Penguin Random House Australia: 1771 books

It's 1849 . . . and Nellie O'Neill is arriving in South Australia on a ship bringing orphan girls from Irish workhouses. Nellie and her best friend, Mary, have left the famine in Ireland far behind, and are full of hopes and dreams for the future. Nellie longs to learn to read, to be part of a family...

Haunted by the brutal murder of a local couple, David heads to his weekend shack with his new lover, Lydia, and his children from his recently crumbled marriage. Together they find escape, if only briefly, in the ocean and the bush. The Bodysurfers, the title story of Robert Drewe's classic first collection, is a vivid evocation of love, passion, terror and the beauty of the beach.

Soon enough, every parent will have to discuss online safety with their children. This book is your salvation. Widely regarded as Australia's first cyber cop, cyber-safety expert Susan McLean helps you understand and connect with your child's online world, and guide them safely through it in...

From the internationally bestselling author of Homestead Girls and Red Sand Sunrise comes this heartfelt story of friendship, forgiveness and love. A year after a tragic accident changed her life forever, Tess Daley is in desperate need of a change. When she is offered a position with the Flying...

'Being present as the midwife at a baby's birth is one of life's glorious adventures.' Nineteen Australian midwives share their incredible stories with passionate midwife and bestselling author Fiona McArthur. Midwives play a vital role in supporting women through some of the most challenging...

Award-winning author Sue Saliba's lyrical young adult novel about following your heart to the most unexpected and beautiful of places. mia's heart made a sound that no one heard except for mia late one night when she woke from dreams into darkness. ethan was asleep beside her, and em was a...

Do you feel like your finances are out of control?� Is debt a problem?� Are you wondering when and if you'll be able to retire comfortably?� Or do you want to increase your wealth, maximise the benefits of investments you already have, or just become smarter with your money? Whatever...

The controversial legacy of the Rudd-Gillard governments, along with Labor's 2013 election defeat, looms large over the party. Labor risks years in the political wilderness unless it can reinvent itself. What did it get right, where did it go worng, and how can it regain the trust of voters? Troy...

Something was in the rings that shouldn't have been there. Life on the remote moon Ord is dangerous.� Random eruptions in the ice, extreme cold, loneliness and loss: it's all Dece knows. Until one day he sees a mysterious object caught in the rings of the nearby gas planet, Cotal. With...

Winner of the 2014 Australian Romance Readers Award for favourite romantic suspense. When Darcy Fletcher drags a handsome sailor from a stricken yacht, she finds herself drawn into his mysterious world. Having saved his life, can she now rescue him from his dark past? Or will that endanger all she...

Xu Xi’s body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city’s enduring...

The ripple effects of the First World War came at an inopportune time for the infant Chinese republic. The country had joined a number of international organisations and ratified the Hague Conventions, but found its diplomatic efforts hampered by its young, inexperienced leadership, its factional...

'I was Humpty Dumpty at the bottom of the wall, my heart and the very soul of me shattered into a thousand pieces.� I knew that my life was never going to be the same again.� I also knew that if I did not get professional help, I'd soon be dead.' Allan Sparkes didn't think twice about rescuing...

When a brothel madam is shot on a Perth golf course in 1975 it should be a routine murder enquiry. But it isn't. In fact there's barely an investigation at all, and Superintendent Swann thinks he knows why. Heroin is the new drug in town and the money is finding its way into some very respectable...