Non-Secondhand Books

Listen, I told myself, and heard the waves against the harbour-wall, a gull being peevish, the white tapping stick of a blind man against the stones. Listen, I told myself,...

While living in Central Australia Arthur Groom fell under the spell of our harsh and fascinating country, captivated by its limitless distances and unbelievable colour. Hermannsburg, the home of artist...

Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfection is the story of the small town of Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage-two people who seem the least...

I disapproved of bankers, on principle. Not that I knew any. Until this job, I had worked and made friends with people who shared my views. Mostly moral, mostly kind....

At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in New South Wales to enlist in the British Army. What he experiences...

Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of unilluminated directions. But when we know where we want to go...

Introduced by Michael McGirr 'The year I remember best from those days is 1929. This was the year I turned fourteen and went into the eighth grade; the year too...

Introduced by Brenda Niall This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of the lost classics of Australian literature. Martin Boyd is a deeply...

Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In...

The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aboriginal custodians of the continent....

First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim...

Introduced byPeter Goldsworthy Winner, Nobel Prize for Literature 2003 She pouts. I was expecting more of a story, she says. It is difficult to get into the swing when the...

I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother not to be pitied also who has...

How's your ebb tide? Do you sign on the dotted lion? Is your tea nature Orpheus Rocker? Who is Charlie Charm Puck in 'Waltzing Matilda'? There was never any book...

The classic thriller by the five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award The pain seemed to dissolve. Cold and rough tarmac against the face, chill wind down here at ground...

Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. 'Without some change,' he...

A wonderful novel by one of Australia's most loved and awarded writers, long out of print and now revived by the Text Classics series. Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary...

This is Albion Gidley Singer at the pen, a man with a weakness for a good fact. The first fact is always the hardest: you have to begin somewhere, and...

This is not a romance-I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither...

Who the hell's Nino Culotta. That's what you asked yourself when you first picked up this book, wasn't it? Well I'm Nino Culotta. My father baptised me Giovanni-John-well Giovannino is...

Introduced bySonya Hartnett Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956 Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen and thirty turns against his family and wants to escape from it....

From one of Australia's most-loved and prolific authors comes a funny and endearing tale about a boy called Eric and his dog Ugly. My Dog Gets a Job picks up...

One of our most-loved and prolific authors has written a beatifully told story that will resonate with pet lovers of all ages. My dog doesn't like me. It's a fact....

An enchanting story of friendship, acceptance and trust from one of Australia's favourite storytellers. Bill and Matty are neighbours. And best friends. Together they share their deepest, darkest secrets and...

Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris, and tramping the streets and living in hostels in London. Down...

An incredible, absorbing new collection of interviews on contemporary society from Noam Chomsky - 'the world's greatest public intellectual' Observer In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the...

In 21 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the...

Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! Join Bluey and all of her friends in this Giant Activity Pad with over 70 stickers! Full of colouring pages and fun...

Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! Have fun with Bluey and Bingo and their friends. There are loads of games to play, stickers to place and much more!...

Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! Colour in the grannies, a game of Featherwand, a trip to Rug Island and more in this fun-filled colouring book. Bluey is...

After the phenomenal success of Salad comes its long-awaited companion, More Salad , by the Two Raw Sisters. Margo and Rosa see the kitchen as a place to have fun...

It's time to embrace your full potential. Covering everything from your inner critic to perfectionism, self-sabotage and procrastination, soothing your nervous system to limiting beliefs to inner child work to...

Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his retirement is enforced....

'Zo Foster Blake is inca pable of writing a false sentence. Every crackling page presents a new bone-deep, funny, wise and utterly brave insight into love, family and the breathless...

'[An] entertaining and deeply informative crusade into the human obsession we call milk - and a vigorous argument for us to keep drinking it.' Dan Barber 'A rich dive into...

'Deeply thoughtful, unflinchingly honest and heartwarmingly original. Ben's unique creativity is clearly not limited to Attica.' Hamish Blake 'Powerful, vulnerable, intense, full of love and some darkness too.' Matty Matheson,...

Marcus Aurelius's timeless insights into human behaviour show that 2000 years on, not much has changed in the workplace and we could all do well if we focus on what...

Tom Walton is renowned for his low-fuss, max-flavour, family-friendly food. More Fish, More Veg is a collection of his go-to recipes that helps you put meals featuring sustainable seafood and...

What if your habits could create a more meaningful life for you and a better world? The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook is your guide to improving your home, health and...

'You'd be hard-pressed to find a more passionate baker than Anneka... Filled with marvellously diverse, indulgent yet reliable recipes and lots of useful tips, this book provides a great insight...

'Reynold's lifelong passion and imagination is the DNA in all of his food and this cookbook brings that passion into your kitchen. It has something for everyone.' Gordon Ramsay 'Reynold...

'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler . Perfect for fans...

Architect Carmine and translator Ivana were once lovers. Their child died and their relationship ended but now, decades on, both with marriages and children of their own, they are friends....

Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of...

'At long last she was playing the role she had alwaysdreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxious solicitude, preparing to confide her daughter into the handsof a young...

'So there is no one to whom I can speak the words thatmost need to be spoken, about the events which mostclosely concern our family and what has happened tous;...

Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books -...

In A Girl's Story , her latest book, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she...