The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
True crime writing at its finest, from the multi award-winning, bestselling author of In My Skin.Winner of the 2021 Walkley Book Award, 2022 NSW Premiers Literary Awards- Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, and 2022 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award (non-fiction).In July 2014, on a lonely road at twiligh ...Show more
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin
$38.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Women in the West
In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family ...Show more
Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox by Victoria Finlay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Part travelogue, part narrative history, Colour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poi ...Show more
The Great War by Les Carlyon
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Great War is Les Carlyon's extraordinary account of the Anzacs on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918. It combines a brilliant overview of this immense conflict with telling detail, stories, letters and diaries that breathe life into those terrible battles of 90 years ago. In The Great War, Carlyon ...Show more
Memory Code by Lynne Kelly
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
In the past, the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape, and the stars in the sky too. Yet most of us struggle to memorise more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines as the key, Lynne Kelly has identified the powe ...Show more
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work by Bernadette Brennan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Helen Garner is one of Australia's most important, and some would say, most admired living writers. That admiration is inspired by a sense that she is honest, authentic and fearless in the pursuit of her craft. But Garner also courts controversy, not least because she refuses to be constrained by the ru ...Show more
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$31.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: near fine
# 1 New York Times BestsellerLibraryReads PickSMLWhat is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? Today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. Now Neil deGrasse Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, within sp ...Show more
The Whole-Brain Child Workbook: Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activities to Nurture Developing Minds by Daniel J Siegel, M.D. (UCLA School of Medicine)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Based on their NY Times Best Selling book, The Whole-Brain Child, internationally acclaimed neuropsychiatrist Dan Siegel and brain-based parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson have created a workbook to apply Whole-Brain principles. The Whole-Brain Child Workbook has a unique, interactive approach that allo ...Show more
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned.Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This is ...Show more
Mah Jong Player's Companion
$22.99 AUD
Category: Dictionary | Series: Langaroo Press Mah Jong
The essential companion for the dedicated Mah Jong player who also enjoys the social aspect of the game. Since the arrival on the market of Patricia Thompson and Betty Maloney's two previous books, The Game of Mah Jong Illustrated and Improve Your Mah Jong, a wide range of hands from many parts of the ...Show more
I Am Malala (Teen Edition) by Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
A Life Underwater by Charlie Veron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Hailed by David Attenborough, proclaimed a second Charles Darwin, John 'Charlie' Veron almost didn't become a scientist. Disheartened at school, by chance he won a scholarship to a university where he could indulge his passion for the natural world. It was scuba diving that returned him to his childhood ...Show more