Author: Lisa Forrest

Swimming star Lisa Forrest was only sixteen years old when she found herself at the centre of one of Australia's most significant sporting and political moments, the controversial boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. In this meticulously researched and compellingly written book, Li ...

Author: Arnold Zable

In Sea of Many Returns, master storyteller Arnold Zable delivers a cavalcade of stories, characters and places. He takes us to the island of Ithaca, the Ionian Sea, Kalgoorlie and Melbourne, as well as Port Said, the Black Sea and Danube River ports. Mentor leaves Ithaca in 1916, a young man, and arrives in Kalgoorlie. ...

Author: Jodi Picoult

One day June Nealon was happily anticipating a lifetime of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. Waiting for a miracle to happen.For Shay Bourne, life h ...

Author: James Halliday

This is the numer one bestselling guide to wineries and wine in Australia. Keenly anticipated by winemakers, faithful collectors and wine lovers like, the 2009 edition has been completely revised and updated to bring you up-to-the-minute information.

Author: Tobie Puttock

Italian Local celebrates the joys of Italian cooking and local produce. Tobie Puttock gathers together 100 of his favourite Italian-inspired recipes, and shows us how to achieve authentic Italian flavours wherever we live.Convinced that 'cooking and eating should be about nurturing the soul as well as the body', Tobie

Author: Emma McEwin

Perhaps most widely known as the face of Australia's early $100 note, Australian Douglas Mawson was a contemporary of the better known Robert Scott & a rival in the race to the South Pole. Outlines his background, engagement to the impressive Paquita, and his superhuman survival alone and on foot in the Antarctic wilde ...

Author: Benjamin Genocchio

Explores how the Aboriginal art movement, born of isolation and deprivation in one of the remotest and harshest places on earth, has in little more than 30 years become a newly minted coin in the international art market, with paintings being exhibited and collected in Paris, Los Angeles and New York.

Author: Graham Sharp Paul

A young officer finds himself plunged into interstellar intrigue and an all-out battle against dangerous spaceship hijackers in the thrilling first novel of a new series by a dazzling new military sci-fi author in the tradition of David Weber. Original.

Author: Paul Ham

This extraordinary, sweeping account, draws on hundreds of unpublished sources and itnerviews with soldiers, politicians, medical practitioners, aid providers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people to reconstruct the epic history of a campaign that disfigured a :country and divided the world, nations, families and fri ...

Author: Peter Cosgrove

This book takes the reader behind the scenes: Cosgrove as a young military recruit at Duntroon, his early duty in Malaysia and Vietnam, where he won the military cross and, most famously, his time in East Timor.