Non-Secondhand Books

In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to...

Twenty-nine-year-old Riki is sick of her dead-end job, of struggling to get by ever since she moved to Tokyo from the country. So when someone offers her the chance to...

Israel can't go on like this. 7 October and Israel's subsequent invasion of Gaza laid bare the cracks in its foundations. It was unveiled as a country unable to protect...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER March 2028: Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After victory in Ukraine, Putin's long-mooted encroachment...

Aristotle claimed that 'all human beings want to know'. Yet we also want not to know. Centuries after the Enlightenment, mesmerised crowds still follow preposterous prophets; irrational rumours trigger fanatical...

Can shame become a source of political strength? Faced with injustice, growing inequality and systemic violence, we cry out in shame. We feel ashamed of obscene wealth amid wider deprivation....

This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration. Highways tend to be built across the easy routes and flat places, or the landscape...

The international bestseller, now in paperback- a masterful, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has...

'The depravedly delicious foodie thriller you never knew you needed' - LEAH KONEN 'Deliciously dark and full of tasty twists' - LISA HALL'Forget five stars, this deserves a Michelin star'...

Mia is nineteen, too mentally ill and too often on drugs to keep a 'straight' job so she starts working at a massage parlour. She takes to sex work with...

Spanning fifty years in the history of modern Iran, this lush, layered story embraces politics and family, revolution and reconstruction, loss and love, as it recounts the colourful destinies of...

There are pop stars, and then there is Prince. In this kaleidoscopic, freewheeling biography, John McKie examines the remarkable life and career of one of the most mysterious figures in...

Working inside the world's first Nudge Unit, Owain Service and Rory Gallagher know the huge impact that small changes, based on a scientific understanding of human behaviour, can have, whether...

Welcome to online dating in the 2020s. Welcome to online dating in the 2020s. At 45, Quynh is a recently divorced single mum. She has only ever had sex with...

A collection of essays in the form of a daybook, written in real-time over a year. Calendar is about tuning in to the unexpected, playful and solemn lives of the...

A new graphic novel from the author of New York City Glow Holborn tube station 1977, a fish called 'Creasy' lives in the cistern of the men's room. He's a...

From legendary Australian feminist writer Barbara Hanrahan, Annie Magdalene is a quietly moving, funny and perfectly formed novel of a beautifully ordinary life. With a new introduction from Farrin Foster....

A tragic accident in paradise ... or a calculated crime? After her parents' death in a car crash two years ago, Eve is back in the tumbledown family house on...

"We can live the stories or hear about them later from others. I choose the former." Charlie Sheen should not be alive to tell these stories. But in The Book...

The SAS, THE COMMANDOS AND THE MAKING OF A VICTORIA CROSS 'The corporal made a decision that turned him into the most famous Australian soldier alive. It might have killed...

The perfect companion based on the SBS TV show Great Australian Road Trips . Hit the open road alongside four beloved personalities as they journey through the country's most iconic...

Saya Sakakibara triumphed over fear, self-doubt and family tragedy to become an Olympic champion. Her journey will inspire you to face your fears and unlock your greatest potential. Just go....

A richly imagined dark fantasy that pulses with the beautiful destruction of a town reclaimed by the natural world. 'An elegant cocktail of floodwater and gum trees and secrets that...

Thea lives under a mountain - one that's ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she has been called back during maternity leave and is coping -...

What would it take to turn you into a killer? Detective Sergeant Kiara Lui has just broken up a loud brawl between two blokes in front of the Warrigal Public...

What happens when overnight the Next Big Thing becomes a nobody? Twenty-six-year-old Evelyn is well on her way to becoming an international opera star. . . until one night, mid-performance,...

While the question 'why do birds sing?' might seem a simple one, the answer is complex! Throughout our history birdsong has influenced art, poetry and music. It can elevate our...

For celebrated journalist Tracey Lee Holmes, sport has been both a way of life and a lens through which to look at life itself. In this completely candid, wide-ranging and...

From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories. A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple...

Fascinating, candid and insightful, Quentin Bryce- The Authorised Biography tells the remarkable story of one of Australia's most impactful changemakers. When Quentin Bryce was sworn in as Australia's first female...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and Darling Girls comes the story of Mad Mabel. They called it murder. She called it justice. In 1959, at...

Sometimes people fall. It happens. Sometimes people are pushed. Sometimes people jump. And sometimes there's someone there to catch them. The summer Beth turns sixteen, she grows. She grows so...

Summer. Winter. Autumn. Spring. As the year unfolds, AFL footy season starts and the dreams of six teenagers play out on and off the field. Elias. Team player. Running keeps...

Mango and Hopscotch live in a beautiful tropical forest on the banks of a big river. Together, they munch on grass and lounge in the shade. One day, while the...

Can our interactions with wildlife help answer life's big questions? In (Be)wilder , acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones explores how people around the world interact with wildlife. He spends time...

In The Power of Choice , award-winning photographer Julian Kingma turns his camera on those who choose assisted dying, and those who help them on their final journey. These intimate...

How did Big Gambling become too big to fail and too powerful to adequately regulate? Australians lose around $32 billion on legal forms of gambling each year, the most of...

Henry Reynolds' ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down. When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to teach Australian history in the 1960s, he discovered...

AN AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY GREAT READ 'An Aussie crime fiction star in the making' Candice Fox Two couples - Annabelle and Luke, Des and Julianni - embark on a camping...

' It is a work preoccupied with love, truth and the cruelty of fate. This, by implication, is the kind of inquiry that can only be undertaken by storytellers and,...

The past is calling him home ... As a prospective barrister, Zaid Saban is on the cusp of achieving everything he has dreamed of. His social and professional world is...

'a clever, funny and propulsive satire that couldn't be better timed.' - The Guardian TRAILBLAZER. VISIONARY. ICON. CRIMINAL? In the sun-drenched chaos of 2010s Silicon Valley, a tech company's meteoric...

Three women. A baby rescued from the sea. Lives forever changed. When Sapphie, a passionate environmentalist, goes on a camping trip in the bush, she miraculously rescues a baby from...

When Phryne Fisher is invited to Bendigo to witness the investiture of her old friend Lionel, who is being made a Bishop, her expectations of the solemn and dignified ceremony...

You won't find 'terraglossia' on Google, or in a dictionary. It's a word coined by acclaimed academic and award-winning author Dr Debra Dank in response to the first Europeans' description...

Sweet, fragile poems about intimacy and separation 'In these sweet, fresh, fragile poems, Jensen demonstrates courage and skill at the arts of poetry and of love, and makes the sly...

The first history of childhood play and imagination in pre-war Australia This groundbreaking book is a history of the childhood imagination in Australia between 1890 and the outbreak of the...

Hi! I'm Shawn the Prawn, a 350 million-year-old tiny coral fossil that lives in the floor of the grand Marble Foyer at Australia's Parliament House. Sharing a house with a...