Good Losers Die Broke - A Lifetime of Tales from the Tr...
Melbourne Mick Bartley wasnt big noting when he described ...
Tales From The Darkside: Scripts By Joe Hill
The storied history of TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE winds ever da...
Tales From The Darkside: Scripts By Joe Hill
The storied history of TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE winds ever da...
Good Losers Die Broke - A Lifetime Of Tales From The Track
Tales From Outer Suburbia
Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street, or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass? Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?A new picture book from the international award-winning illustrator Shaun Tan, Tales from Outer Suburbia is a unique and inspiring collection of original stories and illustrations.Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, The Lost Th...
The Key - The heartwrenching new pageturner from the #1 bestselling author of The Letter
From the #1 bestselling author of The Letter Kathryn Hughes comes The Key, an unforgettable story of a heartbreaking secret that will stay with you for ever. Riveting Lesley Pearse on The Letter. Gripping Good Housekeeping on The Secret. 1956 Its Ellen Crosbys first day at work as a student nurse at Ambergate County Lunatic Asylum. When she meets a young girl committed by her father,...
From the Inside - Chopper 1
Apart from Irish whiskey, good cigars, Pontiac motor cars, and a pistol grip baby .410 shotgun with solid load shells, what I love the most is kidnapping smartarse gangsters and taking their money. To the human filth I have bashed, belted, iron barred, axed, shot, stabbed, knee capped, set on fire and driven to their graves, I can only quote from the motto of the French Foreign Legion, Je Ne R...
Tales of the Honey Badger
Cummins has a cult hero notoriety not seen with any other Australian sport star in the last 25 years Fox Sports Hes put pen to paper and has been busier than a one-armed bricklayer in Baghdad Nick Cummins is writing his opus, his tome his first book. Packed with Nicks sensational sayings, ripper yarns and pure Aussie wisdom, TALES OF THE HONEY BADGER is a charming collection of s...
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm - The Complete First Edition
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Childrens and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Cinderella would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would...
Murphy's Lore - Tales From The West
Bob Murphy footballer, music fan, dog walker, coffee drinker, hand shaker, train traveller and tree lover has been a favourite of footy followers for many a year. Now captain of his beloved Western Bulldogs, hes showing the young pups at the Kennel how to play the great game the right way. Collected here for the first time are the best of Bobs much-loved weekly ne...
The Secret - A gripping novel of how far a mother would go for her child from the #1 author of The Letter
Riveting Lesley Pearse on The Letter. Gripping Good Housekeeping on The Secret. From the #1 bestselling author of The Letter comes The Secret a powerful, twisting novel that you wont be able to put down. Mary has been nursing a secret. Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path of someone she holds dear. Beth is searching for ans...
Tales from a Bondi Vet - An international hit TV series
As the son of a country vet, animals have been a part of Dr Chris Browns life for as long as he can remember so its not surprising that he has followed in his fathers veterinary footsteps. But Chriss life has one twist his dad never had to deal with
a TV camera crew following him around to capture the day-to-day life of an urban vet. Tales from a Bondi Vet is based on the hit Australia...
Two from the Heart
From the bestselling author of Sundays at Tiffanys, two heart-warming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to lifes possibilities. Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage falls apart and a hurricane destroys her home she realises that her life has fallen out of focus. So she takes to the road to ask long lost friends and strangers a simple question- Whats...
Business Adventures - Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street: The New York Times bestseller Bill Gates calls...
The best business book Ive ever read. Bill Gates, Wall Street Journal The Michael Lewis of his day. New York Times What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular ...
You Only Live Once - A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in all of us
Lonely Planet: The worlds leading travel guide publisher You Only Live Once: A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in All of Us is not just another bucketlist of big-ticket items. Weve all heard about Venice and, yes, it is probably worth going to Italy to see its waterways, but hopefully youll take away something more from this book: a resolve to live life to the fullestto add a da...
There's More to Life Than This - Healing Messages, Remarkable Stories, and Insight About the Other Side from the Long Is...
The always funny, frank, and down-to-earth medium began communicating with Spirit at the age of four, but didnt fully accept her gift until she was thirty-three years old. Since then shes used her extraordinary gift to help people heal from the loss of their loved ones. A New York Times bestseller, Theres More to Life Than This lends insight on how Theresas mediumship works, what happens...
You Only Live Once - A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in all of us
Lonely Planet: The worlds leading travel guide publisher You Only Live Once: A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in All of Us is not just another bucketlist of big-ticket items. Weve all heard about Venice and, yes, it is probably worth going to Italy to see its waterways, but hopefully youll take away something more from this book: a resolve to live life to the fullestto add a da...
Brilliance of the Moon - Book 3 Tales of the Otori
Now released with stunning new cover artwork, BRILLIANCE OF THE MOON is Book 3 in the five-part Tales of the Otori series. The best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman. INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Otori Takeos future is uncertain. If he is to reclaim his Otori heritage, he must fight for it but his army is untrained and Takeo, despite his l...
Plain Tales From The Raj - Images of British India in the 20th Century
The Raj was, for 200 years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called benign autocracy the government of many by few, with the active collaboration of most Indians in recognition of a desire for the advancement of their country. Charles Allens classic oral history...
Teachers' Strangest Tales - Extraordinary but true tales from over five centuries of teaching
A fascinating collection of bizarre tales from classrooms throughout history. A hilarious assortment of the weirdest and wackiest tales ever to come out of the classroom and theyre all true. Featuring the flamboyant swimming teacher who spent his spare time fighting bears, the story of how a fight with his teacher paved the way for Al Capones infamous crime empire, and the bizarre tale o...
Good Losers Die Broke - A Lifetime of Tales from the Track
Melbourne Mick Bartley wasnt big noting when he described $6000 in 1976 as toilet paper. To call him a punter wasnt sufficient. Nobody played horses better in roles as a commission agent, SP bookmaker and master architect of betting coups. But the punt giveth and the punt taketh away
From copy boy at the Sydney Sun to his current weekly column for Fairfax, Max Presnell has lived, breathed a...
The Woman in the Wood - A missing teenager. An outcast woman in the woods. And a girl determined to find the truth. From...
Fifteen-year-old twins Maisy and Duncan Mitcham have always had each other. Until the fateful day in the wood . . . One night in 1960, the twins awake to find their father pulling their screaming mother from the house. She is to be committed to an asylum. It is, so their father insists, for her own good. Its not long before they, too, are removed from their London home and sent to Nighting...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carres The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by the author and an introduction by William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart. Alex Leamas is tired. Its the 1960s, hes been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the ...
Tales from the Hood (The Sisters Grimm #6) - 10th Anniversary Edition
More in the New York Times bestselling series! More than 500,000 copies of the series in print! The Grimms defend Mr. Canis in Ferryport Landings trial of the century! This book sees Mr. Canis, dear friend and protector of the Grimm family, put on trial for past crimes. Considering that hes really the Big Bad Wolf, he has a lot to answer for. Is there any truth to the story told by Little Red ...
Tales From Watership Down
Tales From Watership Down is the enchanting sequel to Richard Adamss bestselling Watership Down, the enduring classic of contemporary literature that introduced millions of readers to a vivid and distinctive world. Here, he returns to the delightful characters we know and love including Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion, and the legendary rabbit hero El-ahrairah and presents new heroes as th...