Random House Australia: 1821 books

Life, Death and Addiction Inside Afghanistan's Opium Trade The farmer's survival. The Taliban's fight. The warlord's power. Democracy's ruin. Afghanistan has become the world's largest producer of opium and its offshoot, heroin - all under the noses of Western civil and military stakeholders....

Andrew 'Boy' Charlton is one of our all-time greatest swimming champions. With a Foreword by Grant Hackett. Andrew 'Boy' Charlton set his first world record as a school boy. He became an Olympic and World Champion in the 1500m swim, and like Grant Hackett, in a number of shorter distances....

Desperate Housewives meets Sex and the City! Give yourself a treat with two hilariously satirical novels from Australian chick-lit author Cate Kendall. GUCCI MAMAS Once a down-to-earth girl, Mim Woolcott wakes up one day and realises she is keeping Prada, Louis Vuitton and numerous day spas...

The final book in the Max Remy Superspy series promises explosive action and a thrilling ride! While Spyforce agents celebrate 50 years of fighting crime at a lavish party, a small, deadly device pulses in the floor beneath them. The next day during a spy training session in a secluded forest...

Autobiography of the most successful driver in Australian motorsport history He is the most successful driver in Australian motorsport history. One of the icons of the sport, ultimately a Holden hero after starting his career with Nissan: but there is much more to Mark Skaife than just that....

Money couldn't buy a better police force . . . Corruption, prostitution, gambling, bent coppers, crooked politicians, honest crims. It's all in a day's work. Set against the backdrop of the Askin government with events revolving around notorious crime identities Dick Reilly, Lennie McPherson...

'Diving was a boys-own adventure, a jump into the unknown full of devil-may-care attitudes. It welcomed you with one hand and cast you asunder with the other. It was a hideous bitch goddess and it drank the blood of the unprepared.' Since his low-key upbringing, Hugh 'Obi' O'Brien's life has...

Alice Campion is the pseudonym for five members of a Sydney book club who challenged themselves to write a '21st Century Thorn Birds'. The result is a captivating rural novel, brimming with romance, mystery and suspense. Nina never knew what happened to her father, the celebrated artist Jim...

'Required reading for all men over 50, plus their partners.' Dr James Wright More than 2000 Australian men die of prostate cancer each year. Many thousands more - without knowing - suffer from its effects. Surviving Prostate Cancer is one of the first personal and medical accounts of this common...

An extraordinary personal journey through cancer and treatment. "...Extraordinary...Its bravery, irony, humour and intelligence - everything shines through the transparent prose...a remarkable literary voice, or melding of three voices--the autobiographical, the poetic, and the allegorical."...

A life with little illness and pain, being well, without doctors or hospitals - it's all possible. Wellness is the mantra for a healthier, happier and calmer life. Startlingly simple but deeply powerful, Dr Craig Hassed's manual for a healthier, happier and calmer life shows that wellness,...

Thirteen luxury hotels, five months... no money.For Tiana Templeman, travel has always meant hiking boots and hostels, so when she wins a trip for two to stay at thirteen of the world's most exclusive five-star hotels, it sounds like the chance of a lifetime, an opportunity to see how the other half...

A captivating short story of one man's journey into a cult and out the other side by bestselling author, Caroline Overington... Paul Bannerman is the newly elected deputy premier of Victoria, and he has a story to tell. For politics hasn't always been his life. Thirty years ago he was...

A compelling, inspiring and moving collection of Barbara Holborow's stories of hope, loss and apathy from behind the Bench as Children's Magistrate. In this inspiring, moving and often funny collection of stories, bestselling author Barbara Holborow tells of The Good, the Bad and The Inevitable...