The essential guide for fishermen of all levels. Reel your friends in with a superior knowledge of fishing knots and rigs for all occasions. The essential guide for fishermen of all levels, Dick Lewers Fishing Knots and Rigs is the tackle-box sized guide...

A Photographic Guide to Seashore Life of Australia will help you to easily identify the fascinating creatures you discover as you amble along the beach or gaze into rock pools.Coastal rock pools and beaches are alive with myriad forms of sea life - from...

A classic Australian story, illustrated with paintings by renowned artist Robert Ingpen that capture the wave-beaten shore and the windswept sandhills of the Coorong in South Australia, home of Storm Boy and the pelican, Mr Percival. New cover to...

Blood on the Wattle draws together, in a single volume, most of the information about the massacres of Aboriginal people which has been recorded in books and journals. It also creates a broad-based level of awareness of the scale of the massacres of...

Introducing a bold new voice - one of the most exciting short-story writers working in comics today.A coworker-turned-prospective-lover confesses a hard-to-swallow fetish. A train ride fantastically goes off the rails. Cousins revisit summer holiday...

A luminous journey through Australia's night sky celebrates the unbreakable bond between a mother and child.Soar through the Australian night sky with a flying-fox mum and her pup!Fly, Mama, Fly! takes young readers on a magical nocturnal journey with a...

Once they were just them. Now they're forty-something and there's kids. Whose time is this?Phil is trying to feel closer to his recently passed mother by spending time alone at his parent's house on the coast. But he is lonely, and stupidly he's invited...

From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty's debut novel, Fire Exit, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture, and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.From the porch of...

A health coach with ADHD offers the ultimate wellness guide for neurodivergent women, full of easy-to-implement and adaptable advice to help you thrive.ADHD makes it hard to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but an unhealthy lifestyle can make ADHD more...

Empowering children to cherish and protect their linguistic heritage.My Language Rights dives into the vibrant world of languages in our communities, showing how language is more than just words - it carries our stories, memories, and culture.Drawing on...

A panoramic novel of European history, by an internationally bestselling writer.The whole truth, as the name implies, is the collective knowledge of all those involved. Which is why you can never really piece it together again afterwards. Because some of...

The glittering story of April Ashley, model and trans pioneer, and the divorce case which gripped 1960s Britain and defined transgender rights for a generation.As Britain emerged from post-war austerity in the 1960s, no one embodied its newfound spirit...

A fresh appreciation of the magic of birds and how watching them fulfils a human need to connect with nature.Enchantment by birds is commonplace. Birdwatchers merely go a step further than others and actively seek to be enchanted. This book tells why...

'After some six decades of therapeutic practice and writing, I learned in a new and meaningful way how we humans - whether we're in the cool, distanced medium of Zoom, or in the heat of real life - can create a startlingly honest and heartfelt connection...

Spring is here, and it's time to plant the garden. We're planning to grow tomatoes, lettuce, and herbs - and maybe even add some worms! What else should we plant? Which flowers are best for attracting bees? And how do we care for everything?Learn all...

One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world's greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in individual pages. This is the story of an Australian man's hunt for those...

The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.Featuring Dean Alston, Badiucao, Matt Bissett-Johnson, Peter Broelman, Harry Bruce, Mark David, Christopher Downes, Andrew Dyson, John Farmer, First Dog on...

Josh Bornstein asks how our major corporations have come to exercise repressive control over the lives of their employees, and explores what can be done to repair the greatest threat to democracy - the out-of-control corporation.When you go to work, you...

A beguiling photographic collection of the faded signs and half-hidden logos of Melbourne, revealing the historic tales - big and small - of this ever-changing city.From the gold-rush years to the Swinging Sixties, from Robur Tea to Tarax soft drinks,...

Antonia Pesenti - award-winning creator of the much-loved Rhyme Cordial and Rhyme Hungry - is back with the third instalment in her Rhyme series- welcome to Party Rhyme!It's PARTY RHYME! Put on your PARTY BAT, enjoy the LIZZIE DRINKS, but don't eat too...

The must-have guide to addressing anxious, fearful, or reactive behaviours in your dog through positive reinforcement, from certified dog trainer and animal behaviourist Zazie Todd.Is your dog showing signs of fear, anxiety, or reactivity, such as...

A monumental journey through Baltic history and culture, in which we encounter well-known personalities and forgotten ones, and a disconcerting picture of Europe in the twentieth century.From 1999 to 2010, Jan Brokken explored life stories in Estonia,...

From the creator of multi-award-winning I Am the Subway. Making sure you get your rightful share in a family of five siblings is never easy. Everything must be carefully calculated and precisely measured to make sure no one misses out.How We Share Cake...

A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world.The Tarot de Marseille is a 16th-century set of playing cards, the deck on which the occult use of tarot was originally based. When Jessica...

A deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of global microfinance, told through the eyes of those who work in small-scale lending and of women borrowers in Sierra Leone, West Africa.There's a famous story about how...

Why do some adults think it's fine to hit children? Why does the school system fail so many pupils? And when their future is on the line, why can't children vote?How we treat children isn't fair. Despite the lip service paid to their rights, children are...

It's never too late to rewrite your own story.For years, Leila Whittaker has been the mediator in her family. She smoothes ruffled feathers between her sons; endures the volatile moods of their father, the acclaimed Australian artist Ken Black; and even...

An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality.In his new work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality...

A debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico.Life's a bitch. That's why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she's foaming at the mouth.In the linked stories of Reservoir Bitches, thirteen Mexican women prod...

Meet the ecosystem inside you ...A timid Bifidobacterium named Biffy is forced to leave their family and become part of a new community, in the gut of a newborn human baby.Follow Your Gut is a comic that ate a biology textbook. It's an epic adventure set...

London, 1936. Two sisters are ready to take the city and the world by storm. Bath, 2012. Two young Black men are figuring out who they are, and who they want to become.Manny is forthright, intellectual, and determined to make her mark on the London...

If I could meet my grandpa, this is what I would tell him ... When I grow up, I want to be like my dad.Oliver has never met his grandpa, and neither has his dad.In this heartwarming book, Oliver imagines telling his grandpa about the most important...

A young woman, torn between two cultures, belonging to neither. A family, torn apart by a war they had no choice about.Kieu calls herself Kim because it's easier for Europeans to pronounce. She knows little about her Vietnamese family's history until she...

An expert physicist argues for a revolutionary new understanding of quantum mechanics. The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events. This idea led to the outlandish belief...

Spiro's formula for spidery success- 11% hunger to succeed (or actual hunger) 34% trying again and again ... and again! 53% giving it another shot And 2% spider silk.A hilarious tale of one spider's determined search for a decent meal from award...

A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime expose, and memoir.It's 2008, and it's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles,...

A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes - from an award-winning science writer.For centuries humans ignored sound in the 'silent...

A powerful indictment of the criminal behaviour of police officers, and a call for institutional reform, edited by the multi-award-winning author of Black and Blue.When Cops Are Criminals examines the widespread problem of police brutality and corruption...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries - Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia - based on deep reporting.New Cold Wars - the latest from...

"The perfect early picture book for the curious kid!""This joyous debut from Jennifer Higgie celebrates the details and diversity of the world around us. In kaleidoscopic colour, Higgie takes young readers on a journey from some of life's most important...

On September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age thirty-one. His last words to his owner, Irene Pepperberg, were 'You be good. I love you.' What would normally be a quiet, very private event was, in Alex's case, headline...

A raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor - and why they hate liberalism.A raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor - and why they hate liberalism.When Joe Bageant returned to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, he...

Orwell's Australia argues that, in an era of global war and national insecurity, the Australian left must once again become the defenders of our way of life and political institutions - just as Orwell wanted the English left to do over half-a-century ago...

'Time is not an arrow. Neither is it a road. It goes in no particular direction. It simply accumulates - in the body, in the world - like wood does. Layer upon layer. Light then dark. Each one dependent upon the last. Each year impossible without the one...

This classic manual on repression by revolutionary activist Victor Serge offers fascinating anecdotes about the tactics of police provocateurs and an analysis of the documents of the tsarist secret police in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. With...

This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better.We don't need to wait for a leader or saviour. We don't need to limit ourselves to comments and clicks. In this stunningly...

Climb on my lap. We're under the moon. We might hear some animales soon.I Hear a Boho is a rhyming story with text in English and Spanish, which encompasses language, the parent-child bond, nature, and the benefit of being still, and listening.A mother...

Tonight is the opening night. There are birds perched everywhere, on the power lines, the guy ropes, the strings of light that festoon the tent ... when I think of all those little bodies suspended between earth and sky, it makes me smile to remind...