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World War II. 1945. A group of nurses is handpicked to rescue injured soldiers from the frontline in Papua New Guinea, and transport them safely back home to Australia. Known...

Sometimes, the past can haunt you... Eighteen years ago, FBI profiler Evelyn Baine's best friend, Cassie Byers, disappeared, the third in a series of unsolved abductions. Only a macabre nursery...

The relationship between Australia and the royal family is complex and fascinating. We are drawn to the pure magic of palaces, celebrity romance and high-fashion, but it goes deeper. This...

Pete Evans has had a life long love affair with pizza. His mother would make them from scratch for him and his friends - dialling a delivery service was never...

This is the story of how Don Burke built his dream, transforming a bush block with virtually no soil - a barren rocky hillside in a dry rainshadow area -...

There are three things that all respectable dragons need: strong wings for flying. Strong lungs for breathing fire. And strong, shiny scales ... But Bluey the Dragon has none of...

A beautifully crafted food series based on the most iconic book on Asian cuisine. The Complete Asian Cookbook series is based on Charmaine Solomon's groundbreaking work into the diverse, amazing...

"This beautifully crafted, lively novel captures the good and the bad of female friendship" Bec Kavanagh Books + Publishing, 5 stars. WINNER OF THE CBCA AWARD FOR BOOK OF THE...

The Australian Women's Weekly Test Kitchen has been developing and triple-testing recipes for decades. This is a superb collection of over 100 hundred recipes from the not-too-distant past, that have...

Bee is in her element working in the taxidermy department at the Museum of Natural History, but her summer job turns out to be full of surprises: A dead body...

'You always forget this part, that life regenerates itself underground through the winter, that happiness comes back. You forget that your body has the capacity for joy, that it craves...

The Little Black Book of Business Writing is for everyone who writes for business purposes, in the commercial world, the private sector, the trades and the professions. Mark Tredinnick and...

Left and right are all around us. From our hands and feet to our eyes and ears, the notion of left and right is inescapable. Left and right control how...

Gabrielle has no memory. No family. No past. All Gabrielle has is a Voice in her head that tells her she is not like anyone else. It tells her not...

For great tastes every time, this series is packed with stylish cooking options to cater for today's busy lifestyles. Created for cooks of all skill levels, each book comprises more...

Want to be the hostess with the mostest? Acclaimed London-based American food writer and stylist Jennifer Joyce will show you how. Drawing on her many years of successful soirees and...

Each book includes Notes for Parents in which a child psychologist offers some helpful insights.

'If being a published author is your goal, then you have to work at it. You have to keep at it and you have to be disciplined.' - Alexis Fleming...

Winner of the Australian /Vogel's Literary Award 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Tolstoy wasn't thinking specifically of the Harrison family when...

Laurence Augustine Rainbow is born into an ordinary family, and seems set for an ordinary life. But as the world changes around him, so does the happiness of his own...

How this crisis came to be, and the story of the individuals and organizations involved, is a tale full of hubris, pathos, integrity and deception in the end, human foibles...

A book for our times, sharing stories of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the generosity of a man who understood hardship. A book for our times, sharing stories...

Thousands of women, aged 19 to 70, have shared their most intimate and emotional sexual stories. Thousands of women, aged 19 to 70, have shared their most intimate and sexual...

Get prepared to have your life changed. Every Last Crumb will take you down a revolutionary bread-making road with recipes that look, smell, and taste like their gluten-filled counterparts. These...

A Concours d'Elegance - which is "competition of elegance" in the original French - is a lavish event where those in the know gather to feast their eyes on and...

In this technically versatile tome, photographer Uli Weber shows his prowess behind the lens, mixing fine portraiture and reportage with animal and sport images in a wide spectrum of fine...

From roaring nightlife to peaceful yoga retreats, Ibiza's hippie-chic atmosphere is its hallmark. This quintessential Mediterranean hot spot has served as an escape for artists, creatives, and musicians alike for...

Frida Kahlo was not only an iconic artist, she was also a bold beauty and an avant-garde fashionista whose timeless sense of style continues to inspire and influence the worlds...

Lauded by Homer and Pindar, Pliny and Plutarch, the ancient Greek site of Delphi was revered for centuries as the "navel of the earth." Seekers came from all over Greece...

"The only Italian Elizabeth knows is Bulgari." Richard Burton Since the 1940s, the serpent has been one of Bulgari's most emblematic symbols. Representing birth, rebirth, beauty, sex appeal, and wisdom...

"Intellectuals often underestimate books like this. Mr. Clark isn't a thumb-sucking pundit: He is an extremely ambitious, sharp-elbowed man who has a passionately felt vision for the American future that...

One of the most important works on Abraham Lincoln from the era when he was passing out of living memory and into history, this 1917 classic is a rich, evocative...

"A beautiful catalogue of 80 plants, revered by indigenous people for their nourishing, healing, and symbolic properties." Gardens Illustrated The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same...

The cake known as the Paris-Brest was invented in 1910 by a baker in the city of Maisons-Laffitte, who watched the Paris-Brest bicycle race fly past his window. Fascinated by...

The Civil War is most often described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was also one in which women...

The classic million copy bestseller, now revised and updated.. Here is the most up-to-date and complete information about pregnancy, presented in a unique week-by-week format. A new edition of a...

Time and again, writers are asked the same questions about their favourite books: What are they? What's the book you wish you had written? What's the book that changed your...

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful...

Originally published in 1926, it was the author's belief that the constitutional developments of the civil war had far reaching significance and that they deserved a fuller treatment than they...

The third in a series of five titles, which will cover each year of the war graphically. Many thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the...

General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and...