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...
Tales From The Sea Of Thieves
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...
Emily Eyefinger and the Secret from the Sea
More fun adventures from Emily, the girl who was born with an eye on the end of her finger which, when you are into solving mysteries, can prove to be very handy indeed! Ages: 7+ In these thrilling new adventures, Emily the girl with an eye on the end of her finger is chased by mysterious gargoyles in Paris, rescues a runaway movie star, disguises herself as a baby elephant to catch ...
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 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...
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 ...
The Sea Witch - Three Novellas
Airplanes, adventures, life and death in the skies: The Sea Witch brings together three dramatic tales from three periods of history of men and women at war: The Sea Witch: A rookie WW2 seaplane pilot is thrown in at the deep end on a mission to locate a missing colleague during the Battle of Guadalcanal. The 17th Day: Seventeen days is the average life expectancy of a British aviator during...
Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves - A Scarecrow Novel 4
The edge-of-your-seat bestseller from Australias favourite novelist BOOK 4 IN THE SCARECROW SERIES Matthew Reilly is the king of hard-core action. Brad Thor, New York Times bestselling author of Full Black A former Soviet base known only as Dragon Island houses a weapon of terrible destructive force
that has just been re-activated. The island has been seized by a brutal terrorist for...
Gift from the Sea
Quietly powerful and a great help. Glorious Emma Thompson Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. First published in 1955 and an instant bestseller, Gift from the Sea is a classic, wise book for women about how to flourish in life, how to balance life, work, motherhood; about finding space to think and breathe. Holidaying by the sea, and taking insp...
To The Sea
To the Sea is the stunning saga from debut author Christine Dibley. To The Sea is a call to the sea passed on from mother to daughter
lyrical, evocative and deeply engrossing. Australian Arts Review A dangerous yearning echoes through generations. On a clear summers day, Detective Inspector Tony Vincent answers a call-out to an idyllic Tasmanian beach house.Surrounded by family and calm...
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...
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...
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA tells of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call ojectivity. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ships officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he...
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 ...
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 Life and Love of the Sea
Combining images from worlds leading marine and nature photographers and the latest in underwater photography techniques, The Life & Love of the Sea is a breathtaking visual tour of the oceans many facets. Readers will experience the land meeting the sea with images of dramatic coastlines, barrier reefs and island chains, and the breathtaking power of the ocean through a stunning collection of...
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...
Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves
At an abandoned Soviet base in the Arctic,a battle to save all life on Earth is about to begin
THE SECRET BASE It is a top-secret base known only as Dragon Island. A long-forgotten relic of the Cold War, it houses a weapon of terrible destructive force, a weapon that has just been re-activated
AN ARMY OF MURDERERS When Dragon Island is seized by a brutal terrorist force calling itself the Army o...
The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curies reputuation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? The periodic table is one of our crowning scientific achievements, but its also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, betrayal and obsession. T...
The Box - Tales from the Darkroom
In this delightful sequel to Peeling the Onion, G nter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives. Memories contradictory, critical, loving, accusatory they piece together an intimate picture of this most public of men. To say nothing of M...