Second-hand Books

Trap Landscape charts a course, trick-riding through poetic topography. From cubist paddocks approaching Paris, past council roadworks, and on to the terraced slopes of Hvar, Nicholas Powell surveys the sacred...

Do you ever get that feeling when you wake up in the morning, look out the window to see the sun is shining, and you just know that today is...

Queensland's Gold Coast swelters in record temperatures, and car salesman Gary Braswell is hot under the collar. With sales at rock-bottom, and up to his neck in debt to loan...

Short listed in the SANTA FE WRITERS PROJECT (SFWP) 2022 Literary Awards: Desperate for experience, and a chance to earn his stripes, 23 year old pilot, Will is forced to...

Where's My Memory? tells the story of Bernard the desert elephant who struggles during the midday heat. In their desperate need for water, his family are forced to walk on....

In collaboration with Jeferson Sadzinski and Thomas Mauer. Includes a gallery of pieces inspired by the world of this story by three Australian artists Laura Renfrew, Aisling King Macklin and...

This is a book that infuses the zest of jogging into the adventure of travel. A wonderful world full of vitality emerges in Terry Henderson's account of his jogging journeys...

Living in an Upside-Down World is the debut work of preeminent Australian rabbi and community leader Rabbi Ralph Genende. Drawn from Jewish thought and gathered over 20 years of writing...

I hear the Scrubfowl calling in the night, it sounds like warbley singing. 'They're courting', my mum tells me. I wonder what their court looks like? Are they king and...

TWO PEOPLE. TWO GLOBAL SUPERPOWERS. ONE DATE WITH DESTINY. ... set them on a collision course in a rapidly converging story, mix-in a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier on a week-long...

Jack Crawford was one of Australia's great sporting heroes of the 1930s,along with Donald Bradman, Hubert Opperman and Haydn Bunton- sportsmen who achieved success around the Great Depression and were...

Told through a series triptychs-each with a poem, a work of essayistic prose and a photographic image-White Clouds Blue Rain captures discrete moments of life with precise yet unpredictable detail....

This book is aimed at anyone with an interest in birds, words, or the history of Australian biology and birdwatching. It discusses common and scientific names of every Australian bird,...

The paintings of Australian birds in A Brush with Birds are by artists whose work is represented in the National Library of Australia. They span the years from first settlement...

`[Ann Oakley's] writings are witty and sharp; she is enormously well read, and...very versatile...[she] writes in a straightforward way.' Tribune In this impressive collection of essays and poems, Ann Oakley,...

This newly updated edition of America's favorite dictionary features revised biographical and geographical entries as well as up-to-date charts and tables for topics such as world currencies and chemical elements....

Learn just how versatile rice can be, with delicious recipes for salads, soups, wok dishes, paellas and risottos, as well as unusual desserts and sweet treats. Recipes are accompanied by...

Enjoy all the traditional, rustic flavours of Italian cooking through contemporary recipe ideas and variations that allow you to experience the taste of Italy without the high fat, salt and...

Fresh Moroccan is a healthy way to enjoy the delights of North African food. Encompassing all the delicious herbs and spices of North Africa, the recipes use less fat and...

Completely revised and updated with quick and easy access to over 85,000 words. Contains over 200 subjects containing alphabetically listed groups of words, ranging in length from three to 15...

In this action-packed illustrated series that bestselling author Sean Easley calls "brightly funny, deeply relatable, and full of digital heart," four kid gamers meet at a virtual tournament and battle...

Set in the same milieu as REVELATION SPACE, Alastair Reynolds takes the reader on another mind-bending ride through his wild universe. Tanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made...

FEVER PITCH, winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, stands as the definitive statement on the obsessive nature of football fandom. 'His triumph is that, without...

Meet the sisters who remember how they died and the little Indian girl who could walk through a town she had never been to before, except in a previous incarnation.This...

Maggie Millner's seductive debut is a novel-in-verse about a woman in her late twenties who leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from...

Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They told him that only 29.5% of the United...

Yes, you can, Cow! We believe in you! READY . . . STEADY . . . GO . . . It's the Nursery Rhyme's big performance, but Cow is having...

With an introduction by Victoria GlendinningThe third volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.A decrepit warship sails on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney Cove. It has been blown...

'In our time, Bernard Leach has done for pottery what Henry Moore has done for scuplture. This... infinitely rewarding book is an account of his pilgrimage through life.' Times Bernard...

The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon during his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discrete...

Writing apart from the mainstream of nineteenth-century poetry Emily Dickinson created a language of her own, and her work is both very varied and very consistent in its strength and...

Adding interest to the average city or suburban garden can be a challenge. Water features add a whole new dimension to even the smallest of gardens, but constructing them can...

This compelling and insightful book serves as a timely reminder of what needs to be done and what can be done to keep Planet Earth alive. Planet Earth is the...

As Sergeant Jim Bergerac on BBC TV, John Nettles has helped to make the island of Jersey familiar to over 14 million viewers. Here he offers a personal view of...

An edge-of-your-seat action adventure from the bestselling author of the MAZE RUNNER series, James Dashner. From James Dashner, the author of the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, comes...

Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley-on-the-Forest for his tenth action-packed year as village headmaster. It's 1986 and Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his tenth rollercoaster year as headteacher....

Jack Sheffield delights with the ups and downs of village life in another year at Ragley-on-the-Forest school As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an even more...

A witty debut novel about a housesitting gig gone terribly, hilariously wrong. A British copywriter stays for a week at his composer friend Oskar's elegant, ultramodern apartment in a glum...

Rooted in the extensive expertise she has developed since "Odd Girl Out" was first published as well as up-to-date research, Simmons offers a new chapter on technology, including a focus...