Second-hand Books

Confidence is a skillset. It can be learned. If you think you weren't born with confidence, it's time for a reframe. Step beyond imposter syndrome, a crisis of self-belief or...

The poems in Circle Work are concerned with the everyday, the here-and-now, and how this can feed the imagination. Grounded in the physical immediacy and imagery of suburban space, these...

Isobel Callaghan is struggling to make a career as a writer in Sydney. She is isolated, poor and hungry, and fears she's going mad. Leaving her room in a boarding...

What if you might have committed a shocking act of violence? W hat if that act of violence was the murder of your own grandchild? It hasn't rained in Britain...

"Now then. Let's get started." Monster Man scrapes the chair a little further forward and settles himself. "I'm going to tell you a story. Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Then...

Alex wants change. Massive change. More radical than you could imagine. Her mother is not happy, in fact she's imploding. Her dad walked out. Alex has turned vegetarian, ditched one...

In this gorgeous story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie B Brown is making an amazing school project! In The Best Project , Billie loves her little brother but she...

In this gorgeous story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie B Brown has a a big story to tell! In The Little Lie , Billie has broken her arm! It's...

Bar owner Kevin Kowalski is used to women throwing their phone numbers at him, but lately he's more interested in finding a woman to settle down with. A woman like...

Apart from sharing the same postcode, Randi Howard, Anna Montano, Meredith Allen, Helena Whitworth and Crystal Howard have absolutely nothing in common- until a fiery explosion on a Texan oil...

In September 1971, 181 numbered marbles roll around in a barrel while Australia holds its breath. The last number drawn will shatter two women's lives, and bring them together again......

Everyone assumes Rosa Lee Altman lived a life without passion. But buried secrets are meant to be revealed The once beautiful Altman home sits empty: its gardens overgrown, its windows...

Son of an Irish father and a French mother, Maurice George O'Shea was a famous Australian winemaker. Educated in France, he was also a man of passion, a romantic. In...

In this gorgeous story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie B Brown's family gets a little bigger! In The Big Sister , Billie can't wait for the new baby to...

In this gorgeous story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie B Brown finds treasure on holiday! In The Secret Message , Billie's family is off to the beach! But when...

In this gorgeous story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie B Brown can't wait for Christmas! In The Perfect Present , Billie is bursting with excitement. It is Christmas tomorrow!...

In this gorgeous story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie B Brown goes to on an excursion! In The Extra-special Helper , Billie's class is off to the zoo! She...

In this gorgeous story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie B Brown learns how to be a good friend! In The Second-best Friend , Billie knows she has always been...

In this gorgeous story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie B Brown goes camping for the first time! In The Midnight Feast , Billie and Jack are camping in Jack's...

In this gorgeous story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie B Brown shows she's a soccer superstar! In The Soccer Star , Billie wants to play soccer, but the boys...

In this gorgeous story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie B Brown tries ballet! In The Bad Butterfly , Billie has started ballet classes. She is sure she'll be a...

'Comfort food stirs the emotions. It reminds you of people, places, a special moment, whether poignant or romantic.' Gary Mehigan, award-winning restaurateur and Masterchef Australia judge, writes from the heart...

This offers metaphors in an easy to use, uniquely organised dictionary. Think of a metaphor and Renton's Metaphors will explain its meaning and often its origin. Think of the idea,...

The Alexander Technique Workbook is a step-by-step guide that has sold over 100,000 copies. An accessible guide; this book instructs then explains the theory behind a series of simple but...

KILLER DRONES ATTACK! Terrifying drones controlled by artificial intelligence are destroying London . . . Genius scientist John Strider helped create the machines - and he's disappeared. Only one person...

This book is more than a novel. It's a testament to one of the most harrowing problems of our time. It's the story of one man's crusade to bring justice...

When a bomb goes off, K agrees to spy on the extremists held responsible. But at their school, what she discovers isn't black or white. And when she falls in...

Never run out of adventure ideas again! This book contains 100 generic Sci-Fi plots for you to use with your science fiction games. Each plot consists of a premise, three...

Part scientific history and part detective story, The Hockey Stick Illusion tells the extraordinary tale of the iconic global warming graph (created by the US climatologist Michael Mann), the global...

We all go back: to the house or town where we were raised, to an old friend or lover, to an idea or belief we abandoned long ago. But can...

Granta 106 will be a special issue devoted to fiction. Look out for the best short stories of the year, extracts from the most exciting forthcoming books and an exclusive...

'The Kamikaze Mind' is a new form of novel, a deranged form of dictionary, a poem for the open minded, the hyper textual and the restless unconventional thinker. It is...

In this autobiography, Ninette Dutton recounts growing up in conservative Adelaide before World War II, marrying and setting off for England and Europe, and finally establishing her metier.

Tempting In Texas He told himself he could never be what she needs. But maybe he's found the only role that really matters... As a kid, Hayes Dalton took a...

The Slow Burn - Caro Carson Out of the friend zone and into the fire! When firefighter Caden Sterling unexpectedly delivers Tana McKenna's baby by the side of the road,...

Things unravel so fast. One day Sam is a kid with a straightforward life, next moment he's sucked into a time warp and flung back a hundred years. Meeting Flea,...

A beautifully atmospheric mystery about family, politics and murder in an idyllic Sydney suburb. A beautifully atmospheric mystery about family, politics and murder in an idyllic Sydney suburb. Amanda Clarke...

Darcy means what he says. He just shouldn't say it aloud. Darcy can cope with parents, parties and punch-ups. He can handle his infatuation with the beautiful Audrey, spending quality...

In the fourth book of the utterly addictive Laws of Magic series, magical genius Aubrey Fitzwilliam is heading into the heart of enemy territory. It's lucky that he has his...

A sweeping rural saga through four generations of the Gordon family, from bestselling author Nicole Alexander, whose novels go right to the 'heart of Australian storytelling'. A sweeping rural saga...

'New parents would rather have a simple book about how to get the baby to sleep than an emerald tiara and a speedboat holiday in Jamaica. This is one such...

John Dedman was widely recognised in the 1940s and '50s as one of Labor's most accomplished ministers; he helped shape not only the war economy, but the domestic landscape of...

This authoritative history of Australian wine covers topics from the first vine planted to a recent prize-winning Hunter Valley chardonnay and the ramifications of the 1993 Federal Budget's proposed wine...