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A Partisan's Daughter
"Chris is in his forties- bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. He s a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a prostitute into his car. oza is Yugoslavian, recently moved to London. She s in her twenties, but has already lived a li...
Taniwha
A little boy has made friends with a taniwha in his river, but no-one believes him. The taniwha takes the boy on a journey through time and myth where he meets some amazing characters, gathering the Earth's treasures as he goes. New edition, new jacket...
Seven Little Australians: Popular Penguins
Judy's father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious, cheeky daughter impossible - but seven children were really too much for him and most of the time they ran wild at their rambling riverside home, Misrule. Step inside and meet them all - dreamy Meg, and Pip, daring Judy, naughty Bunty, Nell, Baby and ...
Dark Places
Your brother murdered your family. Your evidence put him away . . . the gripping second novel from the author of GONE GIRL and SHARP OBJECTS Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since then she h...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin (Translator)
"Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to ...
A Wife on Gorge River: Raising New Zealand's Remotest Family
Second hand. In 2010, New Zealand met its remotest family, through the writing of Robert Long aka Beansprout and we were intrigued. Now Beansprout's wife, Catherine Stewart, tells her story, and answers many of our questions. Why did she decide to join him on the wild West Coast, two days' walk from th...
Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle That Gave Birth to the Globe
This book was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize One of the Telegraph's 'Best Books of 2014'. In November 1596 a woman signed a document which would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare ...Who was the woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare's life? Ne...
Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist...
Eat Clean All Year
Eating clean all year round has never been easier! From clean versions of festive indulgences like classic Christmas pudding and hot cross buns, to summery salads and hearty winter casseroles, this cookbook contains all the healthy recipes you need to eat well all year round. Favourites like Mum's Mea...
The Pencil
A little girl finds the end of a line and her adventure begins. She follows it through the pages as it becomes a slide, a hoop, a bubble...and then something that threatens to spoil the fun. In the spirit of Harold and the Purple Crayon, this funny story is a tribute to making the impossible possible, w...
A Guide to Berlin
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and Longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. 'A Guide to Berlin' is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an Ameri...
The Lion Inside (Board)
From the Roald-Dahl-Funny-Prize winning artist behind smash hit, Oi Frog! comes a feelgood story about one little mouse trying to make himself heard and discovering along the way that even the smallest of us has the heart of a lion. The Lion Inside has taken the bookshops by storm, and, with bright, bo...
The Wind in the Willows (V&A Collector's Edition)
One of 5 special Puffin Classics created in collaboration with the V & A, with exquisite cover designs from their William Morris collection. The much-loved classic tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad, reissued in hardback with a stunningly beautiful cover design based on the V & A Museum's Wil...
It Can't Happen Here
"The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump's authoritarian appeal."--Salon It Can't Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how...
Natural Menopause Plan
The effects of menopause can be utterly debilitating for women, ravaging their physical, mental and emotional health and often their careers and relationships too. But conventional therapies come with side effects that sometimes seem nearly as bad.Bestselling author Maryon Stewart shows how you can alle...
After Kathy Acker: A Biography
Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore. The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches Acker both as a writer, and as a member of the ar...
Little Hector and the Big Blue Whale
A gorgeous new picture book for young children to find out all about the tiny and endangered Hector's dolphin.Introducing . . . Little Hector!A small but daring dolphin, Little Hector swims out into the deep blue ocean. He meets many dangers - and an unlikely friend - and proves you are never too small ...
Babies & Toddlers: The Sequel to Up the Duff
Now you have a newbaby, what are you going to do with it?! Babies & Toddlershas you covered from your very first day with a baby. With the help of more than 30 medical and other experts, in her friendly and reassuring way, Kaz Cooke tells you everything you need to know about being a parent for the ...
Ten Little Elves (Board Book)
A Christmas counting rhyme from the creators of the bestselling, award-winning Ten Little Pirates. Now in a sparkly Board Book - perfect for little hands to hold! Ten Little Elves set off on a mission to rescue Christmas. But what will the little elves do when they meet a growling polar bear, a yowling ...
Mrs Dalloway
Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels.Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime ...
The Fate of Fausto
A stunningly presented modern-day fable from world-renowned talent Oliver Jeffers. There was once a man who believed he owned everything and set out to survey what was his. "You are mine," Fausto said to the flower, the sheep, and the mountain, and they all bowed before him. But they were not enough fo...
Serious Noticing - Selected Essays, 1999-2019
The definitive collection of literary essays byThe New Yorker's award-winning longtime book critic Ever since the publication of his first essay collection,The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays on canonical ...
Independence: Vintage Minis
'I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.'We collect some of the most heartening statements of independence from Bronte's heroines Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe as in the face of temptation, hardship and heartache they cling determi...
New Zealanders - The Field Guide
A revealing guide to the weird and wonderful inhabitants of New Zealand... and the places you'll find them. After years of mimicking various celebrities and stereotypes on his social media platforms, comedian Tom Sainsbury has now compiled his favourite New Zealand personalities into a book. This array ...
The Fair Play Deck: A Couple's Conversation Deck for Prioritizing What's Important
Based on the Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times best-seller Fair Play, this couple's conversation deck will help you rebalance your to-do lists, reclaim your time, and rediscover and nurture the skills and interests that make you uniquely you.Whether you just moved in together, hit a snag in your...
What Fresh Hell Is This? Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities and You
What to Expect When You're Not Expected to Expect Anything Anymore Perimenopause and menopause experiences are as unique as all of us who move through them. While there's no one-size-fits-all, Heather Corinna tells you what can happen and what you can do to take care of yourself, all the while busting ...
The Beauty in Breaking - A Memoir
A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book "Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring." --The New York Times Book ReviewAs seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more An emergency room physi...
Lessons
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Corne...
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