Books

Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House...

Many talented professionals work hard, deliver great results and quietly support their teams, yet they often feel overlooked in the workplace. They know they have more to contribute, but self-doubt, fear of appearing arrogant, or difficulty speaking up...

Many business owners start their companies with excitement and ambition, only to find themselves trapped inside the very business they created. Instead of freedom and opportunity, they experience stress, constant firefighting and the feeling that growth...

Reputation is one of the most powerful assets a business can possess. It shapes opportunities, influences revenue, and determines how customers, employees and the market perceive your organisation. Yet despite its importance, reputation is often...

Are you swamped in the day to day running of your business and feel like you are suffocating with no time for the things that are truly important to you? International Author, Speaker, Business Owner and Transport Driver, Lynette Gray, shares the secrets...

Transform your property; capture, store, and reuse rainwater with eco-friendly drainage solutions. Say goodbye to water issues! Discover the secret—read this book today! The unique underground eco-friendly water collection and storage system includes...

Discover the essential business strategies that high-performing companies use to thrive in competitive industries. In this practical and insightful guide, international author and aerospace industry expert Bob Pillay reveals the five key principles that...

Magnificent Parent is the essential guide for new and expecting parents who want to raise confident, healthy, and thriving children right from day one. Written by international author and parenting educator Peter Rowan, this book is packed with practical...

The Inevitable Hour is the sixth and final volume of the “Australian Doctors at War” series, covering the period from January 1943 to the disbanding of the Second Australian Imperial Force in April 1947. Even after, the Japanese had been driven from...

Volume five of the "Australian Doctors at War" series covers the period from December 1941 to January 1943, when the Japanese crossed New Guinea, threatening to invade Australia until they were driven back over the Kokoda Track.

A first hand political, personal and historical commentary, including author David Solomon’s experience of the Whitlam dismissal in 1975, and Sir John Kerr’s divulgences about his aspiration to be Prime Minister. FOOTNOTES is partly autobiographical,...

Anna had a powerful bond with her great grandmother. And when she passed away she left Anna something very special. It would take her back to old Naples, to plagues, the Fontanelle cemetery and to the cult of the dead. Halstead Press presents Paul...

Sometimes things just happen. And when a number of things just happen around the same time in the same place there can be unexpected outcomes. This book is about Australia in the 1870s. It involves a disastrous shipwreck, a young Irish woman named Eva...

Coming home from a friend’s house one Sunday afternoon, Thomas came across a street full of rubbish. Piles of it in front of peoples’ homes. It was a council clean up. Thomas peered into the heaps of stuff … and then something caught his eye on one of...

As white settlement spread along railways and through the agricultural areas of Australia, almost every important town boasted a large sophisticated flour mill. This handsome illustrated survey of flour milling reflects the story of Australia in general...

This effervescent history is a window into the wonderful world of community radio—an inspiration to fans of free expression, wherever they are. Forty six unsorted boxes in a damp basement contained the “archives” of one of Australia’s least orthodox...

Alarmists and deniers rarely go head to head in the climate change debate. They preach instead to sympathetic audiences whose minds are made up. This book, however, is designed to address open-minded readers and explain in lay terms how greenhouse gases...

Colourful brands and packaging erupted in the 1920s and 30s, when tariffs killed flour exports to Europe. Australian manufacturers courted Asian markets with fun and exciting new labelling. Junk brand, Hand brand, Relief brand, “Girl and Dragon”,...

Jack the Super Prawn lives in the Barrier Reef and uses his powers to protect the environ-ment. With JackVac, he cleans up rubbish and impurities in seawater. With JackCopter, he soars high into the air, where you wouldn’t normally see a prawn. Of course...

This book features a carefully curated collection of Kerry Leishmans artwork as it appeared throughout newspaper publications such as the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age over several decades, includes comments from famous and infamous columnists, as...

A lively and thorough telling of one of Australia’s greatest front page scandals, involving key figures of the nation’s art movement, politicians and business leaders, with William Dobell and Joshua Smith caught in the middle. Whilst World War II raged...

When Chris Skinner’s mate Stew asked where he’d like to go for his 60th, no one expected “Mt Everest by motorbike”. If you’re used to creature comforts, wary about what you eat, and never know when you’ll need patching up in a good hospital, you might...

Jack the Super Prawn lives in the Barrier Reef and uses his powers to protect the environ-ment. With JackVac, he cleans up rubbish and impurities in seawater. With JackCopter, he soars high into the air, where you wouldn’t normally see a prawn. Of course...

Graceful, intelligent and huge, Whales cast a spell over the human species. But their thoughts and ways of life lie beyond our understanding, in an alien habitat. A few people who’ve dived and made their acquaintance come closer to penetrating the...

Greyhound racing has a contentious history in New South Wales—2017 was not the first time that its existence was threatened, and it probably won’t be the last. Now, for the first time, a comprehensive history of the sport has been collected, deftly...

The field of science in Australia would be poorer if not for Charles Martin. The indefatigable Englishman served the physiology departments of burgeoning universities in Sydney and Melbourne at the end of the 19th century, before returning home to run...

What do Julius Caesar, Aung San Suu Kyi, Thomas More and , Pope Innocent III all share?. What eanbled a deaf Beethoven, a blind Milton, a syphilitic Schubert and a certifiable Virginia Woolf to create memorable masterpieces? Peter Deakin takes a new...

What do near death experiences tell us about life after death? Rev John Spooner believes in Heaven and the afterlife, but he is careful not to let Christian doctrine get in the way of an open-minded inquiry about what death has in store for us all. He...

Reclining in the shade of a rotunda, or being serenaded from a bandstand, everyone has fond memories of sunny days in parks and pavilions. Criss-crossing the country, from Albany to Toogoolawah, travellers can find little gems that adorn the land...

English, Dutch, French, American and Russian ships anhjored alongside convict vessels in Sydneys peaceful harbour. they carried Matthew Flinders and other famous navigators; political prisoners, daring escapees, Aborigines and Maoris making their first...

Church leaders of all persuasions and prominent lay Christians have opened up to Graham Downie over forty years on the issues and feelings that matter to them most. Cardinal Pell, Desmond Tutu, Anglican hardliner Peter Jensen, lapsed GG Peter...

Author Bob Phillips crunches the numbers to provide an exhaustive analysis of risk from the cradle to the grave. Reveals how much safer it is to be a woman than a man. Points out hazards like shark attacks that were very scared of despite their rarity...

In a world full of conceptual theories of leadership, Pam Ryan goes back to experience to discover patterns and principles that actually work for the person in the bosss chair. After decades leading in Australian and overseas schools and government, she...

The global leader in digital core analysis for oil and gas exploration is a firm linked to the UNSW and ANU. The company which introduced large scale multi-player computer games—with technology that recently gained dominance of the Chinese market—is the...

The Poets and Perspectives Series has been applauded —by students, poets, critics and educators—for stimulating enjoyment and interest. It combines information and critical essays in the same volume as a sampling of each poets finest work. Titles...

The 125 year story of one of the worlds greatest urban parks. Centennial Park, in the heart of Sydney, opened in 1888 to mark the centenary of colonisation. It has been the stage for celebration of Federation and many other national milestones.This book...

A big beautiful book with fabulous painting of famous sailing ships, working sail from colonial times, ships at war and modern freighters, by famous sailing ships, working sail from colonial times, ships at war, and modern freighters—illustrated in...

Rollicking outback adventures and offroad battles with harsh terrain are usually remembered by stockmen and drovers. But heres the story of people who went deep into the remotest parts of Australia, year after year, without any livestock at all...

In the late 1970s, adventure bus journeys were the most exciting form of international travel. Buses crossed continents to the fabled cities of Asia, Europe, Africa and South America, carrying adventurous travellers across scenic lands and harsh...

The 500 Lunches Effect explores a simple but powerful idea: many people’s lives and careers are limited not by ability, intelligence or opportunity, but by hesitation in social situations. The book began with a personal experiment. Curious about how...

North Queensland was alive with goldrush excitement when a young widow moved to the new township of Port Douglas. Vashti Farrer opens the door on a colonial world, and hard pioneering lives in a tropical paradise. This illustrated book describes the men...

Most people work hard for decades, yet still feel trapped by money. The alarm clock rings, the bills keep coming and, despite earning more than ever before, true financial freedom still feels just out of reach. Freedom Gameplan offers a different way to...

Retirement isn’t the end of the road. It’s a new beginning. In Retirement: The Great Escape Plan, award-winning financial adviser Jenny Brown reimagines what it means to retire in today’s world. Far from being a time to slow down, she shows readers how...

What if surviving the unimaginable became the beginning of discovering who you truly are? For nearly three decades, Karen Humphries has lived inside a body shaped by chronic illness, disability, profound grief, life as an ostomate, and the daily reality...

Harold Larwood’s own version of the great 1932-1933 Ashes cricket series, with full scores and annotated photographs from his own collection. A cricket classic, first published in 1933. Harold Larwood was one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. But...

The memoirs of a young governess and budding photographer who lives for a year in Darwin - in 1913 - travelling the surrounds to Pine Creek till early 1914. A remarkable evocation of daily life in the Territory when few white women were living there,...

A study of the deaths of 25 men in the early days of settlement in the Hunter Valley, NSW. This historian examines the living conditions of convicts, squatters, aboriginals and magistrates in harsh conditions, with very little policing or communication...

What if your next customer didnt have a pulse, preferences, or patience for poor performance? In Machine Customers: The Evolution Has Begun, CX Evolutionist, Katja Forbes, reveals how intelligent agents, autonomous procurement systems, and logic-driven...