Tour de Oz - The extraordinary story of the first bicyc...
Four years before the inaugural Tour de France, four cyclist...
Australia's Argonauts - The remarkable story of the fir...
The story of the first cadet-midshipmen to join the Royal Au...
First Footprints - The Epic Story of the First Australi...
Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Aus...
The Salmon - The Extraordinary Story of the King of Fis...
`Sometimes the river was too high to see the fish pairs well...
Travelling to Infinity - The True Story Behind the Theo...
In this compelling memoir his first wife, Jane Hawking, rela...
Stone Cold - The Extraordinary Story of Len Opie, Austr...
If Id have been a Vietcong youd be dead. Len Opie...
Strict Rules - The iconic story of the tour that shaped...
Midnight Oil are an iconic Australian band, known for their ...
Faster, Higher, Farther - The Inside Story of the Volks...
A shocking exposU of Volkswagens fraud by the New York Tim...
Wonder Horse - The True Story of the World's Smartest H...
From a Caldecott Medalist (Mirette on the High Wire) com...
The Really Big Treehouse Boxed Set - (the 13-Story Tree...
Full of zany illustrations and slapstick humor, the first th...
Hidden Figures - The Untold Story of the African Americ...
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREThe #1 New York Times Bests...
Zero Night - The Untold Story of the Second World War's...
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942...
Women and Children First - Bravery, Love and Fate: the ...
Praise for Gill Paul: `A cleverly crafted novel and an enthr...
And Tango Makes Three: The True Story of the Very First...
And Tango Makes Three: The True Story of the Very First Chin...
Tour De Oz - The Extraordinary Story Of The First Bicycle Race Ar
A Long Way Gone - The True Story of a Child Soldier
The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. `My new friends have begun to suspect that I havent told them the full story of my life. Why did you leave Sierra Leone? Because there is a war. You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other? Yes, all the time. Cool. I smile a little. You should...
The Story Of The Orchestra - Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Mus...
Eye-catching illustrations, an engaging text and delightful musical selections on an accompanying 70-minute CD lead children aged 8 to 12 (and parents too!) on an exciting and educational listen-while-you-learn tour through the instruments and music of the orchestra. The Composers, name by name Baroque Classical Romantic Modern - The Orchestra, instrument by instrument String ...
The World of David Walliams CD Story Collection - The Boy in the Dress/Mr Stink/Billionaire Boy/Gangsta Granny/Ratburger...
Five screamingly funny stories from number one bestselling childrens author David Walliams, in this big, bumper CD boxset, performed by the King of Comedy himself. THE BOY IN THE DRESS Denniss very ordinary life is about to get a lot more extraordinary. Why? Theres a clue in the title of this book
MR STINK When Chloe decides to hide a homeless man in her garden shed, she discovers ...
Zero Night - The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 Zero Night 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first Great Escape but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. This was the notorious Warburg ...
Star Wars The Last Jedi 12-Inch First Order Stormtrooper Figure
Star Wars The Last Jedi 12-Inch First Order Stormtrooper Figurelet's kids experience the First OrderKylo Ren's power grows darker and darker, and this 12 inch figure depicts one of his many Stormtrooper who run into battle for the First Order.Features :12 inch fully articulated Stormtrooper, holds a blaster.Character and movie inspired design for realistic play.Combine with ot...
Star Wars The Last Jedi 12-Inch First Order Stormtrooper Figure
Star Wars The Last Jedi 12-Inch First Order Stormtrooper Figurelet's kids experience the First OrderKylo Ren's power grows darker and darker, and this 12 inch figure depicts one of his many Stormtrooper who run into battle for the First Order.Features :12 inch fully articulated Stormtrooper, holds a blaster.Character and movie inspired design for realistic play.Combine with ot...
Stone Cold - The Extraordinary Story of Len Opie, Australia's Deadliest Soldier
If Id have been a Vietcong youd be dead. Len Opie Len was a soldier above soldiers. Keith Payne VC Through three wars across 30 years, Len Opie carved a reputation as one of the countrys greatest infantrymen. A cold-eyed killer who drank nothing stronger than weak tea, he fought with his bare hands, a sharpened shovel and piano wire. He was a larrikin who went by the book, un...
Finding My Place - From Cairo to Canberra - the irresistible story of an irrepressible woman
From Cairo to Canberra the irresistible story of an irrepressible woman Anne Alys
influence will be felt for years to come
It sinks in how significant she may be to public life. The Good Weekend In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the first counter-terrorism expert to be elected to federal parliament. She was also most proba...
Whispering Hope - The True Story of the Magdalene Women
At the conclusion of my discussions with one group of the Magdalene Women one of those present sang Whispering Hope. A line from that song stays in my mind when the dark midnight is over, watch for the breaking of day.Let me hope that this day and this debate heralds a new dawn for all those who feared that the dark midnight might never end. Taoiseach Enda Kennys State apology to...
Not Your Average Nurse - From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the True Story of an Unlikely Girl and an Extraordinary...
Over time, I nursed victims of war, the posh, the poor, the famous and the infamous
Oh, the stories I can tell! To a young girl the life of a student nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift its never easy. So when Maggie Groff embarks as a student nurse at Londons Kings College Hospital she must quickly get to grips with the demands of her chosen career. Its sin...
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer
So impossibly funny, clever, demented, charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages. Buy it for everyone you know, regardless of what you think they like. Brilliant stuff Lucy Mangan, Stylist Books of the Year An eye-opener
The more I think about this, the higher I esteem it Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Books of the Year Winner of the British Book Design an...
In the Line of Fire - The Inside Story from the Lions Head Coach
Warren Gatlands In the Line of Fire is the ultimate chronicle of this summers remarkable Lions tour to New Zealand home of the fearsome All Blacks, the double world champions which culminated in an historic and nerve-shredding series draw. The book is the Head Coachs wonderfully candid and vibrant record of the withering ferocity, the turbulent peaks and troughs, the triumphs and desp...
Codename Suzette - An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris
During the German occupation of France, Suzanne Spaak displayed almost super-human courage
Anne Nelson has written an extraordinary book that finally does justice to Spaaks story of heroism and sacrifice. Andrew Nagorski, author of The Nazi Hunters Codename Suzette is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust, an account of outstanding courage in the face of evil. Suzanne Spaak was b...
The First To Know
Dont miss the second gripping and heartfelt story from the author of If I Fix You! A girls plan to find her fathers birth family turns potentially devastating when the secret DNA test she has done reveals that she has a half-brother her age that she never knew about. Dont miss the second gripping and heartfelt story from the author of If I Fix You. A girls plan to find her fathers bir...
The Only Story
Would you rather love the more; and suffer the more; or love the less; and suffer the less? That is; I think; finally; the only real question.First love has lifelong consequences; but Paul doesnât know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen; heâs proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.As he grows older; the demands placed on Paul by love become fa...
Alice in Chains - The Untold Story
Alice in Chains were among the loudest voices out of Seattle. They were iconic pioneers who mixed grunge and metal in ways that continue to influence todays artists, and theirs is a story of hard work, self-destruction, rising from the ashes, and carrying on a lasting legacy. Four years after their first meeting at a warehouse under Seattles Ballard Bridge, Alice in Chains became the first of ...
The Seventh Circle - A Former Australian Soldier's Extraordinary Story of Surviving Seven Years in Afghanistan's Most No...
I was arrested on Thursday 9th July 2009. On Wednesday Id quit my job, killed a man and set his body on fire. I was sentenced to death. Im not a good man, but I am an honest one. This is my story. Rob Langdon served in the Australian Army for almost fifteen years, before becoming a security contractor working in Iraq and Afghanistan. In July 2009 Rob was protecting a convoy when he shot a...
Shrinks - The Untold Story of Psychiatry
A world-renowned psychiatrist reveals the fascinating story of psychiatrys origins, demise and redemption. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining lunatics in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman reveals in his extraordinary and eye-opening book, the path to legitimacy for the black sheep of medicine has b...
Maralinga, the Anangu Story
Maralinga the Anangu Story is our story. We have told it for our children, our grandchildren and their children. We have told it for you. In words and pictures Yalata and Oak Valley community members, with author Christobel Mattingley, describe what happened in the Maralinga Tjarutja lands of South Australia before the bombs and after. Honour Book, 2010 Childrens Book Council of Austral...
Magna Carta - The True Story Behind the Charter
A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta
his crisp storytelling, based around short chapters and rolling rhetoric, is extremely entertaining. Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Good history is descriptive, narrative and analytical. This is good history. Gerard DeGroot, The Times At Runnymede, on the banks of the Riv...
Finding Gobi (Younger Readers edition) - The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey
For fans of A Streetcat Named Bob comes Finding Gobi, the heart-warming true story of a dog who captured the hearts of the world. Younger readers edition. Finding Gobi is the ultimate story of hope and friendship proving once again, that dogs really are `mans best friend. In 2016, Dion Leonard, an ultramarathon runner, stumbled across a little stray dog while competing in a gruelling 15...