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Trust can't live in the same space as secrets and lies. Wren Murphy is seeking a fresh start when she returns to Blue Haven for university. But she's keeping more...

Rose Chan, "Queen of Striptease" at just 27 years old, enthralled men young and old in the heyday of cabaret in 1950s Malaya. Her accidental shot to fame, thanks to...

The bestselling author of he Yacaoubian Building and hicago turns his attention to current affairs in Egypt. In the novels and short stories of Alaa Al Aswany, characters struggle with...

To travelers, Egypt is a place of dreams: a country whose lifeblood is a mighty river, flowing from the heart of Africa. Along the fertile fringe of its banks an...

Most chess opening books are either too detailed or too shallow. Chess Opening Essentials has exactly the right balance and is an accessible primer and a reference book at the...

Explains the birth, evolution and death of phenomena, trends and groups of artists since the fifties.

A reissue of Lea Vergine's groundbreaking text on Body art. When it appeared in 1974 it was the first book to witness the birth and growth of one of the...

On the occasion of Doha being a cultural capital of the Middle East in 2010 and Istanbul being a cultural capital of Europe, Doha Orientalist museum is holding a symbolic...

In this diary, engineer and explorer of Egyptian antiquities Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823), recounts his life story that reads as compellingly as the best fiction. Beginning with his childhood in...

The book titled Album by the author Italo Calvino. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A publication to celebrate the monumental frieze created by William Kentridge on the banks of the river Tiber. Triumphs and Laments is not only a celebration of William Kentridge's monumental...

"Penrose", wrote Andre Breton, "est Surrealiste dans l'amitie" - and "The Friendly Surrealist" is an apt description for the man who more than any other nurtured the friendships and contacts...

This volume revisits the notions of Orientalism, Occidentalism and, to a certain extent, Reverse Orientalism/Occidentalism in the 21st century, adopting post-modern, constructionist and potentially non-essentialising approaches. The representations of the...

As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare's time, we work in a field that contains many significant losses: of texts, of contextual information, of other...

More tham 450 stunning photographes taken on expeditions to the South and North Poles with descriptions of the explorations and biographies of the men taking part.

The book titled Fauves and Fauvism by the author Jean Leymarie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

* #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD! A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette...

Leonard French (1928 - 2017), who created the great stained-glass ceiling at the National Gallery of Victoria, was widely regarded as the most public Australian artist of his day. By...

A young boy with 11 brothers; favourite of his father; chosen of God. Joseph, Rachel's son, lived a privileged life in Canaan until his jealous brothers sold him into slavery...

Fiction Favours the Facts - Book 3 Yet another collection of 22 Bible-based micro-tales. Some tell of little-known Bible characters, while others concentrate on an incident in the life of...

The leaders of the pitiful remnants of Judah's army reject God's command to stay in Judah. Afraid of Nebuchadnezzar and his hordes, they flee to Egypt, taking Jeremiah and Baruch...

Winner, Kiriyama Prize 2004 Winner, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2004 Winner, Best History Book, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2004 Dancing with Strangers is Inga Clendinnen's...

A self-portrait by one of Australia's greatest artists, a man mistakenly portrayed as a hermit. When he died in 1974 after a long period of self-imposed austerity and improvisation on...

How one woman helped shape the Australian art world. How one woman helped shape the Australian art world. Kiffy Rubbo was a dynamic and unique force in Australian art in...

No one had ever seen the dragon, but once a year it would send smoke and thunder down the mountain, and soon the rains would follow. Now the skies were...

Disillusioned chef and sustainable food advocate Lucy Ridge is sick of the barked orders, the long hours, the inappropriate comments in a male-dominated hospitality environment. It's ruining her love for...

It's 2024. For Helen, things are going sideways at best. She used to manage a cinema; now she works in a bottle shop. She's moved from her chaotic sharehouse to...

Written for his unborn daughter on a smallholding in Nazi Germany just before the war, Krank Fuss ('sick foot'), tells the story of one of a brood of chickens recently...

Abandoned by their Dutch partner after giving up their home and their job to follow him to the Netherlands, Seasonal finds themself single in a strange place for the first...

Exquisitely written and profoundly moving-the new literary novel from an award-winning Irish author. 'An exceptional, compulsive novel of love, loss and courage.' Sinead Gleeson 'Mary Costello is a writer of...

My mother's first memory was more rooted in emotion than in any particular event. If she had to describe it, it would be the colour of blood. Spanning a century...

**Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2026, Fiction Book Award** Before the Anthropocene, the air pulsed with birdsong. Now, a silence is falling. Ava spends her days at The Department, rebuilding lost...

When Audrey and Fraser tumble into a love story for the ages, theirs is an epic, unbreakable bond - until one tragic moment up-ends everything. Facing the unimaginable, wrestling with...

I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoona looked back at me, the wannabe hipster who dreamed of moving to a share...

Perhaps at the origin of all thinking about culture lies the question of the afterlife. The artist makes their work hoping that it will live on after their death. The...

What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years afterjust another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends,...

John Mateer's previous poetry book Southern Barbarians traced the influence of the Portuguese empire in the Indian Ocean - it was shortlisted for the PM's Award for Poetry and the...

On an ordinary morning, Maria Colson takes her baby son Dylan to the corner store. She only turns her back for a few seconds. When she looks again, she sees...

The history of the George Paton Gallery (1971-2008), established at The University of Melbourne, and administered by The Melbourne University Student Union, charts a very important period in contemporary art...

There are many issues raised when talking about Australia's literature. The main criterion for inclusion in these essays is not the canonical status of authors but their fruitful engagment ewith...

On a triangle of land that points out to sea at the mouth of the Swan River is Fremantle's heritage district, the West End, renowned for its colonial architecture. Although...

15 beautiful embroidery projects from the era of Jane Austen. Jane Austen was as skilful with a needle as she was with a pen. This unique book from Jennie Batchelor...

In The Thoughtful Gardener , Jinny Blom shares her insight into the creative process she has developed while designing more than 250 gardens around the world. Jinny believes that garden...