Symphony of Seduction - The Great Love Stories of Class...
Berlioz should know. He didnt just hear the symphony when ...
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from ...
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekh...
Catherine the Great and Potemkin - The Imperial Love Af...
One of the great love stories of history, in a league with...
Into The Woods - How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
We all love stories. But why do we tell them? And why do all...
Great ANZAC Stories - The Men and Women Who Created the...
These stories show the overwhelming blood and honour, hero...
Great Australian Stories - Legends, Yarns and Tall Tale...
Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wander...
Oliver Twist and Other Great Dickens Stories
A selection of the works of one of the worlds greatest wri...
Really Useful Stories: The Great Rescue - Really Useful...
When Whiskers the kitten is lost on Sodor, Thomas asks his f...
The Great Australian Cookbook - The Food We Love from 1...
The ultimate celebration of Australia and the food we love t...
Catherine the Great - Portrait of a Woman
Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biograp...
The Great Catsby (Classic Tails 2) - Beautifully illust...
CLASSIC TAILS the greatest works of literature, as told b...
Valour and Violets - South Australia in the Great War
Close to 35,000 South Australians enlisted for service overs...
Symphony Of Seduction - The Great Love Stories Of Classical Compo
Carving a History: a Guide to the Great Court
This comprehensive guide to the sandstone centrepiece of The University of Queenslandâs St Lucia campus â the Great Court â navigates the reader effortlessly through the siteâs iconic carvings and their history.Carving a History: a Guide to the Great Court is a major update and restructure of the existing publication A Guide to the Great Court; first produced by UQ's Media and ...
The Great Shame
The eagerly-awaited paperback of an incredible work of history, h social injustice and survival
a grandly conceived and prodigiously researched homage to his Irish forebears The Age
the range and coverage of this material is impressive
his zest is infectious Sydney Morning Herald
engaging and meticulously compiled Australian Financial Review In the nineteenth century, the Ir...
Catherine the Great - Portrait of a Woman
[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.The Wall Street Journal The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, ...
Great ANZAC Stories - The Men and Women Who Created the Digger Legend
These stories show the overwhelming blood and honour, heroism and horror that was the Australian experience on our cruellest shores. Peter FitzSimons Accessible, short, often fresh tales capture the spirit and sentiment of Anzac. Roland Perry Over the years, the experiences of soldiers at war become the stuff of legend: tales of great bravery, battlefield wins, and also the tragic ...
Catherine the Great and Potemkin - The Imperial Love Affair
One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra
Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair Economist It was historys most successful political partnership as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin wil...
Asterix: Omnibus 8 - Asterix and the Great Crossing, Obelix and Co, Asterix in Belgium
In this special collectors edition, books 22 to 24 are brought together in one fabulous volume. In ASTERIX AND THE GREAT CROSSING, a storm blows Asterix and Obelix off course. Luckily they land on the shores of a Roman colony or is it? Teepees, totems, gobbling birds: its not what theyre used to. Julius Caesar sends Caius Preposterus, graduate of the Latin School of Economics, to corru...
The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell - Book 1
Alex and Conner Baileys world is about to change.When the twins grandmother gives them a treasured fairy-tale book, they have no idea theyre about to enter a land beyond all imagining: the Land of Stories, where fairy tales are real.But as Alex and Conner soon discover, the stories they know so well havent ended in this magical land Goldilocks is now a wanted fugitive, Red Riding Hood h...
Gilbert the Great
From the time Gilbert the Great White Shark was a tiny pup, Raymond the Remora stuck to him like glue. Raymond was always on Gilberts side. Then one day, Gilbert wakes up to discover that Raymond has gone. Mrs Munch does everything she can to help her little shark come to terms with his loss and slowly but surely Gilbert learns to smile a wobbly smile through his sadness. He knows that...
The 5 Love Languages Military Edition - The Secret to Love That Lasts
Advice for military couplesAs soon as I arrived in Afghanistan, I began reading The 5 Love Languages®. I had never read anything so simple yet so profound. Anonymous soldier If you are in a military relationship, you know the strain of long deployments, lonely nights, and difficult transitions. For extraordinary challenges like these, couples need specific advice.In this updated edition of...
Ghost on the Throne - The Death of Alexander the Great
When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirsa mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his deathwere jointly granted the kingship. But six of Alexanders Macedonian generals, spurred by their own th...
The Great Fire of London
With ones face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops A selection from Pepys startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many c...
The Great Book of Tea
This is the third book in the best selling The Great Book of
series. Perhaps more than any country, we Brits love our cup of tea. Our day revolves around the morning cuppa, tea breaks, the decadent pleasure of Afternoon Tea, and theres always teatime to look forward to. We hold tea parties, adore tea shops and tea is our first call in time of crisis, not forgetting the pleasure of putting ...
The Great World
Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other peoples battles from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy yea...
Lara - The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago
The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya the true tragedy behind `Dr Zhivago. `Doctor Zhivago has sold in its millions yet the true love story that inspired it has never been fully explored. Pasternak would often say `Lara exists, go and meet her, directing his visitors to the love of his life and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. They met in 194...
The Complete Short Stories - Volume Two
The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes. Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child and, with a little smile, he sticks the knife in both Anthony Horowitz, from his introduction Roald Dahl is one of the worlds most popular writers, equally at home writing for both children and adults. In this, the second of two vo...
Great Australian Stories - Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales
Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseters Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters are ready to tell their stories. From the foreword by Warren Fahey Australia has a rich tradi...
Betoota's Australia - a guide to the Great Southern Land by arguably Australia's oldest newspaper
A relatively comprehensive guide to the Great Southern Land by arguably Australias oldest newspaper. Now in its 11th edition, this full-colour guide to contemporary Australia has been touted as the most comprehensive insight into the lucky country since Microsofts Encarta. Initially written for those venturing for the first time beyond Betootas city limits, Betootas Australia has become t...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The first book in a new series that will explore Australias role in the Great War.From the earliest days of the Great War, Australians volunteered to fight in the air warfares newest arena, and one that would transform the nature of military operations. In the squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps and with Britains flying services, Australian airmen fought in campaigns that spanned the...
The Best Australian Stories 2017
In The Best Australian Stories; acclaimed writer Maxine Beneba Clarke brings together our countryâs leading literary talents. An award-winning short-story writer herself; Clarke selects exceptional stories that resonate with experience and truth; and celebrate the art of storytelling.Previous contributors include Fiona McFarlane; Kate Grenville; Tony Birch; David Malouf; Kirsten Tra...
Leman Russ - The Great Wolf
The second title in The Horus Heresy: Primarchs series, a brand new sequence of novels from Black Library. Many are the sagas of Leman Russ, Lord of Winter and War, most fearsome of the Emperors primarch sons. At the height of the Great Crusade, his Space Wolves fight to bring the rebel world of Dulan to compliance. Enraged by the defiance of the tyrant Durath, Russ has pledged to strike him dow...
Symphony of Seduction - The Great Love Stories of Classical Composers
Berlioz should know. He didnt just hear the symphony when he fell in love with an Irish actress back in 1827, he wrote it. What was love like for the people who could really feel that song coming on? Symphony of Seduction tells of the romantic misadventures, tragedies and occasional triumphs of some of classical musics great composers, and traces the music that emerged as a result. For the ...