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Professor Nicolas Peterson is a central figure in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia. This volume honours his anthropological body of work, his commitment to ethnographic fieldwork as a source of...

No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966-2016 celebrates the strength and diversity of contemporary art from Papua New Guinea, exploring works created from the mid 1960s, through Independence in...

Breaking up is hard but it happens - and it hurts. Whether you are the 'dumper' or the 'dumpee', losing an intimate relationship can be devastating. This book shows you...

This eclectic anthology of new stories showcases some of our finest short-story writers and proves that the short story is alive and well in Australia. From seasoned practitioners of the...

Mia and Sophie have been best friends forever - but that's all about to change. Experimenting with alcohol, flirting with boys, and dabbling in drugs, their lives quickly spiral out...

IVF and Ever After focuses on IVF treatment its effects on families and relationships and how to minimize the stress it causes. A groundbreaking work no other book deals with...

When a little girl decides to play dress-up, she and her grandma decide to dance their way around the house. Dancing with Grandma is an enchanting story full of warmth...

Around 15 per cent of couples in various Western countries suffer from infertility. Every year thousands try IVF and other assisted-reproduction techniques, but only about a third go home with...

A gentle, character rich and atmospheric novel about family, friendship and facing fears. Going on your mum's honeymoon trip, to your new step-dad's grandmother's house, isn't Jamie's idea of a...

Magic is murder when dying is part of the act Down-at-heel Glasgow conjurer William Wilson is booked for a string of cabaret shows in Berlin and hopes his luck is...

Ebi loves everything about boats. Ebi's dream is to build a boat and sail away. If only he could find someone who shares his passion. But all his attempts end...

Winner of the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize Winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction If she can just keep outta trouble, Mirii Mahoney...

My name is Rick, and I m a snake-a-holic. This book is a collection of amazing stories from one of the world s leading herpetologists, Rick Shine, who has spent...

A compelling, exuberant story of love, loss and survival, Hide & Seek is a startling debut that will make you cry and laugh out loud. 'The grown-ups held an inquiry...

An extraordinary account of the most remote and politically volatile areas of the former Soviet empire, the far east of Russia and the ruins left by command-economy communism and the...

This is an all-new visual celebration of the scenic splendour, cultural diversity, wildlife and architecture of South Africas most extraordinary and magnificent regions. Glossy, full-colour photographs are accompanied by detailed...

Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love kills... It's 1920 and Britain is trying to move on after World War 1. Clementine, who nursed on the front and suffered her own losses,...

Seventeen-year-old Amrey X has one fatal flaw. She can lie in a city forced to speak the truth. For 200 years, citizens of Axiom have been subjected to a truth...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 British Book Awards, Book of the Year Discover Award Longlisted for the 2022...

On Reflection: Moments, Flight and Nothing New attempts to grapple with the complexities of our present moment. Personal and imagined stories appear as fragments of everyday scenes forming a narrative...

A revelatory examination of Roger Fry's fascinating but relatively little-known writings on his first love, Italian art. Drawing on articles, lectures, and a wealth of new documentary material including letters,...

This easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 reptile species most commonly seen in Australia is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from Australia's top nature photographers are...

A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France's leading non-fiction writer On 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded...

Every year Elisabeth Danzinger - an unassuming yet resolute middle-aged woman - travels to the Danish island of Mn to spend one week at a lavish hotel called The Tamarisks,...

On an ordinary day, in an even more ordinary town, it was Albert's birthday. When Grandma Z roars into town on her motorcycle, Albert is swept up in a very...

Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Bouverie family and still owned...

Illustrated edition of the complete text captures the spirit of the Regency era.

Start with In The Garden - build an insect hotel for creepy crawlies, make fairy posies and create a wheelbarrow vegetable garden. Growing Fun has projects for plants that can...

"T he Man Who Loved Dogs , by Cuban author Leonardo Padura, is a stunning novel, chronicling the evisceration of the Communist dream and one of the most "ruthless, calculated...

Ellie is a young British medic on her first tour of Afghanistan. When her unit is ambushed, she sees a girl step into the crossfire. But instead of finding her...

"Gestern has an amazing way with words." - San Francisco Book Review "Will make readers want to open that old box of photos and look again." - Minneapolis Star Tribune...

So much passes us by, unnoticed. We multi-task, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully made object or stunning natural landscape?...

He tells you he loves you all the time. That he's going to get you out of the hostel, away from the drugs. He better not be lying to you.

There is no doubt: climate change is happening, and mankind is increasingly to blame. "Climate Change: The Point of No Return" provides a solid basis for the current discussion about...

When Dawn Annandale's marriage fell apart, she was overwhelmed by debt and turned to prostitution to support her family. After one year, a near-fatal car crash and numerous encounters with...

Leningrad in 1952 is a city recovering from war, where Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together. Summers at the dacha,...

Julia Johnson's lastest collaboration with the watercolourist Susan Keeble is a captivating story of a Bedouin boy, Hamad, and his Saluki hound Sougha (the Gifted One). It recounts their mutual...

A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in "So Help Me God." Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her...

'History follows a trail of sputtering desire, often calling upon the delusions of lovers to generate the sparks. If it weren't for us, the world would suffer from a dismal...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the outstanding entrepreneurial Victorian engineer. He helped construct the Thames Tunnel, build the Great Western Railway and its terminus, Paddington Station, but his boldest endeavours were...

There Where You Are Not illuminates Wittgenstein's life-long search for his vocation, for his place in the world. A biographical collage by Michael Nedo, a photographic sketch by Guy Moreton,...