Second-hand Books

What if we don't die? What if we are not alone in this world? What if life wasn't meant to be a struggle? And what if in fact love does...

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten, true story of one of the US's first female deputy sheriffs....

Type 1 diabetic & stroke survivor Barnaby Howarth was three-quarters through writing his autobiography in 2005 when he had a stroke and was placed on life support after being bashed...

In post-war Australia, William Dobell was a household name. But the most famous artist in the land was a broken man. His Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Joshua Smith was the...

Wherewithal has fallen When their beloved home comes under siege, the Wherewithal crew flee through the portal to the Realm of Fae. Behind the walls of the Faerie Market, they...

I'm just an average person who refused to let a diagnosis of an autoimmune disease define who I am or how I live. I've spent the last ten years extensively...

In 2018, seventeen-year-old Sunny and Toby are on the run after zombies have destroyed most of the adults in their world. Cut to 2034 when Sunny is being held in...

Have you ever gotten lost in a book? Entranced into the world of a mysterious old story of Alice Springs published a hundred years ago, Millie, a Warlpiri teenager, is...

Bestselling author Dr John Medina turns his expertise to the professional world, guiding the reader through what brain science and evolutionary biology have to say about topics ranging from office...

'He took up the book and opened the battered cover. It had swollen with age, humidity and use, the pages rippled together like seaweed in a current, like billowing grasses,...

Fourteen years ago Michael dazzled the world with Ephesus, a brilliant debut novel that him the respect of his peers, plenty of easy sex and the coveted Booker Prize. Since...

At seventeen, Jacklin Bates is all grown up. She's dropped out of school. She's living with her runaway sister, Trudy, and she's in secret, obsessive love with Luke, who doesn't...

For the past five years Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that...

A Lifetime on Clouds is funny, honest and sweetly told- a less ribald, Catholic Australian Portnoy's Complaint. Introduced by Andy Griffiths. Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of...

Winner: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult Fiction Shortlisted: Children's Book Council of Australia, Young Adult Fiction Shortlisted: Queensland Literary Awards, Young Adult Fiction Michael's older brother dies at the...

For many years it was assumed that poetry came from England. Research now clearly demonstrates, however, that a great many of the world's most famous poets were actually Australians. Possibly...

Caretta Rutledge thought she'd left her troubled family behind. But an unusual request from her mother just as her own life is spinning out of control has Cara heading back...

Why be poor when you could be rich? The men in this book have made millions upon millions of dollars. They all started with nothing. Get inside the minds of...

A black comedy that begins at a funeral. Max has a plan. A plan to help out his favourite uncle one last time. Even if Dad grounds him. Even if...

A moving and triumphant illustrated verse novel about the importance of friendship. "Toppling" is a fantastic new verse novel from Sally Murphy and a fitting partner title with her first...

A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple...

Must Eat , is the story of classic French bistro food made with love and all the best produce; it's the story of respect and admiration for top-quality growers and...

Your ordinary, average, suburban, extended, post-war immigrant Chinese family - steeped in tradition and old-fashioned family values. This is Lillie's story - their second daughter. Feisty, independent and unlike her...

Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams - you may spot him skipping across the hills, his bag of dreams by his side. Just the sight of...

In the heat of a British summer, Sidney Chisholm discovers the five bodies of his neighbours, the Gilhooley sisters. In a series of twists and turns, their mystery becomes the...

The tale of a young Humgone in the land of Kay Kin. A prophecy takes David on a journey far across the shores of Kay Kin to stragne lands and...

Veteran journalist and broadcaster Leigh Hatcher presents an absorbing range of stories, issues and insights from his national Sunday night radio talk program, Open House. Through his gentle yet searching...

p>br />Do you want to polish your personal skills and be more successful at whatever you do? If you want to get to the top in the business world, you...

If you're a sales professional who wants to succeed, you can benefit from these familiar words: Know thyself. Even more important, you should also know your customers. Sales guru Robin...

Abigail, visiting her parents in a lost corner of Australia, discovers a mystery and a conspiracy spanning a century and more. But there is more in the balance than simply...

Australia has had a long and proud tradition of political cartooning and Bill Leak, the daily editorial cartoonist for The Australian, is one of our most potent and exhilarating. This...

One of the biggest enemies of our general wellbeing is stress; and one of the biggest causes of stress is concern about money. This book provides a simple and practical...

When Paloma goes to visit her family in Trinidad, she doesn't feel that she fits in. But Tante Janet has a story to tell her: An ancient story of warrior...

This book, thanks to Ken's wife, Lady Dodd, gives the first ever in-depth account of his astonishing story, and unravels 'the other Ken Dodd' - the fascinating, kind and complicated...

I had spent too long feeling soulless. In fact, I had been so extremely distraught at my own disconnection, I felt I didn't know what was best for me -...

Perfect for coffee breaks, commutes or relaxing at home, this kriss kross book is guaranteed to provide you with hours of entertainment: . 300 new kriss kross puzzles . Huge...

The stage is set for a thrilling mystery! Gracie Fairshaw is delighted to get a sneak preview of the Children's Ballet's Christmas spectacular. But when the curtain rises, things go...

Meet Ivy Elisabeth Mann I know what you are thinking, but I'm not half faery, or demon, or angel or anything like that. Mum's a Body Shop consultant living in...

Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing'Reading this book might make you wish to set fire to your smartphone, but it might also make you wish to call...

"The future" plays a dominant role in everybody's lives. But for many, it is a blur and mystery, a wall of fog in which we struggle to see beyond what...

Plenty of people are intelligent and have the right qualifications. But in business, to be successful, you also have to be smart and creative. This book contains 60 pieces of...

More than ever, people crave new ideas, new ways of seeing and interpreting behaviour; of changing their companies and lives and of being more creative. Insight today has become an...

Compounded by the pandemic-induced economic recession, many companies find themselves operating in declining markets markets that have no real long-term prospects for growth, and where the demand for certain goods...