There Was an Old Mozzie Who Swallowed a Lady
The mozzie is back! Hes bigger. Hes badder. And he wants...
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Meerkat
There was an old lady who swallowed a meerkat. I dont kn...
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed an Egg
There was an old lady who swallowed an egg. I dont know wh...
There Was An Old Bloke Who Swallowed a Chook
There was an old bloke who swallowed a chook. I dont know...
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Mozzie 3D
Aussie animals beware! An old lady is on the loose in the Au...
There Was an Old Bloke Who Swallowed a Present
There was an old bloke who swallowed a present. I dont k...
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Star!
There was an old lady who swallowed a star. I dont know ...
There Was A Crooked Man
Little Big Man
Meet 10-year-old Zac a boy on a mission in Katy Regans new novel Little Big Man . . . You cant see the truth from the outside, thats what Ive worked out. Ten-year-old Zac has never met his dad, who allegedly did a runner before he was born. But when his mum lets slip that hes the only man shes ever loved, Zac turns detective and, roping in his best friend, hatches a plan to fi...
Dog Man 3 - A Tale of Two Kitties
He was the best of dogs
He was the worst of dogs
It was the age of invention
It was the season of surprise
It was the eve of supa sadness
It was the dawn of hope
Dog Man, the newest hero from the creator of Captain Underpants, hasnt always been a paws-itive addition to the police force. While he can muzzle miscreants, he tends to leave a slick of slobber in his wake! This time, Pete...
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton A mans brain is a bomb, he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A mans brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Sym...
Wolverine - Old Man Logan Vol. 5: Past Lives
A failure from the past haunts Logan and to correct his mistakes, hell need magical assistance! But when he faces opposition, the man who was once Wolverine will turn to an unlikely and potentially treacherous ally! Will an encounter with the young Spider-Man, Miles Morales, convince Logan to alter his path? Or will a time-torn trip through his past lives from his youth in the 1800s,...
TWICE A HERO, ALWAYS HER MAN/A FORTUNE IN WAITING
Twice A Hero, Always Her Man Marie FerrarellaWidowed TV reporter Ellie King had given up on looking for heroes ever since her beloved husband was killed in a robbery gone wrong. Because she could have used one then, but there was no one around or was there? Detective Colin Benteen comforted Ellies husband as he was dying from his wounds. Now, years later, Ellie is interviewing the hands...
The Drowned Man
A chance encounter in a fish-n-chip shop set Brendan Murray on the trail of a mystery. Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS Australia during the Second World War? The veteran he spoke to was certain. I knew about it, he said. We all did. But was the story true? If so, who was the dead man? And why was it so hard to find out? The Drowned Man is a search for the answer, almost st...
The Fox Hunt: Four Strangers; Thirteen Days; and One Man's Amazin
A young manâs moving story of love; war; and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from fanaticism and a brutal civil war in Yemen; with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West. Born in the Old City of Sanaâa; Yemen; to a pair of middle-class Shiite doctors; Mohammed Al Samawi was a devout Muslim raised to think o...
Once there was a boy... - Boxed Set
An irresistible little library slipcase containting four fabulous stories by internationally acclaimed, award-winning picture books star, Oliver Jeffers! Once there was a boy, and one day
Enjoy four exciting adventures of the boy, as he learns how to catch a star, journeys to the South Pole and the moon making new discoveries and finding friendship along the way. The award-winning pictur...
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwins research interests a central pillar of his human series. This book engaged some of the hardest questions in the evolution debate, and it showed the ever-cautious Darwin at his boldest. If Darwin had one goal with Expression, it was to demonstrate the power of his theories for expla...
The Man Who Was Thursday - Green Popular Penguins
G.K. Chestertons 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes Thursday, one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council. He soon learns, ho...
Anybody Out There
Anna Walsh needs her old life back: her home, her glamorous career and above all the love of her life, her husband Aidan. But what has driven her so far from everything she loves? Id lost my place in the in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human to be . . . Anna Walsh is covered in b...
Three Crooked Kings
It was the genius of the system
From day to day you didnt know who was on the take or not. You didnt know who you could trust. Three Crooked Kings is the shocking true story of Queensland and how a society was shaped by almost half a century of corruption. At its core is Terence Murray Lewis, deposed and jailed former police commissioner. From his entry into the force in 1949, Lewis ro...
This Charming Man
Four very different women, one awfully charming man and a dark secret that binds them all . . . Marian Keyes This Charming Man follows women who have been caught in a web of modern love. Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married Slick, handsome politician Paddy de Courcy is on the up. His party is set to do well in the elections an...
Wolverine - Old Man Logan Vol. 3: The Last Ronin
Logan is an Old Man on a mission! Given a second chance, hes determined to put right what went wrong in the reality he knew: the night the villains joined forces and overcame the worlds heroes, changing his life forever. Logan lost his friends, his purpose, and all that was left was the Wasteland. Now hes back in the past, and perhaps the Villain Uprising can be prevented. But his bid to def...
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
A heart-warming classic full of animal antics by Jill Tomlinson. Plop, the Baby Barn Owl, is like every Barn Owl there ever was, except for one thing he is afraid of the dark. Dark is nasty he says and so he wont go hunting with his parents. Mrs Barn Owl sends him down from his nest-hole to ask about the dark and he meets a little boy waiting for the fireworks to begin, an old lady, a sc...
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Special 40th Anniversary Edition
Forty years after its first publication this much-loved Childs Play classic is as popular as ever and were celebrating the Old Ladys birthday with this beautiful anniversary edition. Ingenious die-cut holes bring this nursery rhyme to life, and Pam Adams fabulous illustrations lend humour and vibrancy to the proceedings. Bouncy images, innovative die cutting and favourite rhymes make Books...
Three Crooked Kings
It was the genius of the system . . . From day to day you didnt know who was on the take or not. You didnt know who you could trust. Three Crooked Kings is the shocking true story of Queensland and how a society was shaped by almost half a century of corruption. At its core is Terence Murray Lewis, deposed and jailed former police commissioner. From his entry into the force in 1949, Lewi...
The Man from Talalaivka - A story of love, life and loss from Ukraine
The Man from Talalaivka is the gripping story of a man torn between love for his country and the harsh reality of totalitarian rule
The story of a man forced to change countries through the battles of two totalitarian tyrants
In an idyllic Kylapchin village, 200 kilometres north-east of Kiev, in Ukraines Sumskaya Oblast, a young mans life was overturned by the brutality of the Stalinist reg...
The Tiger Man of Vietnam
This book drips with adventure and intrigueTHE AGE In 1963, Australian Army Captain Barry Petersen was sent to Vietnam. It was one of the most tightly held secrets of the Vietnam War. Petersen was ordered to train and lead guerrilla squads of Montagnard tribesmen against the Viet Cong in the remote Central Highlands. He successfully formed a fearsome militia, named Tiger Men. A canny lea...
Crooked Kingdom - A Sequel to Six of Crows
Crooked Kingdom the highly anticipated sequel to Leigh Bardugos thrilling #1 New York Times-bestselling Six of Crows.Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didnt think theyd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, theyre right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As ...
Beautiful - A beautiful girl. An evil man. One inspiring true story of courage
I could hear someone screaming and screaming and kept wishing theyd be quiet. Then I realised it was me
When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a glamorous model. But then she fell for 32-year-old Daniel Lynch, a man she met on Facebook, and within weeks her world turned into the most sickening nigh...