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Reaper’s Destiny

Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Stella Reaper, a girl with magical abilities must battle Mekredawn, a demon ruler who is on a vengeful journey to end her life. Reaper's Destiny by Sebastian Porta Publisher: XlibrisAU Genre:...

Unmaking Angas Downs

Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Some stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia, but pastoralism is only a...

Conversations With My Cat

Wednesday, 18 October 2023
How does Schrödinger’s Cat relate to chewed computer cords? How do you fit work around a cat’s napping schedule? Why do cats change their minds as soon as you open...

Unfinished Woman

Wednesday, 30 August 2023
An unforgettable memoir from the author of the sensational international bestseller, Tracks. Robyn Davidson delves into her childhood and youth to uncover the forces that set her on her path,...

Red Reflection

Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Audiobook now available—narrated by Australian/Austrian actor Chloe Schwank. Environmental fiction that takes you to an uncomfortable yet familiar world. Shocking, imaginative and achingly perceptive. Red Reflection by Phil McNamara Publisher: The Third...

Asparagus Grass

Wednesday, 9 August 2023
‘Kurt Vonnegut meets Jason Bourne’ —Peter Goldsworthy AM, author of Maestro and Honk If You Are Jesus Mitch Kuiper works for the Council pulling out asparagus grass—a tough spiky weed...

Wow It’s All A Lot

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
This book is for anyone going through a tough time, about celebrating the awkward and messy middle bits of life. Samuel's artwork and writing celebrate the messy bits of trying...

Writers of the Future Volume 39

Wednesday, 7 June 2023
Twelve captivating tales from dark fantasy to time travel. Check out what Brandon Sanderson, Orson Scott Card, Nnedi Okorafor, Sean Williams, Kevin J Anderson, Jody Lynn Nye, and others chose...

Blind Spot

Wednesday, 17 May 2023
When Dale sees a drunk girl being undressed by a group of guys at a party, he backs away. He’s pretty drunk himself, but he knows what he saw. Why...

Phoenix and Ralph

Wednesday, 10 May 2023
This book is an object of community memory, a lament for the human and natural losses caused by climate disasters like the Canberra firestorm of 2003 and the Australia-wide fires...

Wild Ride

Wednesday, 5 April 2023
Showcasing Australia’s largest stock saddle collection, the Drapac Collection, Wild Ride is a sumptuous illustrated history of the iconic Australian stock saddle, from colonial pioneers to Aboriginal stockmen and women,...

The Power of Trees

Wednesday, 1 March 2023
The Power of Trees is Peter Wohlleben’s follow-up to his internationally bestselling The Hidden Life of Trees. It is a love letter to the forest and a passionate argument for...

What Will You Make Today?

Wednesday, 1 March 2023
What Will You Make Today? is a non-fiction picture book that invites children to explore the many ways they can make a difference in the world. In a world bursting...

Tanya Plibersek

Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Elected to federal parliament aged twenty-eight, Tanya Plibersek is the longest-serving woman in Australia’s House of Representatives and one of Australia’s most popular, trusted and respected politicians. Fiercely private, much...

Cobar Wombat and Friends’ Litter Adventure

Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Cobar Wombat and his friends investigate the source of pieces of rubbish that they find and discover a whole new realisation about litter, the environment, and their relationship with humans....

African Graffiti

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
From Madagascar to the Congo through Comoros and Botswana. African Graffiti tells a story of self-discovery as well as finding a home in the unknown. Offering the reader new worlds...

Tales from the Pandemic: an anthology

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Tales from the Pandemic is a collection of stories written by everyday people going about their everyday lives—but things are far from normal in a Covid-ridden world. Traversing both fiction...

Cannon Fire: A life in print

Wednesday, 2 November 2022
Michael Cannon is best known as the author of landmark and popular works of Australian history, including The Land Boomers (1966), and as the founding editor of Historical Records of Victoria. Cannon's account...

Illusions of Certainty: Thoughts about thinking

Wednesday, 5 October 2022
This book condemns the certainties which pervade Western society, whether about innate rights, ethics or societal behavior, for a close examination of our powers of reasoning shows all such certainties...

Kaos Court

Wednesday, 28 September 2022
Dave died in mysterious and grotesque circumstances and the murder has caught the imagination of a nation. There's a Facebook poll running and 46% of voters think Robyn's guilty. Maybe...

Pick Your Own Nose

Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Pick Your Own Nose addresses the common problem of children being unable to fall asleep by themselves. This story is about empowering children to become independent and to learn to...

Scot Free

Wednesday, 24 August 2022
‘Four murders. Three weeks. Two jackpots. One killer goes scot free.’ Welcome to Scot Free, the reality TV show that thrusts together ten strangers—five convicted murderers and a relative of...

August in Kabul: America’s Last Days in Afghanistan

Wednesday, 3 August 2022
As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United States, its Western allies and a proxy Afghan government,...

The Brothers

Wednesday, 3 August 2022
When Special Forces veteran Jake Harlow returns to the hamlet of Lorne on the Victorian south-west coast for his younger brother Tom's funeral, he finds a sinister series of notes...

Mai Tai Two Times

Wednesday, 27 July 2022
EDDIE HEADS is a professional liar. A daydreamer. A writer of bogus articles for a dodgy travel journal. But that’s all over after the magazine went bust. Now Eddie is...