodies of Light
Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of Pre-Raphaelitism and the early suffrage movement. Ally (older sister...
Super Sad True Love Story
In a very near future a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud author of what may well be the world's...
The Insect Farm
Brothers Jonathan and Roger Maguire each have an obsession. For Jonathan, it is his beautiful and talented girlfriend Harriet. For Roger, it is the elaborate universe he has constructed in...
Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade and Triumph with the Hidden Power of
Stories have always had the power to move, but it has only recently become clear that purposeful stories - those created with a specific mission in mind - are essential...
"R.E.M." Inside Out: The Stories Behind Every Song
$70.00 AUD
Rising from the ranks of the early-80's indie scene, R.E.M. managed to combine worldwide commercial success without compromising their integrity. Along the way, the band has released an incredible string...
Cool as a Cucumber
A delightful story for young readers from former Children's Laureate and author of the international phenomenon War Horse . At first Peter isn't too keen on his teacher's plan to...
First Ascent
' What transformed pure physical delight into something deeper was the fact that no-one had been here before...' Discover the fascinating stories of the men and women who have scaled...
Katie In London
Katie has the best tour of London in town when a friendly lion shows her the sights! When Katie and her cousin Jack visit London with Grandma, they don't think...
The Cold Eye of Heaven
Farley is an elderly Irishman, frail in body but sharp as a tack. Waking in the middle of the night, he finds himself lying paralysed on the cold bathroom floor...