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Author: Ramona Koval

In The Best Australian Essays 2012, Ramona Koval puts together a wide-ranging collection of the year's most thought-provoking non-fiction pieces. Some are life-altering and full of insight, some dazzle and challenge, but ...

Author: Marie Toms

In Marie (Broadway) Toms second family heritage book Broadway Generations, she brings a spirit of celebration and honor to the family. She traces the footprints of early Arkansan settler Grandpa Oliver back two more step ...

Author: Cate Kennedy

In The Best Australian Stories 2011, Cate Kennedy selects the year's most outstanding short fiction. Featuring much loved masters as well as exciting new voices, this book is a perfect introduction to Australia's best co ...

Author: Michele Rubatino

The fantasyland of Oz continues to fascinate steadfast Oz fans. They sympathize with the tin woodsman in his need for a heart, the cowardly lion in his need for courage, and with Dorothy as she searches for a way to retu ...

Author: Eduardo Halfon

"Elegant" --"Marie Claire"

"Funny and revelatory." --"New York Times Book Review"

"Deeply accessible, deeply moving." --"Los Angeles Times"

"The Polish Boxer" covers a vast landscape of human experience while en ...

Author: Samuel White Baker

Title: The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources ... With maps, illustrations, and portraits.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the nationa ...

Author: Michaela McGuire & Marieke Hardy

Women of Letters, a series of events curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire, was designed in part to revive the lost art of letter writing and in part to highlight a diverse range of female talent. The events rais ...

Author: Paul Keating

Books of speeches are rarely published as a compendium of work by one person. After Words is unique in Australian publishing by virtue of its scale and range of subjects, and that all the speeches are the work of one eye ...

Author: Scott Hilburn

The Argyle Sweater has sold nearly 1 million greeting cards through American Greetings, and more than 100,000 2011 calendars.

With more than one million greeting cards sold, Scott Hilburn's "The Argyle Sweater" dresses ...

Author: Samuel White Baker

Title: The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources ... With maps, illustrations, and portraits.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the nationa ...

Author: Anthony Arnove

"The idea was simple - take the most impassioned speeches about the fight for what is right and bring them to life for a new generation". (Colin Firth). The People Speak tells the story of Britain through the voices of t ...

Author: Gordon Leidner

Packed with insightful and inspiring quotes from and about Abraham Lincoln - one of the world's most celebrated statesmen. More than 140 years after his death, Abraham Lincoln is still considered one of the greatest Pres ...

Author: John Freeman

Packed with almost 200 million people speaking nearly sixty languages, brought into nationhood under the auspices of a single religion, but wracked with deep separatist fissures and the destabilizing forces of ongoing co ...

Author: Paul Theroux

This is a compendium of travel writing from a master traveller Paul Theroux who celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a tra ...

Author: Madeleine Marie Slavick

Madeleine Marie Slavick's book of prose and photography presents insects and high rises, dentists and trees, laughter and abstractions, and the poetry, poverty, and generosity of Hong Kong.

Madeleine Marie Slavick h ...

Author: Shane Allison

In the world where there are nearly no taboos, one of the few fantasies left unrealised for most is that of group sex. Shane Allison's Middle Men will inspire many readers to make sure they have at least two friends with ...

Author: Oscar Wilde

The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition. Continuously in print sin ...

Author: Jack Dann and Jonathan Strahan

Celebrate the legends of Australian fantasy. Come to Erith, to a faerie tale with a sting, or to Obernewtyn, long before the Seeker was born. Revisit a dark pocket of history for the Magician's Guild or get caught up in ...

Author: David Baird

What is love? Books and songs, films and poems, roses, candy, even days have been dedicated to it, but what do we understand of love? What part does it play in our lives, and what is our part in love? Where do we find lo ...

Author: Carmel Bird

An exceptional collection of personal stories on the meaning of b2homeb2, featuring Peter Goldsworthy, Andrea Goldsmith, Gabrielle Lord, Marion Halligan, Matthew Condon, Rosaleen Love, Cassandra Pybus, Ian Britain, Carme ...