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When Ben Coates injures his leg and needs to rebuild his strength by walking, he finds himself presented with an exciting opportunity- to rediscover the city he has been working in for over a decade, at a slower pace. He devised ten walks, each demonstrating a different chapter of Amsterdam's his...

The Southern Frontier traces Australia's Antarctic obsession from its origins in the nineteenth century to the creation of the Australian Antarctic Territory and a permanent national Antarctic program in the 1930s and 1940s. It reconstructs Australian ideas, beliefs and anxieties about the Antarc...

The unbearable itch of chicken pox. The annoyance of sharing a Spotify account with your parents. The delight of smearing tomato sauce over everything you eat. The bright rainbow lights of the roller derby. The glorious sticky sweetness of fairy floss. The rebellion of the fake tattoo you know yo...

Australia's major river system is collapsing. Parts of it are dying; parts of it are already dead. Australia's most significant river no longer reaches the sea. I look out into the dim autumn light and wonder once again how it has come to this . . . Join award-winning author Chris Hammer on a jou...

How to be a good enough kid is the book children, parents and teachers have been waiting for. Alice Peel, co-founder of Grow Your Mind -- a ground-breaking wellbeing program that helps children develop resilience -- takes on the life skills and emotional dilemmas 'good enough' kids face every day...

"The young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life. Monitored by the nuns who run the college, eight of them form a close group, sharing confidences and hopes for the future. But each, too, has her private secrets - a child from an early love affair, frustrated artistic ambitio...

In 1987, sixteen-year-old Ione Skye landed the breakout role of Diane Court, the dream girl who inspires John Cusack's iconic boombox serenade in the hit Cameron Crowe film, Say Anything. While Skye seemed perfectly typecast as an aloof valedictorian, she was anything but. Deserted by her dad, th...

Long before Germaine Greer and Anne Summers, Australia's women writers were pouring their intense political beliefs into their work. Mary Gilmore was a trailblazing feminist journalist and labour movement organiser; Katharine Susannah Prichard wrote about the emotional conflicts inherent in Europ...

Star point guard Mack Morris's senior year of high school begins with twin cataclysms: the death of her father and the arrival of transfer student Liv Cooper. On the court, Mack and Liv discover an exhilarating, game-winning chemistry; off the court, they fall into an equally intoxicating more-th...

Forget "self-help" and embrace "shelf-help" by discovering the healing power of books and reading to inspire, comfort and fortify. In a hectic world that can feel uncertain and overwhelming, Daisy Buchanan offers the perfect antidote to all the noise, inviting us to discover the literary worlds t...

Working her way up at a storied Stockholm publisher, a young woman develops an ambiguous, shifting relationship with her boss, in this shrewd novel about the tension between tradition and modernity, and expectations and reality. The publishing house is anchored like a ship along Stockholm's main ...

"The ultimate art guide for kids! This amazing book introduces you to the wonderful world of watercolours, coloured pencils, markers and crayons. You'll learn all the basic techniques needed to create beautiful works of art on your own! This book has over 300 colour photos teaching you: * The bas...

"Nate Bargatze used to be a genius. That is, until the summer after seventh grade when he slipped, fell off a cliff, hit his head on a rock, and "my skull got, like, dented or something." Before this accident, he dreamed of being "an electric engineer, or a doctor that does brain stuff, or a math...

An explosive account of one of the most hubristic mistakes in American political history- Joe Biden's decision to run for re-election despite mounting evidence of his decline, and his team's increasingly desperate efforts to hide it. In Greek tragedy, the protagonist's effort to avoid his fate is...

"Nicole "Nic" Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she's just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she's been working since high school, a job she only has because her boss is a family friend and feels sorry f...

This book explores family history research, photograph dating, storage techniques for both physical and digital photographs, and photographic editing such as restoring and retouching. Peter King has operated a photography and copy restoration business in Melbourne since 1985. In that time, he has...

In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died in a final outburst of violence from the air. American planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final, terrible flourish to try t...

Molly Jong-Fast is the daughter of acclaimed writer Erica Jong. How to Lose Your Mother is Molly's delicious and despairing memoir about that intense mother-daughter relationship, a sometimes-chaotic upbringing with a fame-hungry parent, and how that can really mess you up. But with her mother's ...

A monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, activist, champion of Muslim women, and winner of India's highest literary honours. In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern In...

Discover the life of Roald Dahl, the groundbreaking author whose work is beloved by children all over the world. Little Roald grew up in the city of Cardiff in Wales. He loved to spend time reading with his family and visiting the local sweetshop for yummy chocolatey treats. But he found school d...

Discover 30 inspirational stories from women who have harnessed the power of self-discovery and experienced amazing adventures around the world alone. Packed with candid first-person accounts from brilliant women including a retired nomad, a keen cyclist, a circus artist, a woman celebrating sobr...

"It's Marty Moose's first day on the job as Postmouse. He's ironed his uniform, polished his buttons and waxed his whiskers; he's ready to go! But things take a tricky turn when he gets lost in Whisker Warren and needs rescuing by a doolally rabbit named Nibbles, and then gets caught in the cross...

Evil organisation Razor has triggered a final plan for world domination - and teen spies Swift and Hawk are the only people who can stop them. Razor instructs the Shiver to eliminate their enemies. Swift and Hawk must race to Berlin to track down the only tech that can stop these superhuman assas...

Fur, Tip and Nug are junkyard fairies. They are messy, bossy and never eat their vegetables. Having left their corner of the junkyard, the fairies and their friends sail down the junk river on the back of a turtle called Old in search of a new place to live. Join them as they navigate life on the...

You are the greatest detective in the land and you're facing your biggest mystery yet. After receiving an anonymous invitation, you discover that--along with all the other guests--you are locked inside the iron gates of an opulent mansion. Who has trapped you there, and why? You'll need to solve ...

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to...

An updated twist on the classic Under the Tuscan Sun, this is the deeply personal story of how fifty something Barbara Boyle leaves her busy and familiar life behind in San Francisco and begins taking apart a 300-year-old stone barn to build a new home-a new life-in the largely undiscovered regio...

"Durga is named after the Bengali goddess, pure of heart, filled with goodness. But the goddess has an alter-ego - fearless Kali, of fire and crackling with energy. The third of four children born to a middle-class Kolkata family, quiet Durga is surprisingly the first to leave the nest of her lov...

Are flying foxes really foxes? If not, what are they exactly? There are many strange myths about bats, but the truth is much more interesting. Find out about these misunderstood bats, and what their role in the forests really is.

The cassowary has a reputation for being the most dangerous bird in the world. Find out why and whether this reputation is deserved or not. Related to the emu and the little kiwi the cassowary manages to look beautiful scary and dangerous all at once.