From Cradle to Stage - Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars
From Cradle to Stage - Stories from the Mothers Who Roc...
Virginia Grohl, mother of Dave Grohl, had not seen any of it...

Flak - True Stories from the Men who Flew in World War Two
Flak - True Stories from the Men who Flew in World War ...
Michael Veitch’s life-long obsession with the aircraft of t...

From Lullabies to Literature: Stories in the Lives of Infancts and Toddlers
From Lullabies to Literature: Stories in the Lives of I...
From Lullabies to Literature: Stories in the Lives of Infanc...

Too Scared To Cry - And other true stories from the nation's favourite foster carer
Too Scared To Cry - And other true stories from the nat...
A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering s...

The Ghosts Who Danced - and other spooky stories
The Ghosts Who Danced - and other spooky stories
Unique, illustrated collection of ghost stories for children...

Headstrong Daughters - Inspiring Stories from the New Generation of Australian Muslim Women
Headstrong Daughters - Inspiring Stories from the New G...
How would you feel, as a guest, about sitting in a suburban ...

Sharp Ends - Stories from the World of The First Law
Sharp Ends - Stories from the World of The First Law
The Union army may be full of bastards, but there’s only on...

The Near and the Far - new stories from the Asia-Pacific region
The Near and the Far - new stories from the Asia-Pacifi...
From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes...

Usborne Illustrated Stories from the Greek Myths
Usborne Illustrated Stories from the Greek Myths
A fantastic compendium, this wonderful collection of Greek m...

Far from the Tree - Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Far from the Tree - Parents, Children, and the Search f...
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Books fo...

The First Christmas and Other Bible Stories From the New Testament
The First Christmas and Other Bible Stories From the Ne...
A beautiful cloth-bound gift edition containing 16 of the be...

Doctor Who: The Day She Saved the Doctor - Four Stories from the TARDIS
Doctor Who: The Day She Saved the Doctor - Four Stories...
A companion: explores time and space with the Doctor, gets i...

National Geographic Angry Birds - 50 True Stories of the Fed Up, Feathered, and Furious
National Geographic Angry Birds - 50 True Stories of th...
This hilariously eye-popping book showcases real-world angry...

The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology - True stories from the world's best writers
The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology - True stories from ...
Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher ...

From Cradle To Stage - Stories From The Mothers Who Rocked And Ra

Wastelands - Wastelands Stories of the Apocalypse

“Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”, the harbingers of Armageddon these are our guides through the Wastelands…From the “Book of Revelations” to “The Road Warrior”; from “A Canticle for Leibowitz” to “The Road”, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-ap...

The Mothers' Group

‘All those things no one ever tells you about motherhood. It’s like secret mothers’ business. Lots of my friends had babies before me, but not one of them ever told me it would be this hard.It’s like a code of silence.’ The Mothers’ Group tells the story of six very different women who agree to regularly meet soon after the births of their babies. Set during the first crucial year of their...

The First Christmas and Other Bible Stories From the New Testament

A beautiful cloth-bound gift edition containing 16 of the best-known New Testament stories retold for children, by Enid Blyton, one of the world’s best-loved storytellers. The perfect Christmas gift. ’Enid Blyton’s retelling of Christ’s own stories and the meaning of His time on Earth is full of love – Christ’s love for us, our love for each other – and Enid’s caring and timeless love for...

Cover Me - The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time

From the creator of the popular website covermesongs.com comes the perfect book for music fans: the inside stories behind 20 iconic cover songs and the artists who turned them into classics. A great cover only makes a song stronger – Jimi Hendrix’s version of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower”; the Beatles rocking out with “Twist and Shout.”; Aretha Franklin demanding “Respect.” Wit...

The Camel Who Crossed Australia

Third in Jackie French’s Animal Stars series, featuring the animals who contributed to history’s most famous events. the story of the famous Burke and Wills expedition … as it has never been told before the humans called him ‘Bell Sing’, but to the other camels he is known as ‘He Who Spits Further than the Wind’. transported from the mountains and deserts of the ‘Northwest Frontier’ (p...

Illustrated Stories from Aesop

This new collection of Aesop’s fables is sumptuously illustrated by Giuliano Ferri and presented as a hardback gift edition to be read again and again A fully illustrated collection of more than thirty of Aesop’s timeless fables, retold specially for children, including ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’, ‘The Boy who Cried Wolf’ and ‘The Lion and the Mouse’. This luxury, cloth-bound gift edi...

We Are Our Brains - From the Womb to Alzheimer's

Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes our potential, our desires and our characters. Taking us through every stage in our lives, from the womb to falling in love to old age, Dick Swaab shows that we don’t just have brains: we are our brains. ‘A blockbuster about the brain … provocative, fascinating, remarkable’ Cliv...

The Mothers - A Novel

The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community – and the things that ultimately haunt us most. It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, 17-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results fro...

The Horse Who Bit a Bushranger

An exciting new tale of a brumby, a boy and a bushranger in the Animal Stars series. (Book 5) Ages: 9 – 13 A story of survival, second chances … and a dance with danger. Young Billy Marks is a pickpocket, transported to the penal colony of New South Wales. He and his mate reckon they’ll become bushrangers- but that’s before Billy’s had a chance to see the bush up close. And when he buys th...

Dingo - The Dog Who Conquered a Continent

Jackie French’s critically acclaimed and best-selling ANIMAL STARS series looks at history through the eyes of an animal. Ages: 9-13 All of Australia’s dingoes may be descended from one south-east Asian ‘rubbish dog’ who arrived here over 5,000 years ago. this is a story about the first dingo. It is also the story of Loa, who heads off across the sea in his canoe when the girl he loves ma...

The Mothers

The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community – and the things that ultimately haunt us most. It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, 17-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results fro...

Besieged - Stories from the Iron Druid Chronicles

***OVER A MILLION COPIES OF THE IRON DRUID BOOKS SOLD*** ’American Gods meets Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden’ SFF World Discover this action-packed collection of short stories featuring Atticus O’Sullivan – the two-thousand-year-old tattooed Irishman with extraordinary powers from Kevin Hearne’s New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles. - In ancient Egypt, Atticus raids a secret cham...

The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 11 - True Stories from Around the World

Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized national leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the tenth in that series-The Best Women’s Travel Writing-pr...

From Brilliant & Broke to Inspired & Abundant - Inspiring Stories from Ordinary People with an Extraordinary Desire to C...

Have you ever asked yourself: ‘With all my training, knowledge, skills, background, attributes and brilliance …why am I still broke?’ Countless people find themselves in this same position, feeling broke both financially and physically, both spiritually and in their relationships. When you feel you’ve hit rock bottom, how do you get back up again? From Brilliant & Broke to Inspired & Abundant ...

Cricket's Strangest Matches - Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of cricket

Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of cricket Cricket’s Strangest Tales is a fascinating collection of cricketing weirdness – and there’s a lot of it to choose from! Within these pages you’ll find a game that was played on ice, meet a plague of flying ants who failed to dampen players’ enthusiasm, and examples of the grand old tradition of one-armed teams versus one-legged te...

Running with the Pack - Thoughts From the Road on Meaning and Mortality

‘Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.’ Mark Rowlands has run for most of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. And for him the two – running and philosophising – are inextricably connected. In Running with the Pack he tells us about the most significant runs of his life – from the entire day he spent running as a bo...

The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories - The Collected Ghost Stories of Susan Hill

‘No one chills the blood like Susan Hill’ Daily Telegraph From the horrifying secret of Eel Marsh House in The Woman in Black to the supernatural terror unleashed by spiteful Leonora van Vorst in Dolly and the deadly danger posed by Professor Parmitter’s painting of Venice in The Man in the Picture, Susan Hill’s ghost stories never fail to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and keep you...

From the Earth to the Shadows

From the Earth to the Shadows is the epic sequel to Between the Blade and the Heart, a gripping adventure of duty versus romance from Amanda Hocking, author of the Trylle trilogy and the Kanin Chronicles. Malin’s mission to avenge her mother’s murder has uncovered dangerous secrets. As a Valkyrie-in-training, Malin must slay immortals who’ve had their time, to maintain balance between humans a...

Far from the Tree - Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Books for a Better Life Award, and one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2012, this masterpiece by the National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children, but also find profound meaning in doing so—“a brave, beautiful book that will ...

The Near and the Far - new stories from the Asia-Pacific region

From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them. It’s a sweltering night in Kuala Lumpur, and a journalist is protesting in a city on the edge of meltdown. It’s post-9/11 San Francisco, and a woman meets her foster child, who provokes painful reminders of her past. It’s contemporary Bangkok, and a writer’s encount...

Usborne Illustrated Stories from the Greek Myths

A fantastic compendium, this wonderful collection of Greek myths taken from “Usborne Young Reading” titles is a thrilling and informative read. Featuring the best-known of all the Greek heroes and monsters, with six stories starring Perseus and Medusa, Pegasus, Heracles, Odysseus, the Wooden Horse and the Minotaur. A section after the stories gives more details on the various gods and other Gree...