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Rob Brooks
Explores a platter of topics, from the frivolous to the tragic falling in love, making music, our obsession with rock n roll, mating, fertility, obesity, consumption, and more illustrating how…
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Jane Gleeson-White
The rise and metamorphosis of double - entry bookkeeping is one of history’s best - kept secrets and most important untold tales … Through its logic we have let the…
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Frank Bowden
Frank Bowden, a specialist in the field of infectious disease and sexual health, looks at one bug at a time. Through Bowden’s own work in the field, we encounter Swine…
Paul Cleary
Shows that the resources boom, which seems like a blessing, has the potential to become a curse unless our governments take urgent action. This title maps out the pitfalls, considers…
Michael Wesley
For the first time in history, Australia will be uncomfortably close to the designs and demarches of competing great powers. Wesley points to the key economic and political issues that…
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Anna Funder,Anna Funder
An award-winning author delivers an affecting and beautifully evocative debut novel, set in 1930’s Europe and based on a true story, about a group of young German exiles who risk…
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Rhyll McMaster
These are poems that reflect many aspects of the human condition and the individual, from poems about love and death, the family, science, the natural world and historical figures such…
Peter Rose
Crimson Crop is Peter Roses fifth poetry collection and his first since 2005. This volume has at its core a series of elegies, several about his late father Bob Rose…
Bill Gammage
Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness, revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people.
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Pamela Rushby
The last great cavalry charge in history took place at Beersheba in the Sinai Desert in 1917. It was Australian soldiers and horses that took part in, and won, this…
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John Flanagan
John Flanagan, author of the international phenomenon Ranger’s Apprentice, creates a world of seafaring adventures, treacherous pirates and epic battles in Brotherband.
John Flanagan, author of the international phenomenon Ranger’s…
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Rodney Hall
Silence is an exquisite, poignant collection of ‘fictions’ by one of Australia’s finest writers.
Marion Halligan (Author)
Shooting the Fox is brimming with surprising characters - the virgin and the pornographer, the adulterer, the translator, the defecting diplomat - and the inconveniences of modernity. In the end…
John Kinsella
Offers a collection of stories that set in the Western Australian wheatbelt, a vast grain-growing area that ranges across the southwestern end of the immense Australian interior. This book introduces…
Neil Grant
A remarkable and gripping story about one refugee boy on a desperate journey from Afghanistan, and the Australian boy who befriends him.
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Judith Clarke
From multi-award-winning author Judith Clarke, this is a magnificent and deeply moving story about two girls, a life-long friendship, and the heart’s search for the real true thing. ‘A gentle…
Vikki Wakefield
Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go - anywhere but home, stuck in the suburbs with her mother who won’t get off the couch, and two…
Margo Lanagan
A mesmerising selkie novel from multi-award winning, internationally acclaimed Australian author, Margo Lanagan - one of the most exciting voices in speculative fiction.