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by William McInnes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A heart-warming short story that will make us laugh and cry, and remind us why the little things in our lives are so important, from one of Australia?s best-loved writers, William McInnes. Lachlan and his dad head down to the oval for the under-twelves cricket game, as they do most Saturdays in the...
by William McInnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
William McInnes, one of Australia's best-loved entertainers and authors, takes a look at the Aussie obsession with sports and pop culture.
A chance encounter in an auction house is the jumping-off point for William's inimitable take on our sport-obsessed nation, Australian popular culture and...
Five Go Adventuring Again
Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timothy. Together they are THE FAMOUS FIVE - Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. All 21 titles also available as audiobooks!
In their second adventure, the Famous Five find a thief at Kirrin Cottage. They think they know who it is, but need to prove...
by Enid Blyton
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Enid Blyton's much-loved classic series, packed full of adventure and mystery.
Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack escape their tutor for a lovely holiday in Cornwall, right by the sea. They can see the sinister Isle of Gloom from their window, covered in mist and harbouring strange secrets. Are...
by Greg Ames
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
James Fitzroy isn't doing so well. Though his old friends in Buffalo believe his life in New York City is a success, in fact he writes ridiculous taglines for a greeting card company. Now he's coming home on Thanksgiving to visit his aging father and dying mother, and unlike other holidays, he's not...
by Inga Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Mr Wigg captivates to the end' - Good Reading Magazine
It's the summer of 1971, not far from the stone-fruit capital of New South Wales, where Mr Wigg lives on what is left of his family farm. Mrs Wigg has been gone a few years now and he thinks about her every day. He misses his daughter,...
Under the Wire
Marie Colvin's Final Assignment
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The true story of iconic war correspondent Marie Colvin (called by her peers "the greatest war correspondent of her generation") featured in the forthcoming film A Private War, produced by Charlize Theron and starring Rosamund Pike. Also the basis of the documentary Under the Wire.
Marie...
Fannie's Last Supper
Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
In the mid-1990s, Chris Kimball moved into an 1859 Victorian townhouse on the South End of Boston and, as he became accustomed to the quirks and peculiarities of the house and neighborhood, he began to wonder what it was like to live and cook in that era. In particular, he became fascinated with Fannie...
Being Dead Is No Excuse
The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Folks in the Delta have a strong sense of community, and being dead is no impediment to belonging to it. Down South, they don't forget you when you've up and died--in fact, they visit you more often. But there are quintessential rules and rituals for kicking the bucket tastefully. Having a flawless...
Some Day You'll Thank Me for This
The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Being a "Perfect" Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
A hilarious guide to that incomparable creature--the Southern mother.
Southern society is arranged along matriarchal lines, since the Southern matriarch is a far more formidable being than the much nicer Southern male. She has to be this way; she was put on earth with a sacred mission: to drum...
Hell on Earth
Sandakan - Australia's Greatest War Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The heart-rending story of the Australians brutally imprisoned in Sandakan, the Japanese POW camp in North Borneo, whose very name came to symbolise cruelty and ill-treatment.
In mid-1942, after the fall of Singapore, almost three thousand Allied prisoners of war were taken by the Japanese...
by Clive Gifford
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
In which play would you find the characters, Bottom, Quince, Puck and Titania?
How many of Shakespeare's history plays featured a King called Henry in their title?
Does Juliet die by poison, stabbing herself or throwing herself off of a balcony?
So you've read Shakespeare's plays,...
by Melissa de la Cruz
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
"A sexy, magical romp, sure to bring de la Cruz a legion of new fans."
-Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author of The Otherworld series
From the author of the highly addictive and bestselling Blue Bloods series, with almost 3 million copies sold, comes a new novel, Melissa...
Ambon
The Truth About One of the Most Brutal POW Camps in World War II and the Triumph of the Aussie Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares.
In February, 1942, Ambon, an Indonesian island north of Darwin, fell to the Japanese army and the Allied forces defending it were captured. Over a thousand of these soldiers were Australian. By the end of the war, just...