Following on from her award-winning memoir Ten Hail Marys,Kate Howarth's extraordinary life continues in Settling Day.Following on from her award-winning memoir Ten Hail Marys,Kate Howarth's extraordinary life continues in Settling Day. Thrust out of...

Xander Panda is planning a party, a dandy panda party! But he has to change the plans and send more and more invitations as the guest list grows and grows.Xander Panda is planning a party, a dandy panda party! But he has to change the plans and send...

Jacks and Jokers is the gripping second instalment of the rise - and spectacular fall - of one man, an entire state and generations of corruption.'The message was powerfully clear. If you threatened the harmony of the Joke, you didn't last long...

Moving Among Strangers is a literary and family pilgrimage celebrating one of Australia's most enigmatic and visionary writers.Two literary lives defined by storytelling and secrets As her mother Joan lies dying, Gabrielle Carey writes a letter to...

Edited by Jane Caro, this entertaining and thought-provoking collection includes essays, analysis, memoir, fiction, satire, polemic and tweets from some of our best and brightest.A fabulously provocative collection by women ready to destroy the joint.In...

An inspiring tale about one girl and her fight to make a difference for the Australian koala from an engaging new voice in children's literature.Like Gran always said, 'Things don't have to be big to be special.'When Rose and Gran save a baby koala from...

A brand new edition of an internationally renowned science bestseller.Now well into its fourth decade, What is this thing called Science? has become a classic the world over. Each decade Alan Chalmers has drawn on his experience as a teacher and...

With more battles, more action and more words, these hunters are discovering history like never before, as they search for their grandfather - the lost hunter.In their previous adventure, Lexi and Al thought they had seen it all - time travel, epic...

A tale celebrating the joy of friendship.Squish is just a little rabbit, but being little leads to big fears . . . of storms and chickens and the dark . . . especially the dark! What will Squish do when he can't find his friend one stormy night? Maybe...

Winner of the 2011 National Book Prize for Young People's Literature and 2012 Newbery Medal Honor Book, this stunning and engaging verse novel will captivate readers of all ages.Moving to America turns H 's life inside out.For all the ten years of her...

Growing up on the Mission isn't easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn't know what to say. Papa Neddy says her father is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn't help when the Mission kids call her...

'Please, sir. The apple isn't rubbish . . . it's for the birds.'In a country town, in a school just like yours, the kids in Class 6A tell their stories.There's Mick, school captain and sometimes trouble-maker, who wants to make the school a better place,...

An enchanting story of friendship, growing up and acceptance from one of Australia's favourite storytellers.There's a new boy at Matty and Bill's school - Crispin de Floriette. He's from England and not like anyone else they've met before. Spoilt...

Small towns don't feel small when you grow up there. That comes later. The world as you know it seems wide. You feel close to it, the smells, the seasons, the secret places. But slowly, imperceptibly, like childhood itself, that comfortable, familiar,...

Taj and the Great Camel Trek by an award-winning author Rosanne Hawke is an inspirational and gripping adventure and a tribute to the Afghan camel drivers who helped explore Australia.Beltana South Australia 1875Twelve-year-old Taj and his camel Mustara...

What determines 'traditional' Aboriginal art in an era when modern media such as aluminium, acrylic paint and even cast-off fishing nets have become the media of choice for contemporary artists? What is the relationship between artworks that share...

The fourth title in UQP's internationally recognised Creative Economy + Innovation Culture series Joining John Howkins' Creative Ecologies, John Hartley's The Uses of Digital Literacy and Carsten Herrmann-Pillath's The Economics of Identity and...

Frank, funny an incredibly moving,Ten Hail Marysis the compelling true story of a childhood lost, and a young woman's hard-won self-possession.An extraordinary story of hope and survival.In January 1966, Kate Howarth gave birth to a healthy baby boy at...

Introducing a compelling new series that offers leading international thinking on conflict and peacebuilding. Journalists control our access to news. By pitching stories from particular angles, the media decides the issues for public debate. In...

Nick Earls popular first young adult novel, After January, now re-released with the story, 'Juliet' that started it all. Originally published separately, 'Juliet' is the prequel to Alex's journey into the summer that changed everything and is now...

Are toenails a good source of vitamin C?What are ten things you will never hear your parents say?And, more importantly, how do you untangle spaghetti? A collection of humorous, touching and thought-provoking poems celebrating the everyday lives of...

An enchanting story of friendship, acceptance and trust from one of Australia's favourite storytellers.Bill and Matty are neighbours. And best friends. Together they share their deepest, darkest secrets and lean on each other when things aren't right at...

This lively debut novel tells the story of five very different men and women who share a busy inner-city bus route but who are on very different journeys. Featuring an immigrant cellist grieving the loss of his daughter; a young banker who finds that...

Our Way- Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Lockhart River introduces the unique and stunning art of a group of young Aboriginal artists from far north Queensland's Lockhart River community. Lockhart River is Australia's only remote youth-driven Aboriginal...

From the groundbreaking Bicycle and Other Poems to the best-selling Typewriter Music, Revolving Days is a resplendent, up-to-the-minute selection by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. Malouf's best poems, with their grace and intelligence,...

David Malouf's brilliant collection of poems begins with a memory of new love - with 'grace unasked for, urgencies that boom under the pocket of a shirt' - and ends in the intimate territory of the long-familiar where there is no need for words.This...

Short-listed for the CBCA Book of the Year- Older Readers "When can I hold you then?" He whispered. "I want to. I... " He was going to say I love you - but what did that mean? For Xavier McLachlan, rugby is life. Winning a 1st XV jersey means everything....

Ruby Langford Ginibi's bestselling first book is now back in print.With sales of over 30,000 copies since publication in 1988, Don't Take Your Love to Town is now a seminal work of Indigenous memoir. It has been set for HSC over a number of years and is...

For nearly forty years Peter Skrzynecki has published poetry that explores the assimilation of post-war immigrants in Australia, chronicling their struggle for identity and acceptance into mainstream society. His poems are elegiac, meditative and lyrical...

Whether meditating on life or letting her hair down, Anonymous Premonition gives the low down on what it is to be an Indigenous woman today. Yvette Holt's startling and fresh poems treat us to an energetic and unconventional journey from love, sex,...

Urban Myths- 210 Poems brings the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia, together with a generous selection of new work. Smart, wry and very stylish, John Tranter s poems investigate the vagaries...

When Gracie, Daisy and Molly are taken from their mother and sent away to the Moore River Settlement, thousands of miles from their home country, they decide to escape. But when the only way home is along a rabbit-proof fence, and you re being chased by...

These poems pulse with the language and images of a mangrove-lined river city, the beckoning highway, the just-glimpsed muse, the tug of childhood and restless ancestors. For the first time Samuel Wagan Watson's poetry has been collected into this...

"Is that you . . . ?" Matron's voice would ring out across the dormitory. In that pause sixty little girls would stop in their tracks, waiting to hear who was in trouble. All too often the name called out would be that of the high spirited dormitory girl...

The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning memoir Is That You, Ruthie?After twenty-two years under Government control as an inmate of Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission, Ruth journeys towards freedom by marrying Joe Hegarty and moving to a nearby settlement...

To travel this long, lonely road is to traverse a stretch of brutal history and to enter a gigantic crime scene. The landscape itself holds a million clues to a horror story blazing across two centuries. Winding through a haunted place that is forever...

I am a Turtle. My eyes are black, my shell is green. Wide ocean calls me, as I lie curled in the dark. Tides roar in my blood, surf pounds in my heart. A lyrical journey of the life of a Green Turtle from hatchling beneath the sand of a coral beach,...

'I'll be lucky to last a bloody year,' was the prediction of nineteen year old Charlie Schultz. That was 1928, when he first arrived to take up the management of Humbert River Station. A tiny run-down property in a tangle of wild ranges, neighbour to the...

Play hide-and-seek with dolphins, seasnakes, whales, turtles and other creatures of the sea to find the most amazing creature of all. Following the huge success of the award-winning One Less Fish, here's a new book which brings to life a magical...

For every good dog able to work things out for itself, there are many more potentially useful dogs unable to do so. Training and Working Dogs will allow every owner of a new pup to train it with confidence and produce an obedient, responsive and alert...

The river Fineflour flows through this narrative as it flows through the town, linking time and place, character and event. A source of myth and memory, it brings tragedy as well as comfort. There is an undercurrent of sadness and suspended grief in...

A delightful verse novel rejoicing in the innocence of young friendship.At school I have lots of friends. I have so many friends that sometimes I don't know who to play with.Tahnee wants everyone in her Year 2 class to get along and be happy. But what...

A unique dual-language (English and Arabic) picture book about the Syrian refugee crisis inspired by the stone artwork of Syrian artist Nizar Ali Badr.When I was little, not so long ago, my brother, Sami, our friends and I played on sunbaked soil. We...

A collection of gripping short stories themed around fear and hope written by internationally acclaimed children's author Brian Falkner.A boy helps his sister disguise her birthmark on her first day of school. A seventeen-year-old awakens to find...

From one of Australia's most-loved and prolific authors comes a funny and endearing tale about a boy called Eric and his dog Ugly.My Dog Gets a Job picks up where the very successful My Dog Doesn't Like Me left off. At almost ten years of age, Eric is...

A brilliantly boisterous picture book celebrating brothers everywhere.Some brothers tap tambourines as the drummers keep the beat. But my brother is a beast . . . he pounds pianos with his feet.All brothers are different. But what if your brother was...

Tom Sawyer on acid, a 21st-century On the Road, a Holden Caulfield for punks ... an extraordinary memoir of a wild adolescence, told in a compelling, poetic voice.In Scoundrel Days Brentley Frazer tells the story of his youth - wild, disillusioned,...

A powerful historical novel about three young women caught in the hysteria of their own times.In 1628, Veronica and her brother flee for their lives into the German woods after their father is burned at the stake.At the dawn of the eighteenth century,...