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An award-winning joint volume of poetry, Sandy Jeffs invites the readers into the world of schizophrenia in Poems from the Madhouse, while Deborah Staines presents vivid images that evoke the...

In this eloquent collection, award-winning writers from the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia describe a personal encounter with the natural world that moved them, enhanced their understanding of...

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'Lady Macbeth called upon the heavens to 'unsex' her so that she might kill .' Barbara Creed 'Audrey Jacob stood perfectly upright, perfectly still, looking down at him, a smoking...

A mock epic poem in heroic couplets. Modelled on structures of classical epics such as Homer's LLiad, Virgil's Aeneid and Miltons Paradise Lost, yet set in the contemporary world of...

The book titled Yakkinn the Swamp Tortoise: Bk. 1: The Most Dangerous Year by the author Guundie Kuchling. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Shortlisted, National Book Council 'Banjo' Award 1996 Shortlisted, Fantasy Division and Horror Division, Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction 1995 'Mme Lecault met Mme Berry after twenty-seven nights...

The book titled Gold! by the author John Nicholson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a re-assessment of Australian cultural life. The collection features essays by many of Australia's leading cultural commentators on the pursuits and concerns that give meaning and significance to...

This book explores the background to the cataclysmic changes which have occurred in the former world communist systems. It applies the idea of civil society - a traditional concept of...

The book titled The Australian Mother Goose: Book II by the author Colin Thiele. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

What are the connections between law and literature? The judges, lawyers and scholars who contribute the 32 chapters in this volume range over subject matter as diverse as witches in...

Studs Terkel explores the ultimate human experience, that of death and the possibility of life afterward. Death is the one experience we all share but cannot know. In Will the...

'Well-served by his excellent translator, Gerald Turner, his beautifully constructed fictions are full of life and colour, of observation as affecting as it is precise, and of a robust sympathy...

From one of Estonia's most renowned writers: " [Joan Kross] begins to look more and more like a prime Nobel Prize contender." - "Kirkus Reviews" Jaan Kross spent eight years...

Best known for the explicit sensuality of his novels, D.H. Lawrence was also a prolific poet who took his inspiration from the major emotional crises of his life. This selection...

This study of the human race's weaknesses highlights some of the more unusual frailties - from witch-burning to inflating the price of tulips.

The Chinese have practised astrology for many thousands of years, having compiled a systematic method of observing and interpreting the heavens long before contact had been made with the Western...

The book titled The Red Web: MI6 and the KGB Master Coup by the author Tom Bower. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The quintessential guide to tea featuring all you need to know about tea from the ritual of making the perfect brew to the history of tea and the healing benefits...

Selected Poems draws on Jenny Joseph's first four collections of poetry, The Unlooked-for Season (1960), Rose in the Afternoon (1974), The Thinking Heart (1978) and Beyond Descartes (1983). The poems...

The book titled Hazardous Waste Management by the author Sonia P. Maltezou. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A stirring large-format celebration of cooling towers, the monumental brutalist structures dotted around Britain that are relics of twentieth-century industrial history - and are about to disappear for good. Bringing...

Doug Fanning lives an apparently gilded existence. A Gulf war veteran turned banker at the vast investment bank Union Atlantic, he is wealthy, handsome and powerful - the epitome of...

A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam...

'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this...

Volume V of A History of Persian Literature presents a broad survey of Persian prose: from biographical, historiographical, and didactic prose, to scientific manuals and works of popular prose fiction....

This is the first ever translation of a work by one of the most notorious figures of Renaissance Italy, followed by the fascinating account of Francesco Bibbone, Lorenzino's own murderer,...

A charming and witty volume of instruction for the aspiring lover, detailing hour by hour the correct way to spend a day apart. Iris is well aware of the hours...

This is the only available edition of a brilliant novel by the leading Restoration dramatist and author of The Way of the World. Masked balls, mistaken identity, and fanciful deceits...

New translation of one of the greatest works of German Literature. An ingenious 'whodunnit', The Marquise of O - subverts the eighteenth-century notion of the infallibility of man, and reveals...

An old man looks back on his life and remembers Elizabeth - the only woman he ever loved. The two of them had shared their childhood, shared their summer holidays,...

How slow is an ogre? How do you get rid of a dragon (if it's on your roof)? Would you go off with a fly-by-night? And who was the funniest...

This book traces the rise of extreme religious cults, and explores their ideals and beliefs, concentrating mainly on the twentieth century.

Sian, tired of nightmares in which she meets a grisly end, decides she needs to get out more, so she joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey. What she finds...

That man ever managed to develop a 'scientific' attitude to the natural world is one of the true wonders of human thought. And answering the question of where and how...

Following an introduction to the subject of collecting sci-fi and fantasy, the book is divided into the main types of collectible, such as comics and annuals, movie posters and ephemera....

Provides an insight into staircases found in homes, galleries, shops, hotels and offices across the world. Construction techniques, design features and impact of the project within its setting are explored...

A fascinating new take on the architecture of Adjaye, exploring his approach to five building materials through his projects David Adjaye is one of the most in-demand architects today, known...

Your expert guide to mastering the numbers behind the mysteries of modern mathematics. What with the mysteries of infinity and imaginary numbers, the power of mathematical modelling, and the logic...

This book dives into the shocking use of genealogy databases that led to DeAngelo's 2018 arrest, forever changing criminal investigations and bringing an end to a reign of terror. The...

Ivan Milat's killing spree through the Australian outback left a trail of terror and cemented his legacy as one of the most ruthless serial killers in history. Targeting young backpackers...