Author: Tony Jones

Maxine McKew selects and introduces the best political analysis of events that have shaped the past year. From the war to Iraq to the AWB scandal, the end of Kim Beazley to the Palm Island death in custody, this is a diverse and compelling collection which includes writing by the leading commentators and opinion-makers ...

Author: Anne Enright

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointme ...

Author: Sandy Blackburn-Wright

This astonishing autobiographical work is the story of a young Australian woman's complex love affair with Africa and its people. Sandy Blackburn-Wright lived and worked in South Africa between 1988 and 2003 - years coinciding with some of the nation's most tumultuous and significant events, including the release of Ne ...

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: 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: Peter Carey

'When the boy was almost eight a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East 62nd Street and he recognized her straight away. It was the smell his heart knew - patchouli, jasmine, other stuff... That was pretty typical of growing up with Grandma Selkirk. No one would dream of saying, here is your mothe ...

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: 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: Camilla Noli

In the suburbs, a young mother is looking after her two children. She has been a successful career woman in control of her life and used to attracting her husband's undivided attention. But now her control is slipping away. Motherhood is devouring her life.

Author: Jill Mansell

A sweet, funny and romantic novel from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller. Lola has no intention of accepting when her boyfriend Dougie's snobbish mother offers her 10,000 to break up with him. Then she discovers a secret that makes her think again. Dougie would probably have broken up with her in the long run, and this ...

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.

Author: Bill Granger

Bill Granger's Holiday is a vibrant partner to the best-selling Every Day, continuing the exciting format of reportage style photography, personal chapter introductions and Bill's trademark contemporary, stylish recipes. This is a book about laying down lifetime memories through food, taking time out to cook at leisure ...

Author: John Buchanan

In his first book, Buchanan brings his innovative style, his Leadership principles and his visionary drive to the wider community. He has written a book not only for the sports fan, but for anyone who would like an insight into achieving real, long-lasting success, whatever their field of endeavour.

Author: Geraldine Brooks

People of the Book crosses continents and centuries to bring stories of hope amidst darkness, compassion amidst cruelty, all bound together by the discoveries made by a young Australian woman restoring an ancient Hebrew book. When Hanna Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a precious m ...