Family and health Books

Be Not Afraid of Love is a stunning collection of interconnected essays and affirmations that follow Mimi Zhu’s journey toward embodying and re-learning love after a violent relationship.In their early twenties, queer Chinese-Australian writer and...

You’ll Be a Wonderful Parent, Jasper Peach provides a practical and emotional guide for LGBTIQA+ families around the arrival of a new baby.Becoming a parent is already a challenging time, even more so if you don’t see yourself reflected in mainstream...

Tinder Translator is your hilarious and empowering feminist companion to the world of online dating apps, the patriarchy and self-love from Aileen Barratt of @TinderTranslators.   Ten years after the...

Featuring 50 short, easy movements and techniques, presented in the handy form of a card pack, you can mix and match to create your own flows or use one of the guided sequences provided. This handbag essential provides the building blocks for...

A beautifully illustrated, irreverent guide to breaking out of the anxious thought patterns that hold us back.   This little self-help book contains 101 anxiety spiral-stopping exercises, inspiring pep talks, and calm-the-F-down activities. This...

You’ll Be a Wonderful Dad is your practical and emotional guide on fatherhood in the lead up and months following the birth of a baby. Once a letter to a dear friend and quickly passed on from dad to dad, Ailsa Wild’s warm and encouraging words of...

Your Best Skin is your essential skincare manual, breaking down the science of your skin in a friendly, trustworthy and accessible way. Pharmaceutical scientist and beauty writer Hannah English takes an unbiased, science-backed dive into everything...

Discover the joy – and health benefits – of walking and seeing the natural world.In this delightful guide, Alice Peck explains how, rather than simply providing a way of getting from one place to another, the simple practice of walking can have huge...

So often, we think that grief lives only in our hearts and minds. But what about the emotions that weigh us down and the grief that gets stuck in our body? Our emotions need motion, and Healing Through Yoga is a unique, simple and powerful way of...

A former marine, and now the film industry’s most in-demand fitness trainer, Simon Waterson’s client list reads like a who’s who of A-list actors. He has transformed Daniel Craig into the formidable James Bond for five blockbuster films, shaped Chris...

Winner of the Australian Career Book of the Year Award 2022 (RSA Oceania)This Working Life is the book you need to navigate your career with courage, openness and a good dose of laughter in uncertain times. Springing off the success of her ABC...

Cassoulet Confessions is an enthralling memoir by award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar that reveals how a simple journalistic assignment sparked a culinary obsession and transcended into a quest for identity. Set in the stunning southern...

Are you avoiding gluten but yearn for fluffy cakes, fresh bread, filled doughnuts, game-changing pastries and mind-blowing desserts?From best-selling author Becky Excell, How to Bake Anything Gluten Free is the first cookbook that shows you how turn your...

How to Play Your Best Golf is the essential golf handbook to help any golfer understand and improve their game.In this guide, highly respected pro golfer Nick O’Hern takes you through the strategies to golfing success. He reveals the key secrets of...

Manual of Healthy Longevity and Wellbeing is your easy-to-follow, practical guide to maximising your chance of living a long, happy life in good health. Skilled physician and world expert on longevity, Professor Luigi Fontana, has drawn upon the...

Ayurvedic Rituals: Wisdom, Recipes and the Ancient Art of Self-Care is your introduction and practical guide to Ayurvedic philosophy, showing you how a deep connection to yourself and your natural environment will help achieve harmony in your body and...

Still Together explores of the ways we feel detached from our lives, goals and relationships, and teaches us how we can begin to reclaim ourselves through mindfulness and meditation.    While technology promises us constant connection,...

Award-winning dietitian, bestselling author, and co-founder of the intuitive eating movement, Evelyn Tribole, offers an inviting and practical introduction to intuitive eating.Intuitive Eating is a life-changing path to cultivating a healthy relationship...

Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illustrated vignettes of life in the City of Light. What began as a way to fund travel became ten years of a letter subscription service...

Are you avoiding gluten but yearn for fresh bread, all your favourite takeaways or a naan bread with your curry? And for your sweet tooth do you crave jam doughnuts, bakery-style cookies and classic cakes?How to Make Anything Gluten Free is the...

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Snug and the bestselling Little Moments of Love comes an all-new collection, In Love & Pajamas by Catana Chetwynd of Catana Comics! When you've reached that...

Returning to the form of Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately, Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back is a beacon of light for all who struggle or have struggled with their mental health. Structured similar to her first book, 'Side A' is the poetry and 'Side B' (the...

Rise and Shine is a vibrant deck of illustrated cards to mix and match your own unique morning ritual of yoga, meditation and inspiration. Start your morning by putting on some relaxing music, light some incense and select your 10 cards for the day. Then...

The comics in Happily Ever After (And Everything in Between) may be inspired by Debbie Tung’s marriage to her extrovert husband, but any couple can relate to increasingly relaxed anniversaries, slowly seeing more of each other’s weird sides, or the...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and society has existed on this continent for millennia. It's a culture that manifests itself as the ultimate example of resilience, strength and beauty. It’s also a culture that has consistently been led by...

Ideas, poetry, and prose from bestselling authors Samantha King Holmes & r.h. Sin.

A board book with six touch-and-feel (or smell!) elements that punctuate simple illustrations, this hilarious novelty book provides today's hardworking grown-up different tactile, visual, or smelly ways to, well, calm the f *ck down.Bright, bold images...

Chetwynd’s second book has the same charming and inviting style as her first and includes 50 percent new, never-before-shared comics. Snug is a celebration of the quirks and peculiarities of every one of us—and the magic that happens when we find our...

In What A Time To Be Alone, The Slumflower will be your life guru, confidante and best friend. She’ll show you that being alone is not just okay: it’s just about the best freaking thing that’s ever happened to you. As she says, ‘You’re bad...

Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Poetry, amanda lovelace presents her new illustrated duology, “things that h(a)unt.” In this first installment, to make monsters out of girls, lovelace explores the memory of being in an abusive...

Discard both your clothes and daily cares and enjoy a time-honoured bathing ritual with Onsen of Japan. For thousands of years, Japanese hot springs (or onsen) have been revered for their relaxing and healing qualities, and this guidebook highlights 140...

This keepsake booklet of prompted letters invites parents to give the gift of a lifetime to their son, whether he’s still at home or out on his own. Each letter offers a chance to share favourite memories, words of wisdom, and hopes for a bright future...

The journey from love to heartbreak to finding love again is personal yet universal. Lang Leav's evocative love poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey.  Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her...

Set to a musical theme, love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece from the best-selling Love & Misadventure. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to...

The instant New York Times bestselling author of Bad Mormon and breakout star of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City returns with a hilarious, illustrative, and deeply reflective book about life and love as a former Mormon, mother, and reality TV star...

Zig Ziglar. The name alone is synonymous with decades of sharing his personal wisdom, integrity, and successful life strategies—impacting worldwide audiences.   This book is filled with Zig’s principles for successful living—simple yet effective...

Your comprehensive guide to using food as medicine to fight diabetes—the fastest growing chronic condition worldwide. • 50 delicious plant-based recipes to promote good health for everyone you cook for. • Recipes specifically developed to help you...

Bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another mythical approach to self-care in her newest poetry collection, Persephone Made Me Do It. Following her previous work in this series, Mateer weaves...

In this book, you'll discover the root cause of all psychological and emotional suffering and how to achieve freedom of mind to effortlessly create the life you've always wanted to live.Although pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.This book offers...

Sweet reassurance and validation for anyone feeling adrift—this collection of verse, illustrations, and photography is a poetic refuge far away from loneliness.A delicate blend of melancholy reflections and absurd hopefulness, Small Ghost explores the...

love comes in many colors.this is a story of breaking and healing, of forgiving but not forgetting, of understanding and balance. it is not only something to enjoy, but something to learn from.here are the things i did right, and the many things i...

Radical Rest will argue that the national burnout we have all experienced in some form over the last few years is a symptom of a desperately unhealthy society. The solution lies not only with the individual, because we cannot simply ‘fix ourselves’ under...

The pocket guide to DIY beauty – use fresh fruit and pantry staples to create all natural treatments for your skin, body, hair and nails. Make your own face masks, cleansers, acne treatments, moisturisers, foot scrubs, lip balms and more!What you put in...

Acclaimed clinical nutritionist and bestselling author Sarah Di Lorenzo celebrates her Mediterranean heritage by sharing over 200 beloved recipes and cherished family stories. Brimming with fresh vegetables, fruits, extra-virgin olive oil, fish and nuts,...

Inspiring readings for spiritual seekers growing older, wiser, and fiercer• Presents years of weekly inspiration and practices pointing the way forward through every conceivable mood, opportunity, and stumbling block on the spiritual journey through the...

Navigate grief, call in more healing, and lean on the spiritual force of grace with this beautifully-illustrated 64-card oracle deck and guidebook from trusted author and spiritual guide Tanya Carroll Richardson.The Grief, Grace, and Healing card deck...

This second edition of the groundbreaking book by acclaimed interventionist and educator Debra Jay celebrates the unique and powerful role families play in successful long-term...

Set in Montréal, Clay Footed Giants is a tragicomic meditation on parenthood, masculinity, and violence.Being a parent is so much harder than Pat ever imagined. While his partner Ester is away on a work trip. Pat loses his temper and transforms into a...