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Tim Reeves and Alan Roberts have carefully selected a diverse array of private and public dwellings from the first 100 years of Canberra. They reveal the social history and context...

World War 2 in the Asia-Pacific still casts many shadows. The shadows fall on the lives of Australian ex-POWs, soldiers and their families. Veterans are aged but recall horrors under...

Dearest Reader, Millions of posties have carried billions of letters across hundreds of years, and yet nobody has ever delivered a single word to describe a collection of them. But,...

This is the ultimate bible to Paris unknown. If you want to see Paris like it is in the movies, Nessy will show you the director's cut. If you seek...

Let's face it, there is only one Ponty. Pontypridd: birthplace of Tom Jones and the Welsh National Anthem, and home to what was once the most famous bridge in the...

Olivia returns home for her grandmother Sarah's funeral in 1984. Sarah was a loving matriarch in the village of Lindara. So why would someone spit at her coffin? In 1910...

What happens when you leave city life and move to five acres on a hunch, with a husband who's an aspiring alpaca-whisperer, and a feral cockerel for company? Can you...

Since its inception decades ago, the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons has offered an escape from the real world, the chance to enter distant realms, walk in new shoes,...

It's wrong in principle and it doesn't work in practice. (And no, it's not good for tourism.) It doesn't have to be this way. They say Britain should be proud...

Heartbreak and transformation in the beauty of a Ukrainian village For seven-year old Angela, happiness is exploring the lush countryside around her home in western Ukraine. Her wild imagination takes...

Muscles let you run, jump, play sport - or just sit still to read this book. Your bony skeleton holds you up and keeps everything in its place. Let the...

Slide down the layers of the Earth with the Stickmen, from the mountaintops to the grassy plains that teem with wildlife, and digging down through the crust to the super-hot...

Float with the Stickmen through all the layers of Earth's atmosphere and find out how the dark and distant edge of space gives way to our own troposphere - full...

When she moved from Scotland to America, Aefa Mulholland had never gone to a Highland Games, spoken Scottish Gaelic or played golf. Or worn a kilt or feather bonnet. Or...

'Charm, Belligerence & Perversity: The Incomplete Works of GBH'. showcases the ground-breaking work of the multi award-winning creative agency GBH. The story of this London-based team is one of diverse...

The history of architecture is a story of continual innovation, and yet at certain points within that story comes an architect whose vision completely defies convention. Mavericks: Breaking the Mould...

Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'. A generation on,...

Winner of the multi-authored book price, awarded by the Historians of British Art for 2020. As England's largest castle and premier royal residence, Windsor Castle is of outstanding importance: historically,...

Lindsay de Feliz walked away from an enviable lifestyle - marriage, successful career, expensive holidays, designer clothes, fast cars - to pursue her dream of being a SCUBA diving instructor....

It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chloe is preparing to...

Artist Simon Lewty is known for his large scale and intensely detailed works where the layering of text and image serve to create a dream-like reality. Narrative is rarely followed...

An easy-to-use comprehensive guide for writers on preparing and presenting their work to agents, publishers and print media. Regardless of the writer's level or ability, there is something extremely daunting...

Jerusalem is not an ordinary city and Crossing Jerusalem is not a standard telling of its story. At once a traditional travelogue, a questioning of spiritual values, and an examination...

Each year the magicians of Imardin gather together to purge the city streets of vagrants, urchins and miscreants. Masters of the disciplines of magic, they know that no one can...

Following a popular, if somewhat jaded, trend of Brits to pursue the good life in sunnier climes, Deborah Fletcher and her husband John eventually came to be the proud owners...

While visiting her father in hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla meets Harry, the first boy to understand her and her love of the outdoors. But Harry is ill, and as his health...

The first part of this book is a personal account of the process of restoring the cathedral after a devastating fire in November 2001, illustrated with color photographs. The second...

When Brian de Jongh's two classic Companion Guides, Southern Greece and Mainland Greece, were first published they were greeted with acclaim and immediately established themselves as essential guides. They have...

First published in 1979 and updated for the 1990s, this book offers a dynamic strategy for women to deal with the problems of stress, anxiety and depression. The author shows...

This book presents a recent lecture and seminar given by architect Rem Koolhaas at the Rice University School of Architecture. In this compact volume, Koolhaas addresses the urban and architectural...

The book titled Nostradamus: Predictions of World War III: Predictions of World War by the author Jack Manuelian. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Slang permeates Australian society-it can be found in pubs and RSLs, at footy matches and on TV soapies, in the hallowed halls of parliament, in schoolyards (often behind the dunnies),...

The book titled The Quick Brown Fox by the author Frank Devine. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled How the Stock Market Really Works: An Australian Sharebuyers Guide by the author Martin Roth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled Quest for Wonders: Myths and Legends in the Classroom: Myths and by the author John Tingay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The poems in this collection are an evocative documentation of the harrowing experiences of a child living in a hostile and unhappy home. The reader is shown the pain, the...

The book titled Rivers of Ireland: Flyfisher's Guide by the author Peter O'Reilly. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Bestselling hilarious memoir from New Zealand's most controversial media star. B> aul Henry is a natural-born story teller who spins a great yarn, and who says, 'I'll apologise for hurting...

After a men s room confrontation with his new boss right-hand man, Maori cop Tito Ihaka has been sent into exile. Out of the blue McGrail summons him back to...

The book titled Tides of Time by the author Zana Bell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Pauline O'Regan reflects on Pope John's 1979 visit to Phoenix Park, and moves on to tackle controversial issues affecting the Catholic Church today.

The book titled Model Country?: Economic Fundamentalism and Its Consequences in by the author Jane Kelsey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Her ex-boyfriend wants her back. Her former best friend is in town. When did Hannah's life become a K-drama? Hannah Cho had the next year all planned out - the...

'The giant just lifted the roof off, scooped up a pig and gobbled it down.' Chintu the giant's Only Brother will eat everything in the village unless Tashi can stop...

The human spine is not well suited for our way of life and as a result, backpain is pandemic. There is probably no one on earth who has not been...

Australia is a land of diversity and contains many World Heritage listed wilderness areas of extraordinary beauty. With an increasing awareness of environmental issues, there is an increased desire to...

This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutionary cypherpunk...