Non-Secondhand Books

'Stunning, fresh, luscious!' Yotam Ottolenghi 'An exciting and enticing triumph. I predict every reader will head to the kitchen to start roasting, grilling, tossing and slicing vegetables, herbs and fruits....

Eighteen years and countless print runs since Neil Perry first published his philosophy on cooking, The Food I Love has stood the test of time as one of the most...

'I'm thrilled by this beautiful book. Cherie's recipes are bursting with flavour and creativity. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.' Maggie Beer Wherever she's lived around...

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...

Winner John Avery Award, 2023 Andre Simon Awards 'The best example of this kind of book ever written.' Wine Communicator Award judges 'Exhaustive and intoxicating.' Jill Dupleix, Good Weekend 'If...

Full of recipes sharing their love of bao as well as other Chinese dishes, the Bao Family cookbook symbolises the bridge between two cultures: the traditions of China and the...

Baker Bleu The Book is a cookbook of sorts. At least, it has 70-plus delicious, inventive recipes for anyone who wants to emulate the best bread and Roman-style sourdough pizza...

It can be easy to assume nothing much happens beyond the city, if that's all you've known. But that, of course, is far from the truth. Here, across six themed...

A collection of recipes for always. This is beloved food writer Tessa Kiros's definitive reflection on a lifetime of cooking and eating. With characteristic generosity of spirit, Tessa invites us...

'If you have ever wanted to get into making pasta this book is for you. I love it.' Brigitte Hafner, Tedesca Osteria 'A must own for any pasta aficionado you...

The Compost Coach is a colourful, comprehensive and accessible guide to creating the very best compost AKA garden gold. Kate is on a mission to empower readers to understand the...

How often has the phrase 'of Middle Eastern appearance' been employed to evoke fear and prejudice? This cookbook is here to challenge that. Chef Joseph Abboud's food looks Middle Eastern...

'Big-hearted, genuine, bubbly - a joyful celebration of life and community.' Tessa Kiros The easiest and best gatherings are when everyone pitches in. It's sanity-saving for the host, not to...

This is a love story between sugar and spice. Spice is often the party girl, the loud, bold, exuberant element in the mix. There is also another art, more subtle...

'By eating my food, you come into my family. You are sitting with me, with my grandparents, parents and cousins, talking, sharing and enjoying the feeling of being together.' Hamed...

'[Sumayya Usmani is] the go-to expert in Pakistani cuisine' - BBC Good Food Magazine 'Sumayya Usmani is a brilliant storyteller. She transports us with her delicious descriptions of the smells...

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...

In this vibrant and generous celebration of food, friendship and conviviality, photographer Aline Princet and Anto Cocagne, a young chef from Gabon, invite musicians, writers, artists and creatives from all...

'Generous, empowering and original - like having your own cheerleader in the kitchen.' Anna Jones 'This is the very book you need to teach you how to be inspired, confident...

Australia's number 1 bestselling pregnancy book 'Excellent and empowering . . . a must-read before conception.' Dr Lionel Steinberg, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist 'A book full of the wisdom of birth...

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...

From Tigray to the world, a love story through food. This is not your regular cookbook. The recipes are a legacy of Tekebash Gebre, my extraordinary mother. Tekebash was born...

James Beard Award 2023 winner for Best Visuals As immigrants with Chinese heritage who both moved to Australia as kids, Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu spent their formative years living...

'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...

Australia's no. 1 bee book! 'A wealth of knowledge! This book will help many keen bee enthusiasts to start their journey in beekeeping.' Mat Lumalasi, Rooftop Honey Bees need our...

'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...

Here are 100 ridiculously tasty recipes, created by Dan Hong, the chef behind award-winning Sydney restaurants Mr Wong, Ms G's and El Loco and rigorously taste-tested and chronicled by Melissa...

Sixteen years since the publication of Australian national treasure Neil Perry's groundbreaking bible for home cooks, The Food I Love , comes a bookend to that masterwork: Everything I Love...

'This warm and engaging cookbook shines a rare light on the fascinating food traditions of Tibet. Yeshi and Julie are brilliant at explaining how dishes such as momo dumplings and...

Perfect for fans of life-changing personal development manuals like The Resilience Project, The Happiness Project and When Life Is Not Peachy. 'This is the book everyone needs to read when...

"This book is about humanity. Life. Beauty. Family. The heart of the home. The kitchen and The mother; whom ever she may be. Passing on a legacy of a place...

The perfect pesto. The best bouillabaisse. The purest paella. A river of gold flows through western Italy, southern France and eastern Spain. It's the olive oil that links three great...

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;...

Anna, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in a small town in northern Italy, after a brief romance finds herself pregnant. To save her reputation, she marries an eccentric older family friend and...

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...

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attache to the...

Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in...

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: 'I shot him between the eyes.' As the tale - a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and...

'The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.' Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s....

A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile,...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in...

In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is girls, rock music and, to a much lesser extent, school. Told at...

It's a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six young losers committed only to drinking,...

When signs appear that a comet is heading towards their beloved Moominvalley, Moomin and his friend Sniff set sail to consult with the professors in the distant Lonely Mountains. Their...