The Stories Julian Tells
The Stories Julian Tells
Relates episodes in seven-year-old Julian’s life which incl...

Environment: The Science behind the Stories: Global Edition
Environment: The Science behind the Stories: Global Edi...
Environment: The Science behind the Stories continues to rev...

Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else - The stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names
Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else - The stories behind Aust...
The stories behind Australia’s many, many strange, inapprop...

Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories with MasteringEnvironmentalScience
Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories w...
Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories with M...

Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories
Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories
Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories - Univ...

Environment: The Science behind the Stories
Environment: The Science behind the Stories
Environment: The Science behind the Stories - University tex...

Environment: The Science behind the Stories, Global Edition
Environment: The Science behind the Stories, Global Edi...
Environment: The Science behind the Stories, Global Edition ...

Symbols of Australia: Uncovering the Stories Behind Australia's Best-loved Symbols
Symbols of Australia: Uncovering the Stories Behind Aus...
Symbols of Australia: Uncovering the Stories Behind Australi...

Voices From the Air - The ABC war correspondents who told the stories of Australians in the Second World War
Voices From the Air - The ABC war correspondents who to...
An untold tale of Australians at war: the first ABC war corr...

Voices From The Air - The ABC war correspondents who told the stories of Australians in the Second World War
Voices From The Air - The ABC war correspondents who to...
With the outbreak of the Second World War, a new breed of re...

Cover Me - The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time
Cover Me - The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs ...
From the creator of the popular website covermesongs.com com...

A Child's Introduction To Greek Mythology - The Stories of the Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, Monsters, and Other Mythical Creatures
A Child's Introduction To Greek Mythology - The Stories...
The newest book in Black Dog’s best-selling, award-winning ...

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived - The Stories in Our Genes
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived - The Storie...
‘A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introd...

Roar - The stories behind AFLW - a movement bigger than sport
Roar - The stories behind AFLW - a movement bigger than...
’When a football ground was electrified on that unforgettab...

The Stories Julian Tells

The Complete Short Fiction

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners – the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde’s name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral justice is comically inverted in ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’ and ‘The Canterville Ghost’, and society’s materialism comes under sharp, humorous critici...

The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

In the final years of his life, Chekhov had reached the height of his powers as a dramatist, and also produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces. The poignant ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’ and ‘About Love’ examine the nature of love outside of marriage – its romantic idealism and the fear of disillusionment. And in stories such as ‘Peasants’, ‘The House with the Mezzani...

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...

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...

Outsiders - Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists – Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf – and their famous novels.We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the genius they share. ‘Outsider’, ‘outlaw’, ‘outcast’: a woman’s reputation was her security a...

Jumping to Heaven - Stories about refugee children

Neary plunged her hand into the bag and pulled out two long elastic chains. ‘It’s a Cambodian game,’ she said. ‘It’s called Jumping to the Heavens. You must jump very high. But don’t worry. If you have trouble, I’ll jump and save you.’ The stories in Jumping to Heaven are based on the true experiences of refugee children who have migrated to Australia. Their stories are sad, scary, though...

You Think It, I'll Say It - Stories

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD- ‘Do-Over’, one of the stories in this dazzling first collection by Curtis Sittenfeld. In ‘The World Has Many Butterflies’, a married woman flirts with a man she meets at parties by playing You think it, I’ll say it, putting into words the bitchy things she guesses he’s thinking about their fellow guests. But she is in for a shock...

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

“Give me a dollar or I’ll spit on you.” Meet Bradley Chalkers. He’s the oldest child in the class. He tells ENORMOUS lies. He picks fights with girls. The teachers say he has `serious behaviour problems’. And no one likes him … Except Carla, the new school counsellor. She thinks Bradley is sensitive and generous, and she even enjoys his far-fetched stories. Carla knows that Bradley could c...

The Spook's Stories - Witches

This is a fabulous collection of stories based on many of the witches from Joseph Delaney’s Spooks books. ver wondered why the Spook doesn’t trust girls who wear pointy shoes? r why Grimalkin became the Assassin for the Malkin Witch clan? ind out all this and more in this a dark and eerie collection. You don’t have to know the Spook’s books to enjoy the stories. They’re all standalone and abs...

The Underdogs

The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk: felled at age 24 by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as a ventilator-dependent patient; she was rejected by every service dog agency in the country as “too disabled.” Her nurse encouraged her to raise her own service dog; and Ben; a German shepherd revived her.A thousand dogs later; Karen Shirk's service dog academy; 4 Paws for Ab...

Enid Blyton's Christmas Tales - Contains 25 classic stories

Enid Blyton’s timeless collection of Christmas stories – an ideal gift for anyone who loved the stories during their own childhood to pass on to the next generation of readers. Enid Blyton’s Christmas Stories was so popular that readers asked for another collection – and here it is! Nobody captures the spirit of Christmas like Enid Blyton, and in these stories – which are perfect for reading...

The Dragon's Teeth - Book 9

At last, Troy seems within reach for Atticus the Storyteller, who has been travelling through the ancient world, gathering new friends and stories to share. Now he needs a ship – which isn’t easy, so he’s heard. But luckily, he soon finds a willing captain and in return for a story – or two – secures his safe passage. Among the stories in THE DRAGON’S TEETH are the tales of two of the greate...

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...

The Most Beautiful Walk in the World - A Pedestrian in Paris

Thrust into the unlikely role of professional “literary walking tour” guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long- time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving “literary walking tours” through the city. Baxter sets off with unsuspecting tourists in tow on the...

The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell - Book 1

Alex and Conner Bailey’s world is about to change.When the twins’ grandmother gives them a treasured fairy-tale book, they have no idea they’re 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 haven’t ended in this magical land – Goldilocks is now a wanted fugitive, Red Riding Hood h...

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...

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 Gloriumptious Worlds of Roald Dahl - A Spectacular Scrapbook of Stories, Characters and Creations

Have you ever wanted to know what actually happened to James Trotter’s parents when they encountered an angry, escaped rhino? Or how to make the Twits’ infamous bird pie? Well now you can find out, with The Gloriumptious Worlds of Roald Dahl.The book is a brilliant extension to Dahl’s wonderful stories and gives fascinating insights into the characters and events from Roald Dahl’s writing in a...

The Father - Made In Sweden

‘A powerful real-life story’Guardian An epic crime thriller for fans of Jo Nesbo, The Father is inspired by the extraordinary true story of three brothers who became Sweden’s most successful criminals – written by their real brother. None had committed a crime before. All were under 24 years old. All of them would be changed forever. In this intoxicating, heartbreaking thriller, the real-li...

Was it the Chocolate Pudding? - A Story for Little Kids About Divorce

Was It the Chocolate Pudding? tells the story of divorce in a typical family from the point of view of an engaging young narrator. Readers learn about divorce, and receive age-appropriate explanations of what is happening regarding such issues as single-parent homes and joint custody. But most importantly, the narrator explains that divorce is not the child’s fault – it is a grown-up problem. Th...

The Beginner's Bible - Timeless Children's Stories

The Beginner’s Bible ® has been a favorite with young children and their parents since its release in 1989 with over 25 million products sold. Now it’s redesigned with fresh new art that will excite children for many more years to come.Full of faith and fun, The Beginner’s Bible is a wonderful gift for any child. The easy-to-read text and bright, full-color illustrations on every page make it ...