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From the bestselling award-winning author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this rollicking historical adventure that celebrates the art of whisky distilling, the defiant spirit of the Scottish Highlanders...

A vivid, romantic story of Sydney in the 1930s Depression - the heartbreak, the glamour, the dark underbelly, the struggle towards a better day - and one young woman's dream...

In the red heart of Queensland, two teenagers playing matchmaker are about to turn more than one life upside-down. Widower Sam Costello has no time for love. When he's not...

Seduced By The Heart Surgeon - Carol Marinelli As Head of PR for the elite Hollywood Hills Clinic, ex-socialite Freya Rothsberg knows image is everything . Yet her own facade...

Fighting to the Finish tells the story of the Australian Army in Vietnam during the peak years of the Australian military commitment to Vietnam War. As the ninth and final...

The Australians were the first INTERFET troops to arrive in the violence that was East Timor in September 1999. Greatly outnumbered by the Indonesians and the militia, they found a...

When Henni's stubborn old neighbour Willa insists on returning to her childhood home in the Netherlands for a wedding, Henni leaps at the chance to be her travelling companion. 'Lucky...

'I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent...

'Nourishment' is not a recipe book - it is not meant to invoke the deliciousness and over indulgence that most people devour. No, rather it is a book of potions...

Anpernirrentye (un-BURN-erin-ja) is the system of family relationships that is at the heart of the culture of the Arrernte people of Central Australia. This book describes the ways family and...

New Zealand is, by any criterion, a small nation. On the edge of one of the most rapidly changing regions of the world, New Zealand is having to redefine its...

'Owen and Roger's understanding of the various forms of evaluation is as insightful as it is useful. Program Evaluation is an engaging read; an evaluator's delight. I couldn't it put...

'Taut, moody and suspenseful, Maritime entices with all the strange, mysterious properties of a dream. Peter Mews makes his debut with such style, wit and maturity, it's hard to believe...

Call It Love: falling in.falling out of.and everything in between Finding love, losing it, imagining it, pushing it away, longing for it. Dyan Blacklock's stories for young adults explore intense...

10 Years of Fashion Photography is a portfolio of the best fashion images showcased in Harper's BAZAAR Australia during the past decade. The luxurious hard-cover coffee table book, published to...

'I have cancer, but it's not who I am.' - Julia Watson Mother of four girls Julia Watson thought her world was falling apart when she found out she had...

New editor is Robert Drewe, author of Grace , The Shark Net , Our Sunshine and Walking Ella . Past contributors include- J.M. Coetzee, Janette Turner Hospital, Tara June Winch,...

In the fourth Quarterly Essay of 2004, Raimond Gaita confronts essential questions about politics as it is practised today. What do politicians mean when they talk about 'trust'? Why is...

After three rejections for enlistment in the A.I.F., John Wyett became the first Australian Militia Officer to be trained at the prestigious Indian Army Command and Staff College at Quetta....

In the early 1960s, Betty Friedan made a plea for women to grow up, to become - in her terms - fully developed persons. In doing so she placed the...

A practical manual for beginners and experienced artists. Merope Mills combines the techniques of Bauernmalerei (traditional European decorative painting), folk art and her own designs to create a romanticized, country...

Irris Makler set out alone to cover a war in Afghanistan and found a much bigger story about the women behind enemy lines. This is as much their story as...

'I look back on my life and thank my stars that I have had the ocean. When things got rough at school I would just come down to the boathouse...

Any publication based on an Australian family law would be misleading if the law were considered stable over a ten year period. This new work takes into account the very...

The Australian Geographic Book of "The Corner Country" is a truly comprehensive guide to the outback borderland, where NSW, SA and Queensland meet. Townships and settlements of this legendary region,...

The creative writing courses at Adelaide University have now been in place for six years, and this is the third anthology to emerge from the Masters Degree course. Each year...

'Beautiful Lies' describes the forces that in less that four decades turned Australia from being dependent upon the United Kingdom to becoming an independent power, which, if it owes any...

A narrative of a young officer's fears and triumphs, of the discomforts and tragedies attendant on battle, the terrors and confusion in the midst of action against a fanatically tenacious...

A full history of the theory and practice of amphibious operations in the 20th century. The text takes the reader through a stage-by-stage account of amphibious tactical operations, and includes...

Begining with the artillery transport barges operated by Henry VIII's Board of Ordnance in the 16th century, for the past 500 years the British Army has been responsible for a...

Guido pioneered the radical unstructured styles made famous by his subjects - the likes of Kate Moss and Stella Tennant - reacting against slick salon styles, to enhance rather than...

This collection of oddities shows how Contract Bridge has played its part in embezzlement, murder, suicide, kidnapping, imprisonment and battle. The stories feature similar hands to those of bridge -...

The mystery of the light in Vermeer's famous painting illuminates a writer's love for his mother; a travelling lingerie salesman is helped miraculously by a rock musician as he waits...

A timeless love story that grew out of the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that...