Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

$29.99 AUD

Category: General

Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her young black babysitter, Emira Tucker, is accused by a security guard of kidnapping the Chamberlains' toddler at the supermarket one night. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make it right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke and wary of Alix's desire to help. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other. With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the awkwardness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone 'family', the complicated reality of being a grown-up and the consequences of doing the right thing for the wrong reason.   ...Show more

Love Is Strong As Death: Poems Chosen by Paul Kelly (HB) by Paul Kelly

$39.99 AUD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 3 Biography

Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed and the profane, the famous and the little known, to speak to two of literature's great themes that have proven so powerful in his music- love and death - plus everything in between. Here are poems by Yehuda Amichai, W.H. Auden, Tusiata Avia, Hera Lindsay Bird, William Blake, Bertolt Brecht, Constantine Cavafy, Alison Croggon, Mahmoud Darwish, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Ali Cobby Eckermann, James Fenton, Thomas Hardy, Kevin Hart, Gwen Harwood, Seamus Heaney, Philip Hodgins, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Ono No Komachi, Maxine Kumin, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Norman MacCaig, Paula Meehan, Czeslaw Milosz, Les Murray, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, Ovid, Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Porter, Rumi, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Izumi Shikibu, Warsan Shire, Kenneth Slessor, Wislawa Szymborska, Maire Mhac an tSaoi, Ko Un, Walt Whitman, Judith Wright, W.B. Yeats and many more. ...Show more

Deep State by Chris Hauty

$32.99 AUD

Category: Crime/Thriller

THE DEEP STATE - noun A covert state hidden within a government; a secret organisation of high-level operatives;   exerts control through manipulation and a culture of pain and fear. *** Hayley Chill isn't your typical West Wing intern. Ex-military and as patriotic as she is principled, she is largely vilified by her peers and lauded by her superiors - it's a quick way of making enemies. It is Hayley who finds the body of the White House chief of staff, Peter Hall, on his kitchen floor having died from an apparent heart attack. It is also Hayley who notices a single clue which suggests his death was deliberate, targeted. That he was assassinated. Unsure who to trust, Hayley works alone to uncover a wide-ranging conspiracy that controls the furthest reaches of the government. And Hall is just the beginning - the president is the next target. Hayley must now do the impossible: stop an assassination, when she has no idea who the enemy is, all while staying hidden, with Peter's final words to her ringing in her ears: Trust no one. Because the Deep State will kill to silence her. And they are closing in. *** It is entrenched. It is hidden. It is deadly.     Who can you trust? *** WHY READERS HAVE BEEN FLOORED BY DEEP STATE . . .  'Deep State has just become the first author since Sarah Pinborough to completely floor me with a pitch perfect unexpected resolution. Brilliant'  'This one had great twists and turns. When I thought we were headed in one direction, it would veer off into another and I loved it'  'This is going to be THE book for 2020' 'Somewhere between David Baldacci's Absolute Power and Vince Flynn's Tern Limits. Timely set ups makes this page turner unputdownable . . .'   ...Show more

How to Adult: A Guide to Not Being a Trash Human, and Other Life Lessons by Anna Blackie

$24.99 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships

Do you know your shiraz from your merlot? Could you find north if you were lost in the wilderness? Are you craving gravy but don't how to make this magical sauce? The answers are all here. From doing your taxes to changing a tire, asking for a raise to mastering the art of avocado preparation. This is t he ultimate guide to all of the things a fully functioning adult should know to survive in the big scary world. Packed with sage advice from a real-life hopeless millennial, this book will keep you from starvation, make folding fitted sheets a reality, and teach you to look like a real professional adult when you're actually just an incompetent trash human. Adulting goals AF. ...Show more

H is for Happiness (My Life as an Alphabet - Film Tie-in) by Barry Jonsberg

$16.99 AUD

Category: 9-12 Years Middle Readers

Film tie-in edition of My Life as an Alphabet which is now the major Australian film, H is for Happiness. A delightful story of an unusual girl who goes to great lengths to bring love and laughter into the lives of everyone she cares about.  

Grandmothers by Salley Vickers

$32.99 AUD

Category: General | Reading Level: 1 Fiction

Grandmothers follows four grandmothers - Blanche, who can't seem to stop stealing things from the local pharmacy; Minna, who just wants a quiet life in her shepherd's hut, though the local children have other ideas; Cherry, who's adjusting to life in a care home; and Nan, whose favourite occupation is r esearching funerals - whose lives and grandchildren become unexpectedly entangled. ...Show more

The Changing Mind - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well by Daniel Levitin

$35.00 AUD

Category: General

What if the best was yet to come? Recent studies show that our happiness levels peak at age 82, and that our decision-making skills improve as we age. As more of us live past the age of 80, in this ground-breaking book, Dr Daniel Levitin uses cutting-edge research from neuroscience and psychology to dem onstrate the benefits of getting older. Packed with engaging interviews with individuals who thrived far beyond the conventional age of retirement, this book also reflects on challenges many readers will recognize. Levitin offers a realistic personal plan full of practical, cognitive enhancing tricks for everyone to follow over the years. Successful Ageing is a radical exploration of what we all can learn from those who age joyously. This book will revolutionize the way we plan for old age as individuals, family members, and citizens of a society in which the average life expectancy continues to rise. ...Show more

Second Sight by Aoiffe Clifford

$24.99 AUD

Category: Crime/Thriller

I Will Miss You Tomorrow (#1 Thorkild Aske Mystery) by Heine Bakkeid; Anne Bruce (Translator)

$29.99 AUD

Category: Crime/Thriller | Series: A\Thorkild Aske Mystery Ser.

The first in a new Norwegian crime series featuring disgraced ex-Chief Inspector Thorkild Aske, a damaged man with a complicated past. Fresh out of prison and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, disgraced ex-policeman Thorkild Aske only wants to lose himself in drugged dreams of his beloved Frei. Wild, unknowable Frei. The woman he loved. The woman he has lost forever. Yet when Frei's young cousin goes missing off the Norwegian coast and Thorkild is called in by the family to help find him, dead or alive, Thorkild cannot refuse. He owes them this. Tormented by his past, Thorkild soon finds himself deep in treacherous waters. He's lost his reputation - will he now lose his life?   ...Show more

Tiger Heart by Penny Chrimes

$15.99 AUD

Category: 9-12 Years Middle Readers

One magical friendship. One roaring adventure. The magical tale of a bold young chimney sweep and a remarkable tiger, a dangerously hypnotic ruby and a mystical land found across an ocean and through a storm. Perfect for fans of The Girl of Ink and Stars and Pax. Fly never meant to end up in a cage with a man-eating tiger. And though she's no princess, when the tiger bows to her, she can't help vowing to free him and return him home. But the bird-filled jungles and cloud-topped mountains of the tiger's homeland are an ocean away. And not everyone wants the tiger to return. With dark and dangerous forces working against them, will Fly be able to fulfil her promises, keep them both alive and - just maybe - become the queen her tiger knows her to be? ...Show more

SuperFastDiet: Part-Time Dieting for Long-term Weight Loss by Victoria Black; Gen Davidson

$34.99 AUD

Category: Health & Diet

'I've lost 35 kilograms in 28 weeks. I have done a lot of different programs and SuperFastDiet has been the most awesome program. I love it. I'm the best me I've ever been.' SuperFast is the world's leading online fasting program for weight loss. Founders Gen Davidson and Victoria Black, who have lost 4 0 kg between them, have spent the last two years designing a program that extends the principles of intermittent fasting, as advocated by Michael Mosley, and building a weight loss community along the Weight Watchers and 12 WBT models, both of which are revolutionising the way we think about shedding kilos.In response to community demand, some of whom have lost upwards of 30 kg, Gen and Vic have now written a book that outlines three different fasting options and offers 80 recipes packed full of goodness and taste. Easy, adaptable and enjoyable - yes, you can have your cake/wine/chocolate - this is the diet that everyone wants to know about for one simple reason: it works. ...Show more

Riding with Giants by Peter Holmes à Court

$34.99 AUD

Category: General

In 2011, international businessman Peter Holmes Court left the executive world and found himself living deep in rural France with only his seven-year-old twin girls for company. Peter was struggling as a single father in a foreign country - unsettled by the sudden move away from a traditional job, and c ompletely baffled by the society around him. His only plan- to ride L'Etape du Tour, the challenging amateur leg of the Tour de France. In an effort to find some new friends in the community - and a bike for the race - he discovered the region's small bicycle factory. He was soon spending his days there- photographing his custom bike being built, meeting the locals, and learning about the rich traditions of artisan craftsmanship. Trying to enjoy the simple things and become a better father, Peter slowed down, and started to reflect seriously on history, industry and the structure of our modern economy. He and his daughters finally began to put down roots and understand the beauty and calm of a small-scale existence - and a very different approach to excellence and the well-lived life. This is one man's compelling, informative and funny story about the wisdom of children, the nature of work today, and the science of bicycles. ...Show more