Second-hand Books

Children learn about how features of animals bodies allow them to move in a certain way. This early reader series features images from leading wildlife photographer, Steve Morenos, with two...

Children learn about how features of animals bodies allow them to move in a certain way. This early reader series features images from leading wildlife photographer, Steve Morenos, with two...

In 1841, fifteen-year-old Bridie Stewart and her family leave their grim existence in Covent Garden and travel to a prosperous new life in Port Phillip. Bridie's mother and stepfather expect...

When Meera Sen comes to the city of Melbourne to become a microbiologist, all she has with her are the traditional values of her culture and the idol of lord...

"One of Morrissey's best tales yet." Australian Women's Weekly In 1962 Cindy drops out of college to impulsively marry Australian grazier Murray Parnell, moving from the glamorous world of Palm...

Fantastic, ambitious, angry, mysterious: take a step inside the extraordinary worlds of twenty-five artists who have made an impact - and told a good story along the way. Explore a...

A beautifully illustrated collection of 12 action rhymes. Each rhyme is richly illustrated and designed to enhance children's literacy skills. Children will love singing and reading these rhymes and performing...

A groundbreaking study that reveals how decades of misleading science and policy unjustly demonized the high-fat diet, which might actually be our healthiest option. For the past 60 years we...

As a descendant of the first settlers in Hobart, Ruben's daughter is a guest at the bi-centennial event and reflects on her father's life and the historical journey of distant...

Melbourne , Australia, it is 1955. A four-year old child, Isla, is seated at a piano. She digs out her scrunched sheet music from her school bag, flattens it out...

The NG in Ningaloo is a fun Australian-themed phoneme story that teaches young readers about the vowel sound NG and where they can find it in different words. Beautifully illustrated...

It's footy season in Melbourne, and Helen Garner is following her grandson's under-16s team. She not only goes to every game (give or take), but to every training session too,...

Charlotte has always known she is different. Where other young women see their destiny in marriage and motherhood, the reclusive Charlotte wants only to work with her father in his...

Echidna puggles drumming,Cockatoo chicks eating cake, Green tree froglets tap dancing... What else might you see on a trip to the billabong? From the fabulous picture-book partnership behind By the...

JOHN HANNEBERY NEVER WANTED TO BE A HITMAN. He had no system for it. And, although a dark part of him took pleasure in hurting people, bad people, he had...

After his father dies, Benny Oh finds he can hear objects talking: teapots, marbles and sharpened pencils, babbling in anger or distress. His mother, struggling to support their household alone,...

TUNE INTO THE WISDOM OF YOUR MIND, BODY AND SOUL. In this hands-on guide to living well, Isabelle Cornish will inspire you to discover your true power within - by...

'I am reminded daily that health is wealth, so I feel like the richest person on earth. I want to help you feel this good ...' - Bridget Davis, Bridget's...

Glimpse is a high action, standalone young adult dystopian novel, from Text prize-winning fantasy author Jane Higgins. The city authorities have abandoned the D-Zone as damaged beyond repair. It's a...

MatchFit is the complete guide to getting your body and brain in the best possible shape for work, and for life. This inspiring book is the culmination of Andrew May's...

Late at night Lloyd Fitzherbert, police reporter with the Sydney Gazette, is picked up by his man in CIB for a 'last-minute job that won't take a minute' at the...

An idyllic Greek island. Obsessed demigods. A fallen nymph. A mortal boy. Merope, a beautiful but faded star nymph, is banished to Earth for displeasing the gods. She tries to...

New paperback edition of this rollicking fun adventure story. Farmer John's rusty old tractor lies locked in the shed. Rusty yet trusty and orangey-red. When the rain comes and the...

Craig Bellamy is no ordinary rugby league coach. He has a remarkable win-loss record in his ten years with Melbourne Storm, but when he led his team through a season...

Most can't touch the power, but Liv Warren is special. A paranormal tracker who follows the scent of blood, Liv makes her own rules and the most important one is...

Four years after his wife's unexplained suicide, true crime writer David Neff is still shattered, still disengaged from life. Then a friend tries to interest him in the unsolved murder...

Housewife Superstar is the life story of eccentric Tasmanian domestic goddess, Marjorie Bligh. Now 94 years old, Marjorie is the author of a library of advice books covering topics including...

Delve inside Alison Jay's marvellous touch-and-feel toy box, where things that spring, bounce and fly come to life beneath your fingertips.

Some secrets are best left buried... Knee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him and at least one person intent on his death-...

The lights are refusing to go out all over Stockholm. There's a mysterious problem in the power system. Every appliance in the city is going at full blast and the...

At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies...

Fifteen-year-old Sabiha has a lot to deal with- her mother's mental health issues, her interfering aunt, her mother's new boyfriend, her live-in grandfather and his chess buddy, not to mention...

Belinda Jeffery baked her first cake at the age of five or six, standing by her beloved mother's side. Ever since then, baking has been her passion. In Mix &...

The first beautiful set of 4 books in this series provides a fun way to teach kids about manners! Entitled (with a really cute play on words) DON'T FORGET YOUR...

A delightful book that explains to children the use of the words "excuse me." With engaging editorial, rich illustrations and parents' notes to help children understand the importance of remembering...

Miss Emily 'Fido' Faithfull is a woman ahead of her times, running her own printing press in Victorian London. She is distracted from her work by the sudden return of...

When I read back through my diaries or listen to Robin's stories, I come across completely unknown events, as if another person lived that time in my place. And still,...

A selection of children's favourite rhymes. Ages 2+.

When a grumbly Baby Bear refuses to give his father a good night kiss, their bedtime routine is transformed into a delightful game, as Daddy imagines all the different sorts...

From a small town with a big Gift, the Stawell Athletic Club has hosted many memorable sporting moments over the past 50 years.People travel from far and wide each Easter...

Being fourteen is hard but it's even harder when your parents uproot you from a cosy little country town to a huge urban high school.Already unsettled and anxious about the...

Wild & Woolley: A Publishing Memoir is Wilding's rollicking account of those heady bohemian years in the 1970s and 80s, charting the growth, the experiments, and the development of this...

First published in 1993, Sort of a Place Like Home is the award-winning study of life within the Moore River Native Settlement. Part of the bold social experiment by the...