Two women from different worlds in Renaissance France cross paths in a way that changes both their lives. One is Marguerite de Navarre, a King’s sister. Powerful, privileged and widely admired, Marguerite must ...
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A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place of her childhood, holing up in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro. She does not believe in God and doesn't ...
Over seventy years had passed since Mira Unreich was freed from a concentration camp in Germany. On that spring day in 1945, she found herself alive, against all odds. In the decades that followed, she never ...
Penny Albright is a daughter of the thorn coven, forced to patrol the veil between the realms of Life and Death. Each night, one thorn witch—and only one—must cross the veil by burning at the stake. Each morning, ...
Crown Resorts, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten’s Allied Medical Group, 7-Eleven, and Rio Tinto, the list goes on…
Australia has suffered from a continual sting of business scandals. ...
It's 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted. A group of NGO workers have been kidnapped by local insurgents and are now hidden in a winding mountain region. After attempts to ...
In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. A life of almost constant travelling followed. From the deserts of Australia, ...
Salonika Burning by Gail Jones has been announced as the 2023 Historical Novel Society Australasia prize winner in the Adult category. Find out more about the prize and shortlisted titles HERE.
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The Bookseller's Apprentice by Amelia Mellor has been announced as the 2023 Historical Novel Society Australasia prize winner in the YA category. Find out more about the prize and shortlisted titles ...
This illustrated memoir explores the evolution of one of Australia’s finest design minds. A visual delight, it ranges from photos of childhood gardens and goats to hand-drawn plans for Paul’s earliest designs. ...
Edinburgh is haunted by the ghosts of its many writers. It is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime. ...
'The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac' is official companion to the Harry Potter stories. The ultimate compendium of wizarding lists, charts, maps and all things magical! Discover magical places, study wandlore, ...
Salt River Road is a compelling coming-of-age novel about grief and healing set in a small town in the 1970s. The Tetley siblings’ lives are falling apart after their mother’s death. Left to fend for themselves as ...
Gigorou (jig-goo-roo) means ‘beauty’ or ‘beautiful’ in Jirrbal, the language of Sasha Kutabah Sarago’s grandmother. Growing up, Sasha didn’t feel gigorou. At a young age, she was told, ‘You’re too pretty to be ...
There are more than 50 000 species of spiders. They surround us in our daily lives and, contrary to popular belief, the vast majority are completely harmless to humans. James O’Hanlon takes us from his backyard to ...
When Anna Funder returned to the work of her literary hero George Orwell looking for escape and inspiration, she began re-reading his books and biographies. Anna Funder uncovered his forgotten wife – and it’s a ...
When five couples pool their resources to live in a house located where a turquoise lagoon meets the sea, the quirky little offshore community of Cook's Basin is shocked. How will ten people - one in a wheelchair ...
The crime of sextortion has reached epidemic proportions. Fuelled by both sex offenders and organised scammers it targets our most vulnerable online. Children are some of the internet's most prolific and most naive ...
Many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart. However, very little has been written about the poet’s extraordinary life. From her childhood and youth in Sydney’s Point ...
Spanish fighter and photographer Mateo Baca is imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, 1944. He is ordered to process images of the camp and inmates for photo books being made for top Nazi ...
Britain, 1961: the beautiful blonde baby Diana is born to Viscount Althorp, heir to the Spencer earldom. However, Diana grows up amid the fallout of her parents’ messy divorce. She struggles at school but finds ...
From the author of Fake History, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at 10 of the greatest liars from our past. Otto English examines these previously unquestioned idols and exposes what they were trying to ...
A near-fatal car accident has left Jane Halifax in a coma. When she wakes, she has no idea who she is. Initially comforted by unlikely spectres from past cases, Jane is unaware of everyone else’s concerns: the ...
One of the lucky few with a job during the Depression, Peggy’s just starting out in life. She’s a bagging girl at the Angliss meatworks, a place buzzing with life as well as death, where the gun slaughterman Jack ...
Bob is sixty-five years old, confined to a Perth nursing home. But thirty years ago, he killed a man in the remote northern Kimberley mining region. He offers to show Sparrow where the body is, but there's a catch: ...
