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The Good Parents
Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive to stay with her, they are told by her housemate that Maya has gone away and no one know...
Obernewtyn (#1 The Obernewtyn Chronicles)
The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Book One For Elspeth Gordie freedom is-like so much else after the Great White-a memory. It was a time known as the Age of Chaos. In a final explosive flash everything was destroyed. The few who survived banded together and formed a Council for protection. But people like Els...
The Way I Found Her
"The Way I Found Her is a magical invention of page-turning suspense, of sadness, of grief and passion, whose sure and delicate exposure of a sensibility flowering one hot Parisian summer teaches us the price of experience. Do not miss it" Elizabeth Buchan, The Times First published 1997....
Lani's Story: Not A Victim. A Survivor
'How one person can endure so much and then rise and be the incredible woman that she is today is a testament to how change comes from within. Lani reminds us how the spirit can fight, no matter how broken and bruised, to make a difference in this world.' Deborah Mailman A confronting and compelling acc...
The Day The Crayons Quit
The Number One New York Times Bestseller!Included in BookTrust’s 100 Best Books for ChildrenDebut author Drew Daywalt and international bestseller Oliver Jeffers team up to create a colourful solution to a crayon-based crisis in this playful, imaginative story that will have children laughing and playin...
You Made Me Late Again!
With over fifty new poems from Britain?s favourite poet, You Made Me Late Again! is an essential addition to Pam Ayres? incomparable collection of works.Pam?s poems are observant, witty and poignant in equal measure. In 'The Swifts? and 'The Pyracantha Anthem? she marvels at nature, while 'A Patient?s P...
Summer Days: Stories and Poems Celebrating the Kiwi Summer
The great Kiwi summer conjures images of the beach, swimming, boating, fishing, families, friends adventures ... This collection of seven stories and ten poems capture that quintessential summer feeling, and is perfect summertime reading to share with children. Dive in to find all sorts of treasures by ...
Ayiti - Short Stories
From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In Ayiti, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young woman procures a voodoo love potion to ensnare a childhood classmate. A mo...
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
In this unprecedented book, palliative medicine pioneer Dr Kathryn Mannix explores the biggest taboo in our society and the only certainty we all share: death. A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE Told through a series of beautifully crafted stories taken from nearly four ...
Mama's Boy - A Memoir
'A magnificent achievement . . . I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful, unflinching, funny, sad, triumphant . . . everything. And both a warning and a hope for the times to come' STEPHEN FRY Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn ...
How To Do The Work: the million-copy global bestseller
As a clinical psychologist, Dr Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy. Wanting more for her patients - and for herself - she began a journey to develop a united philosophy of mental, physical and spiritual health that equips people with the interdisc...
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (Penguin Great Ideas Series)
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and self-control, friendship and courage, Aristotle's lectu...
Ghosts
Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her, it feels like all is going to plan. A new relationship couldn't...
Wanderess - The Unearth Women Guide to Traveling Smart, Safe, and Solo
Nikki Vargas; Elise Fitzsimmons
Feminism meets travel in this interactive resource for women who love to travel the world, near and far--from the co-founders of Unearth Women, the very first female travel publication. Whether you're a volunteer, explorer, foodie, solo traveler (or all of the above!), here is what you need to exper...
What It Feels Like for a Girl
'I don't know what it is about heights. I'm scared of 'em. Dead scared. But not of fallin'. I'm scared of jumpin'. Coz whenever I'm high up, I get this overwhelmin' urge to just... leap off.' Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for "talkin' li...
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