Second-hand Books

My hoodie is freakishly oversized. It covers my body in a way that makes me feel comfortable. Safe. Invisible. Wren Martin isn't what you would call a popular girl. She...

Isaac McGlynn has it all and he's taking it with him.Isaac is cold, unfeeling, and wildly successful. After experiencing the loss of his mother and living his childhood in an...

Food can change your life in unexpected ways. It Starts With Food will show you how by outlining a clear, balanced, sustainable plan to change the way you eat forever...

Memo From the Story Department offers a battery of story-generating engines and story-improving tools, and reliable methods tested on hundreds of Hollywood productions. It goes far beyond the standard advice...

The Pacific Islands remain for most people a region of obscurity or puzzlement. The attention of news media is attracted by atypical events such as political violence that contradict the...

In this unpretentious, gracious and humble full-of-learning memoir Dr James Khong shares his experiences of years in medicine, his life and observations - and his suggestions for maintaining good health...

How can you feel anchored when you have no place to call your own? Australia has a large shadow population of people who experience homelessness - whether couch-surfing, staying in...

As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered a book that would change his life forever. Now a grown man, he is just one step away from solving the mystery of his...

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...

'A tantalising mix of mystery and romance - Anna Romer weaves together the past and the present with a deft hand, creating a compelling page-turner.' Kate Forsyth A haunting story...

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...

In 1960, when the legendary icebreaker Magga Dan set sail for Antarctica, it contained a secret. Hiding on board was Nel Law, wife of expedition leader Phillip Law. She would...

Age range 11+ Borderlands - Riding the Slipstream is an anthology for readers young and old. Featuring over forty short stories and poems by some of Australia's best-loved authors -...

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...

In this gripping finale to Christelle Dabos's bestselling Mirror Visitor quartet, Ophelia and Thorn finally uncover the truth that might help them solve the chaos in their universe of the...

Global warming, plastic pollution, deforestation, species loss and rising inequality got you down? Then take your very valid concerns and channel them into action with this proactive guide to saving...

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...

Age range 6 to 9 There are as many mistruths as there are truths about James Co ok and his famous first Voyage of discovery, including his secret orders to...

AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR One Step ... two step ... three step ... four! A delightful Collection of poems which explores the inner world of babies. AUTHOR: Michael Wagner is a children's...

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...

Gwen Pascoe's 'Long views and short vistas': Victoria's nineteenth-century public botanic gardens explores the story of botanic gardens established in Melbourne and other Victorian towns in the second half of...

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...

Recipes from My Mother's Kitchen is a place to record and store your mother's special recipes. This book will ensure that the food you smelled and tasted in your mother's...

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....

In Dan Liebke's debut cricket book, The Instant Cricket Library, you'll find excerpts from a number of remarkable cricket books, none of which you've ever read before-because none of them...

Dr Bridie O'Donnell is the defi nition of a unique Australian sporting hero. A medical doctor who spent her 20s pursuing sideline sporting careers in rowing and Ironman triathlon, it...

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...