Second-hand Books

The search for answers bring the Elric brothers to the residence of renowned Alchemist, Shou Tucker - the 'Sewing-Life Alchemist' - famous for his experiment that produced a chimera that...

The Farming the City project began in November 2010 as an initiative of the Amsterdam-based organization CITIES, bringing city dwellers and urban farmers together to explore inspirational ways of producing,...

Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school and put to work in a teashop. As...

WINNER OF THE 2017 AXIOM BEST BUSINESS BOOK AWARD "Digital disruption" sounds like another business buzzword - until it happens to your company. Seemingly out of nowhere, startups and other...

This gritty, sweeping novel follows a burgeoning political activist in the early twentieth century: a "precious, priceless book" (Alice Walker). "We owe our world to women like Agnes Smedley, who...

The ability to use language (speak, read, write) is not something that children suddenly or automatically develop. It is a culmination of experiences with language that begin at birth. Sharing...

Almost a century after the Catastrophe, a group of survivors have built a new society deep in the safety of the underground network. Marri knows the rules are there to...

An affectionate satire, The Little Boat on Trusting Lane is a story of human connection and the potential of community and friendship to heal. Rashida Murphy, author of The Historian's...

Vikings were on mushrooms. Booze may have cost us Gallipoli. The Nazis loved meth, and the Stone Age was more like the 'stoned age'. We tend to see the past...

'We live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared . . . traditional authority is lapsing into brute force . . . and we ourselves must take...

The story is set in the city of Melbourne in the latter half of the 19th century, when it was growing rapidly, due to the gold flowing from Ballarat and...

Hop aboard for a desperate, deadly ride with Alan Carter, Amanda Curtin, Peter Docker, Deborah Robertson, Dave Warner and more. This is thrilling, jaw-clenching fiction from some of Australia's finest.

Francis Ormond was a Scottish born pastoralist, member of Parliament of Victoria, and great philanthropist in the areas of education and religion. He used his wealth to benefit others. As...

The southern hemisphere is mainly land. So said medieval Europeans, raised on a heady brew of folklore, biblical revelation and geographical theory. It is how they imagined it. So powerful...

The narrow stairway inside the mountain led to a door that opened into a huge marble plateau. Upon this stood a stone circle of nine of the largest hunks of...

FISH (fulfilment, inspiration, success, and happiness) is almost a side effect of running a successful Strengths-Based Practice - you don't pursue FISH, you experience it by getting lost in your...

Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World explores Antarctica as both a place and a canvas for imagination. This vast, dry continent drives much of our global weather, a litmus test...

Lillipilly Hill is the story of Harriet Wilmot and her family, who have come to live in an inherited house in the New South Wales town of Barley Creek at...

Love Is a Canoe is a smart, funny and romantic novel about the fragility of love and marriage. Peter Herman is something of a folk hero. Marriage Is a Canoe,...

With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change. In a bicoastal journey...

It is the time of Australia's harsh rogue-filled goldrush of the 1850s when Miss Penelope Worthington suddenly finds herself orphaned, isolated and alone. With a large sheep station to run...

What was Australia's role in the independence of East Timor? Over the years, successive Australian governments had worked to preserve Indonesian sovereignty over the territory and so it was surprising...

Dr Kaye tells the reader that its nver too late to take stock and build a life for yourself. A life that strives to achieve satisfaction on all domains; health,...

This book describes the origins and usage of words ranging from 'Anzac' to 'mulga', from 'kangaroo' to 'sool. In covering the terrain from Georgian convict slang to contemporary Australian idioms...

In this book you will meet the characters who roam our mythical landscape - the pioneers, adventurers and dreamers, and the stories they tell. This collection introduces some of our...

After Amon finds an injured bird in the desert outside Ledron, his whole world turns upside down. His mother is ill, and his knows his community does not have the...

Jools has an addiction to married men usually her boss which always ends in disaster. Before she can come to terms with being unemployed (yet again) she finds herself up...

Keeping secrets comes naturally to him ... but will it ruin his chance at love? Liam Castle knows the secrets of everyone in Bunyip Bay. As the owner of the...

In The Other Fact of Life, some of Australia's most dynamic women reveal their experience of menopause, alongside accessible up-to-date medical advice from the experts. The authors, physiologist Associate Professor...

The Diary of Victor McDonald, Sydney, 1932. Victor McDonald is cricket mad. He plays for his school team and his dream is to meet his cricketing hero, Don Bradman. But...

A useful guide for lovers distilled from the extensive professional experience of a sex and marital therapist. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, the book is packed with infomration on the...

If you are interested in unusual pets, this is just the book for you. Did you know that: ferrets can be house-trained, and taught to sit, stay and retrieve, just...

Two sisters. Two lovers. Too many secrets. Grace Rutherford is the one and only Diamond Sharp, the 'It' girl of 1920s London, whose weekly newspaper column delights readers with tales...

After being dumped, it's the authors decision to go ahead with the prepaid honeymoon trip, taking his younger brother that changes his life and their luck forever. They hit the...

"I think of chocolate and hamburgers. I think of a thousand dollars. A thousand dollars! All my debts paid off! Money in the bank! Pigging out!" When Danny Thompson gets...

'They should have called it Old Lost Land, not Newfoundland, but Old Lost Land.' So says Charlie Smallwood of the birthplace to which he had himself contributed thirteen children. 'Thirteen',...