Too Scared To Cry - And other true stories from the nat...
A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering s...
The First Christmas and Other Bible Stories From the Ne...
A beautiful cloth-bound gift edition containing 16 of the be...
The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the ...
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kil...
The Best Australian Yarns - And Other True Stories
Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collec...
The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology - True stories from ...
Lonely Planet: The worldÂ’s leading travel guide publisher ...
Demigods and Magicians - Three Stories from the World o...
Join Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase and Carter and Sadie Kane...
Flak - True Stories from the Men who Flew in World War ...
Michael VeitchÂ’s life-long obsession with the aircraft of t...
The Bassoon King - Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales ...
For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute in the T...
Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights? - Fitness Myths, ...
Award-winning journalist and physicist Hutchinson reveals th...
Cricket's Strangest Matches - Extraordinary but true st...
Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of cricke...
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of America...
The Rumpus Room - And other stories from the suburbs
Comedian Tim Ross draws inspiration from his acclaimed ABC t...
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder - And Other True Cases
An ideal family is targeted for death by the least likely en...
Too Scared To Cry - And Other True Stories From The Nation's Favo
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories - Reillustrated Edition
In a dark, dark room, in a soft, soft voice, tell a scary story! Newly reillustrated, this classic I Can Read full of spooky stories is perfect for beginning readers who love a bit of a scare. Victor RivasÂ’s silly and spooky art will introduce a new generation to stories inspired by traditional folktales like “The Teeth,” “In the Graveyard,” “The Green Ribbon,” “In A Dark, Dark Room,” Â...
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 First Christmas and Other Bible Stories From the New Testament
A beautiful cloth-bound gift edition containing 16 of the best-known New Testament stories retold for children, by Enid Blyton, one of the world’s best-loved storytellers. The perfect Christmas gift. ’Enid Blyton’s retelling of Christ’s own stories and the meaning of His time on Earth is full of love – Christ’s love for us, our love for each other – and Enid’s caring and timeless love for...
Telling True Stories - Navigating the Challenges of Writing Narrative Non-Fiction
‘In this excellent and provocative book, Matthew Ricketson lays bare the challenges of modern storytelling. I have found myself thinking about it every day, long after I put it down.’ – William Powers, author of Hamlet’s BlackBerry ’An essential guide for the true storyteller.’ – Chloe Hooper, award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction It’s etched into our neurological pathways; we ...
The Gambler and Other Stories
The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life – indeed, ‘The Gambler’, a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes ‘Bobok’, the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and...
Hyperbole and a Half - Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Hilarious stories about life’s mishaps from the creator of the immensely popular blog ‘Hyperbole and a Half’. Fully illustrated with over 50% new material. /i>Hyperbole and A Half is a blog written by a 20-something American girl called Allie Brosh. She tells fantastically funny, wise stories about the mishaps of her everyday life, with titles like ‘Why Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Li...
A Dolls House and Other Plays
The plays in this volume, each written a decade apart, demonstrate different sides of Henrik Ibsen’s genius, but all deal with themes of alienation from society and the breaking down of convention. “A Doll’s House” portrays a woman questioning her duty to her husband and seeking to escape from the stifling confines of her marriage – a theme that shocked contemporary audiences and established ...
Paris for One and Other Stories
A collection of 11 unmissable short stories from the Number One internationally bestselling author of Me Before You and After You Â’Lots to cheer about in MoyesÂ’ first collection of short stories. If you want romance, the title story and its hapless heroine Nell will give it to you in spadesÂ’ Red Â’Moyes somehow manages to break your heart before restoring your faith in loveÂ’ Sunday Express...
The Complete Low-Fodmap Diet - A Revolutionary Plan for Managing Ibs and Other Digestive Disorders
A diet plan proven to relieve symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome and other digestive disorders—presented by the world’s leading experts and tailored to you “A must-have survival guide” —Gerard E. Mullin, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Integrative GI Nutrition Services at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine “What can I do to feel better?” For years, million...
Circus and Other Stories
These four books, published in the Soviet Union between 1925 and 1927, were a collaboration between poet Samuil Marshak (1887-1964) and painter Vladimir Lebedev (1891 – 1967). Based on the idea that a children’s book is an important cultural object in its own right, they linked painting, poetry and typography and created the timeless precursor to the modern children’s picture book. In four bran...
Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts - A Book of Dodgy Schemes and Crazy Dreams from the Bush to the City
‘Australian history is…so curious and strange, that it…does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies… It is full of surprises, and adventures, and incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened.’ – Mark Twain Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in ...
Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no-one anticipated that `Aboriginal affairs’ would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not `dying out’ as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority’s interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Austra...
Great Australian Scams, Cons And Rorts - A book of dodgy schemes and crazy dreams from the bush to the city
Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the most unlikely and maddest schemes, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we’ve never been shy of pulling a trick or two. So how did a clever bushman who ‘couldn’t lie straight in bed’ steal a thousand head of cattle an...
My Italians - True Stories of Crime and Courage
From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this is a deeply personal and candid portrait of Italy today: a place of trafficking and toxic waste, where votes can be bought and sold, where organized crime ravages both north and south – yet also where many courageous individuals defy the system, and millions work tirelessly for a better future. ’Saviano is a blazingly vivid and courag...
Besieged - Stories from the Iron Druid Chronicles
***OVER A MILLION COPIES OF THE IRON DRUID BOOKS SOLD*** ’American Gods meets Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden’ SFF World Discover this action-packed collection of short stories featuring Atticus O’Sullivan – the two-thousand-year-old tattooed Irishman with extraordinary powers from Kevin Hearne’s New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles. - In ancient Egypt, Atticus raids a secret cham...
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder - And Other True Cases
An ideal family is targeted for death by the least likely enemy, who plotted their demise from behind bars…. A sexual predator hides behind multiple fake identities, eluding police for years while his past victims live in fear that he will hunt them down…. A modest preacher’s wife confesses to shooting her husband after an argument — but there’s more to her shattering story than meets the eye...
Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies
Kitty Flanagan has been locked in an industrial freezer in Western Australia, insulted about the size of her lady parts in Singapore and borne witness to the world’s most successful wife swap in suburban Sydney. It’s these valuable lessons from The University of Life that have taught her so many things, including the fact that cliches like ‘The University of Life’ are reeeally annoying. In t...
The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories - The Collected Ghost Stories of Susan Hill
‘No one chills the blood like Susan Hill’ Daily Telegraph From the horrifying secret of Eel Marsh House in The Woman in Black to the supernatural terror unleashed by spiteful Leonora van Vorst in Dolly and the deadly danger posed by Professor Parmitter’s painting of Venice in The Man in the Picture, Susan Hill’s ghost stories never fail to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and keep you...
The Near and the Far - new stories from the Asia-Pacific region
From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them. ItÂ’s a sweltering night in Kuala Lumpur, and a journalist is protesting in a city on the edge of meltdown. ItÂ’s post-9/11 San Francisco, and a woman meets her foster child, who provokes painful reminders of her past. ItÂ’s contemporary Bangkok, and a writerÂ’s encount...
Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories
‘We all went down to the tar-pit, with mats to spread our weight.’ So begins ‘Singing My Sister Down’, Margo Lanagan’s internationally acclaimed, award-winning short story. Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories brings together ten celebrated short stories, along with three new ones, from the extraordinarily talented author of Tender Morsels and Sea Hearts. A bride accepts her devastating...
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural’s most celebrated book Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s ...