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A collection of Celtic stories, featuring characters such as: the roanes, half-dog, half-fish creatures that prey on hunters and fishermen; the formorians, monsters who disguise themselves as river sprites to...

Introducing a fresh and creative approach to kids' activity books! The KindKids series from Better Day Books combines adorable art, deluxe packaging, and positive messages with classic puzzle activities to...

In this modern age of technology and speed, what is taught in master crafter Nigel Armitage's renowned workshop follows a very traditional and timeless theme. Here, for the first time,...

Painting on silk, in its millennia-old traditional form and also in contemporary form, has become increasingly popular. With this guide, be inspired by the nearly 500 images, the visual demos,...

Manchester is proud of Alan Turing but does it deserve to be? Dr Jonathan Swinton explores the complexity of the city that Alan Turing encountered in 1948. He goes well...

Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend called Lucas who gets her through the school day. At home her father cries in secret in the bathroom...

Schoolies week: that strange in-between time when teenagers move from school into the adult world. It's a week when anything is possible, and everything can change. Grace is questioning everything...

How Australian Marcus Lee and his wife, Julie, survived wrongful imprisonment, house arrest and five years of trials and tribulations in Dubai. In 2006 Marcus Lee moved to Dubai with...

When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman the backlash from both Jimmie tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events. As Jimmie tries to survive between two cultures,...

Imprint. A fast-paced narrative of jealousy and death; of family feuding and an unrelenting round of pay-back killings. Yet it is also a love story in which two women risk...

The clearest, most accessible explanation yet of the amazing world of quantum mechanics. How can matter behave both like a particle and a wave? Does a particle exist before we...

A unique and lyrical verse novel for middle-grade readers that speaks to our childhood joy of collecting small, intriguing objects and creating connections in the most unlikely places. Since the...

Traces the progress and regress of the world's civilizations over the past thousand years and shows how the capacity of one people to influence another has shifted geographically.

Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle...

Sydney's leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties...

AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR 'In his treehouse, a wide-eyed boy lies awake, listening.' A picture book about boy sleeping in his tree house and hearing strange noises. A story about fear, discovery...

John wrote, refined and combined the essays and poems in this collection over several years, crafting into them his thoughts on consciousness, life, history, the universe, everything. They reflect his...

What lurks beneath the surface? In the bowels of a Sydney pub, the publican poses with his hand in chains: a reminder of the time when the underground store was...

Jaffa Cake junkie Lozzie Cracknell is a girl on the edge. She's been caught borrowing her sister Karen's stuff; her mum's possibly 'doing the do' with her worst teacher; and...

It was, without doubt, the white that reassured them. When a handsome blonde stranger interrupts a family holiday to introduce himself as an old school friend of their son, Philip,...

Cheryl Blackford's debut novel is set in England during World War II and told from the dual perspectives of ten-year-old Lizzie, a homesick girl evacuated from bomb-blitzed Hull to the...

The dramatic story of Hans and Margret Rey's escape from Paris during WWII In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began...

When is magic not magic? Laura is a girl who goes out of her way to find adventure. So when her family moves to a house with a well in...

Seventeen-year-old Arlo Santiago lives for the "Drone Zone"-that free, joyful, antigravity feeling. He achieves the Zone with risky motorcycle stunts on New Mexico roads, or while playing his favourite video...

When Jo Harper falls in love with a maverick archaeologist, Doug Marshall, she also falls into Doug's obsession with one of history's greatest mysteries of exploration: one hundred fifty years...

Times may change, but the dramas of existence don't. Nobel Minds attests to the power of literature to shape the world. Each year the Nobel Academy awards the Nobel Prize...

Global warming and the resulting climate change is one of the most serious environmental problems facing the world community. Global Warming: the Complete Briefing is the most comprehensive guide available...

Disillusioned with the United States after being expelled from medical school because of his race, Matthew Towns, a young African American man, moves to Berlin, Germany, where he meets and...

Step back into the roaring twenties with the iconic American retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co. This facsimile of the rare 1923 "Thrift Book of a Nation" catalog embraces the thrift...

Battle raged on the desert sands of the Great Depression. A land of tribal warriors, scattered and leaderless, was finally united under one mind, a man proclaimed as Husam al-Din,...

Stafford's advice to beginning poets has become a favorite text in writing programs

From the huge response to Lost for Words , it's clear that many of us share John's strong feelings about the use and misuse of the English language. Not because...

Set in Mississippi during the 1900s, Visible Spirits tells of two brothers, Leighton and Tandy Payne, and the haunting legacy of their tough planter father Sam. Leighton, the elder, sold...

An unlikely pair, seventeen-year-old Ming and twenty-four-year-old Yan meet and form an immediate bond. Ming, innocent and preoccupied, lives in her own world of books, music and imagination. Yan is,...

A collection of 20 unforgettable stories by well-known and emerging authors from Australia and the Indian subcontinent, including David Malouf, Salman Rushdie, Neelum Saran Gour, Tom Keneally, Rosie Scott, Jeremy...

A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Washington Post * The Cleveland Plain-Dealer * Rocky Mountain News In this brilliant, lively, and...

From the author of City of Women, a riveting new novel that asks the question, what if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust? In this unforgettable novel, David Gillham imagines Anne's...

The epic conclusion to the internationally bestselling Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series. The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he...

Horace (65-8 BC) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Horace's Odes and Epodes...

Virtually everyone supports religious liberty, and virtually everyone opposes discrimination. But how do we handle the hard questions that arise when exercises of religious liberty seem to discriminate unjustly? How...

Set in 1980s inner city Sydney, The Lucky Ones follows maverick teen Tom, as he tries to make sense of life after school. The novel reveals in poignant and hilarious...