Second-hand Books

Lek Jaipong's family is surrounded by violence, much of it emanating from the background of human trafficking carried out across central Thailand. When she marries David, an Australian engineer from...

This is a beautifully descriptive story of growing up in Sudan as told from the perspective of an observant young girl. Told through the eyes of Farida, as well as...

In misty nineteenth-century Edinburgh a headstrong orphan girl is swept off to a hunting lodge and sacrificed to a mysterious figure - the lamplighter. Twenty years later four men -...

They told her that her body belonged to men and her mind didn't matter. They were wrong. "What if I don't want to marry?" Lillian held her breath. She had...

The raw, alluring beauty of the pearl and the stories of those who collected it form a fascinating part of Australia's national heritage. The Aboriginal trade and cultural significance of...

When you enter the world of disability with your child or anyone you care for, it can be a scary time of the unknown. Your idea of what life was...

Celeste Barden is about to face her biggest challenge yet. Celeste, Esme, Logan and Ferd are summoned to the Realm of Mountains to answer for the part they've played in...

After 50,000 years in a chemically induced sleep, Sarah and her fellow R.E.Generation volunteers awake to find a world devoid of human life. Climate change has wiped all mammalian life...

Doris Kozlowski's life is anything but normal. Her mum plays singing vegetables in TV commercials. Her little brother befriends pebbles and potatoes. And don't even get her started on her...

With a third of Australians born and around half with one parent born overseas, migration stories are a crucial part of our national experience. In her verse novel, Ask No...

The Wonder Within is a book that will help you navigate your way through the confusion, self-doubt and overwhelm that accompanies anxiety, stress and burnout. Dr Michelle Woolhouse takes you...

Famous bestselling author, loving husband, generous friend-Henry Hayden is a pleasant personto have around. Or so it seems. And when his mistress, who is also his editor, becomespregnant, his carefully...

When The Broken Sun, an ancient artefact said to lead to the lost city of Atlantis, is stolen from the British Museum, Jack, Scarlet and Mr Doyle embark on a...

'Mr Doyle,' Scarlet said. 'You have not explained what we are doing.' 'I thought you'd never ask. We are travelling to Colchester Prison.' 'Colchester Prison?' Jack caught Scarlet's eye. The...

He would relive for a long time everything she said to him in the room at the mission. He would recall the way her voice had grown thicker and thicker,...

Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her countrytown-and her three infant children-and try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is...

"He seems tostart writing a poem and then becomes shocked, stunned, by a word he's just putdown, unable to go past it, as if discovering the letters for the first...

When a senior Aboriginal war veteran dies horribly at the hands of state government authorities, Izzy, a journalist and daughter of a war veteran herself, flies to the goldfields of...

Introduced by Jack Thompson The Songs of a SentimentalBloke, a comic verse novel, wasfirst published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions...

The Home Girls is a collection of candid, witty stories about rural and suburban life. Set in the mid-twentieth century, these are tales of ordinary people and domestic life. Masters...

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...

After narrowly escaping Nazi terror, Rowland Sinclair and his companions land in London, believing they are safe. But they are wrong. A bizarre murder plunges the hapless Australians into a...

The six years John Burbidge spent in India as a community development worker changed him in many ways, but one stands out from all the rest. It led him to...

Funny, romantic, and action-packed, Rough Diamond introduces Australia's own Stephanie Plum - the unforgettable Erica Jewell. The shock ending to Erica Jewell's marriage left a huge hole in her bank...

Sixteen writers with a shared passion for military history combine their talents for storytelling in Legacies of War. There are tales of courage and triumph, destruction and waste, forgiveness and...

After a series of harrowing and life-changing cases in St Kilda-Head Shot & Blood Sunset-DS Rubens McCauley is burnt out and on the edge. Addicted to prescription medication, running away...

Keep your head down. Don't get noticed. Or else. I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers....

This is a story about a snow-covered island you won't find on any map. It's Minou's story. She's twelve. A year ago, the morning after the circus, her mama walked...

What do you do when you're a billionaire, you're thirteen and you've just discovered your family tree goes back a thousand years to a pact made by three brothers to...

Ghostlines centres on Philip Trudeau, a once-respected investigative journalist who has stepped on the wrong toes. With his personal life and health deteriorating around him, Philip is consigned to a...

Following the murder of a young, well-liked man in the small, peaceful community of Pedley, Tom Harrison's world is plunged into turmoil. Determined to protect his niece Brigit from Scorpio,...

In this inspiring meditation, Patrick S|skind considers the two great forces of human existence. He draws on scenes as varied as a young couple having oral sex while stuck in...

In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disaster for America. In The Sorrows of Empire, he explored the ways in which the growth...

In many respects, Australia behaves as if it were still a colonial dependency. Our policies on foreign affairs, trade, human rights, and the environment seem to be uncritically allied to...

Presents fresh insights into the public usage of words such as evil, terror, fear, war, leadership, accountability, compassion faith and trust and their manipulation for a variety of purposes. It...

Full of exquistite, yet easy-to-follow recipes inspired by Nadine Abensur's (former Food Director of Crank's, London) French-Moroccan background, as well as the delights she has discovered in her new home,...

Provides a rare insight into a world that most of us can only imagine. Identical twins offer a glimpse of human nature at its most wondrous, a reminder that we...

This work is the second in a three-volume series on the 1813 campaign; it is the first significant study on the 1813 campaign since Petre. Unlike the other English works...

Soldier Magazine's Book of the Month Fascinating... Incredibly dangerous. The Times Gripping. Adrenalin fuelled true-life account with all the makings of a military thriller. The action unfolds like a Le...

'A gripping story of love, death, art and deceit' -Sofka Zinovieff, author of Putney An internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her life to her work and to her...

David and Charlotte Bailey serve only nutritious wholefoods from their street-food van, Wholefood Heaven, as they tour the country and travel worldwide in search of recipes and inspiration for new...

Danny works at Belle Vue Zoo, where-alongside training the famous elephant Maharajah-he helps out with the day-to-day tasks of caring for the animals. But when animals start escaping, Danny is...

Elliot Hooper's troubles are far from over: his mum's health worsens, he's struggling at school, and a bunch of anarchic Greek immortals have moved into his home-including teen goddess Virgo,...

Griselda Kerr has drawn on over 20 years of gardening knowledge and experience to create the book that she wishes she had had access to when, as a complete beginner,...

KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her...

KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her...