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Written for primary school students, this book details the history of Australian inventions and gives biographical details of our most famous inventors.

We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousnes

Margot Bell's mansion Deepdene is the home of her luxurious "makeover" clinic, where women go to become beautiful.

To the shock of his family and community, George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual assault at a prestigious prep school in Connecticut.

At the centre of this epic tale are enigmatic Sparrow, a genius composer who wishes desperately to create music yet can find truth only in silence; his mother and aunt, Big Mother Knife and Swirl,

Catherine Leroux’s The Party Wall shifts between and ties together stories about pairs joined in surprising ways.

Recipes for cooking unrefined foods in ways that preserve their nutrient flavour and fibre content. Most of the recipes are vegetarian, but some require eggs or minimal meat.

Most of the things Pillow really liked to do were obviously morally wrong. He wasn't an idiot; clearly it was wrong to punch people in the face for money.

Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who bec

Critically acclaimed for his international bestseller, A Case of Curiosities, Allen Kurzweil has been called one of today's most gifted new voices in fiction.

A selection of poetry chosen from the best works of Michael Dugan and Doug Macleod with jokes and fun, hilarious domestic life and strange forms of domestic nonsense.

"Ranging from an island holiday gone wrong to a dive bar on the upswing to a yuppie mother in a pricey subdivision seeing her worst fears come true, these deftly written stories are populated by ba

The stories in The Two of Us focus on pairs: intense one-on-one relationships and encounters.

To escape an unhappy home situation, fourteen-year-old Rod McKenzie, six feet tall and more than eleven stone, enlists in the army during World War Two, claiming to be nineteen.

Íso, a young Guatemalan woman, works at a fertility clinic at Ixchel, in the highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas.