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A beautiful clothbound pocket edition of Sir Terry Pratchett's essay on life and death, with an updated Introduction by Rob Wilkins A beautiful clothbound edition of Sir Terry Pratchett's essay on why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth...

Winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence...

Multi-million-copy bestselling author and psychiatrist Dr Anders Hansen shows us why ADHD was - and can still be - an advantage. Are you highly driven, creative, fearless, questioning, flexible, stubborn and enterprising? Are you able to think outside...

Deina is trapped. As one of the Soul Severers serving the god Hades on earth, her future is tied to the task of shepherding the dying on from the mortal world - unless she can earn or steal enough to buy her way out. Then the tyrant ruler Orpheus offers...

Praise for The Lost Book of Adventure: Bear Grylls -- 'Packed FULL of adventures' The Guardian -- 'A clarion call to the child explorer [...] a spectacular immersion in the life of the wild.' Daily Express -- 'Exquisitely illustrated [....

Kit Marlowe: playwright, poet, lover. In the plague-stricken streets of Elizabethan England, Kit flirts with danger, leaving a trail of enemies and old flames in his wake. His plays are a roaring success; he seems destined for greatness.But the queen's...

A visually rich and narratively bold exploration of feminine power, retold through the journey of a curious modern-day seeker. From the series that brought you Witchcraft: A Graphic History, Tarot: A Graphic History, and Goddesses: A Graphic History...

What's the point of soil? What's it ever done for us? From hosting billions of worms to minibeasts and microbes, to being the home of fungi that could allow trees to talk, to providing enough nutrients to feed a planet . . . soil is a muddy, magical,...

It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of the war. The heavily-armed Russians are expecting an easy fight - or...

Why do humans invent so many cool things? What's so good about walking on two legs? And why can't chickens play guitar? Find out inside, and learn many more incredible facts about our amazing species!

Ultimate Football Heroes is a series of biographies telling the life-stories of the biggest and best footballers in the world and their incredible journeys from childhood fan to super-star professional player. Written in fast-paced, action-packed style...

Welcome to the ever-expanding world of the AW YEAH COMICS UNIVERSE! And welcome to the first ever solo adventure and secret origin of WEBSTER the SPIDER MONKEY! After eating a radioactive bug, the lab monkey Webster was caught in a fiery explosion along...

Will is football mad. He practises every day and he's got great skills o but he's the shortest in his year. He knows he would be great on the football pitch, if only he could show the coach that skill can beat size. Will Will ever get a chance to play on...

THE SECOND INSTALLMENT IN THE HOUSE OF SHADOWS DUOLOGY, A GRIPPING FANTASY INSPIRED BY GREEK MYTH. Return to the Underworld... Deina has finally found what matters most to her in all the world. And lost it. To save the one she loves, she's bound...

Expand your bird knowledge with this gorgeous encyclopedia of nearly 400 bird species around the world, unique for its inclusion of both their physical and mythological characteristics. If you're a nature lover who thrives on bird videos and...

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic BBC adaptation - and the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen - a beautiful colouring book illustrating the most beloved characters and scenes from the BBC's Pride and Prejudice. Keep your mind...

SHORTLISTED, Courier-Mail People's Choice Award - Queensland Literary Awards 'Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told' - Susan Johnson 'It reads like the very best of spy thrillers.' - Matthew Condon 'An intimate and compelling look at an ordinary...

When he received an SOS from a friend kidnapped in a dark corner of Asia, journalist Conor Woodman began a journey that would lead him to the most dangerous and least understood place on earth: Wa State, a lawless enclave of Myanmar that neither the...

This illustrated biography offers unprecedented insight into Coco Chanel's complex and enigmatic life through new research and analysis of the designer by an expert historian.Chanel expert Isabelle Fiemeyer offers a rare, deeply personal look into the...

In Greengully, the perfect suburb with perfect parents, nothing is quite as it seems. Chrissy, the teacher who always has the answers, can't understand why her clueless male colleague just scored the job she deserved. Jenny, the perennial class mum, is...

Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest, they communicate; Rose feeds. Thoughts and associations travel far beyond the remit of the front room in their rented flat, which they pace, and which,...

WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 'A vibrant historical novel... Potent' New Yorker, Books of the Year In a remote Newfoundland port settlement, ruthless company man Abe Strapp is set to secure his dominance over the shore and its rich resources by...

When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere. The family's desperate search for safety took...

'Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time?' Lina and her father have arrived at an enclave called the Sea, a staging-post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great...

A collection of the foolproof, classic recipes—and secrets to success—that Matt Lewis, founder of Brooklyn Bakery BAKED, has spent a lifetime perfecting professionally and at homeLifetime baker and cookbook author Matt Lewis opened his Brooklyn bakery...

Set against long Texas summers filled with pinky promises and the bittersweet magic of growing up, The Things We Swore We'd Never Do, a new story from Jillian Dodd, is about losing your person-and learning how to live a little louder in the silence they...

Drawing on recent archaeological and historical research, this book presents the fascinating developments in the archaeology of prehistoric societies of mainland Southeast Asia. Empires of the Southern Ocean offers a sweeping and authoritative account...

Two sisters. One dangerous secret. Twenty-four hours to uncover the truth. Seventeen-year-old Tempest was born into a world of water. The most skilled diver on the Equinox Reef, she searches drowned cities with her older sister Elysea, seeking out old...

Young LAPD detective Renée Ballard has been relegated to the 'Late Show' after filing a sexual harassment complaint against her supervisor. Working in a twilight world of tragedy and violence, Ballard never gets closure, each morning forced to turn her...

'The giant just lifted the roof off, scooped up a pig and gobbled it down.' Chintu the giant's Only Brother will eat everything in the village unless Tashi can stop him and things go terribly wrong when a stranger appears with a magic flute. In the...

Between the theories of business school and the real world of business, there is still a gap - one that can only be filled by experience, helped by the knowledge of someone who has already done it. Over a lifetime as one of the world's most influential...

In her second cookbook, Italian-born Silvia Colloca returns to the villages where she spent her childhood, in the regions of Abruzzo, Marche and Molise. In her second cookbook, Italian-born Silvia Colloca returns to the villages where she spent her...

The wisdom of the Bible is within your reach with this elegant and accessible study guide. Studying the Biblecan feel overwhelming, especially when you don't know where to begin. The Bible Study Guide for Beginners offers a simple, structured approach...

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, this is a witty, whistlestop tour through the history of Britain (for grown ups) - a ST bestseller with 30k+ hardbacks TCM since October. Horrible Histories author Terry Deary...

An oversized, expanded edition of Fantastic Four: Full Circle—the award-winning national bestseller, named Graphic Novel of the Year by the National Cartoonist Society and the Washington Post—with commentary and unpublished preparatory material from Alex...

Paisley and her friends love being Dream Keepers and making sure everyone in their sleepy town has sweet dreams. Even though Paisley's family has lived all over, Moon Wood is definitely her favourite place in the world. So when she discovers her family...

'Will burrow under your skin and live forever in your darkest dreams' Bust Joyce Carol Oates assembles a spectacular cast to explore, subvert and reinvent one of horror's most visceral of subgenres. Focusing on distortions of the human body, the fifteen...

Can you find all the Egyptian gods hidden in the scene? Or can you match these Roman busts to the description of famous emperors? Explore precious jewels, mosaics, statues and ceramics from across history and throughout the world and find out more about...

'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story ... a delight to read' Observer WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE, the moving and witty memoir on what it means to grow old. Written in her...

Create the coziest Christmas ever in this world of tiny-craft cuteness! With 6 cute holiday backgrounds and hundreds of adorable stickers, get ready to craft your way through the most wonderful time of the year. No stress, no screens-just pure cozy...

Two hundred years before the common era, Aphrodite surprises an itinerant sculptor with a shocking request: Hear my story, see me for who I truly am, and carve it into stone. Never before has the goddess posed for her likeness, and as the artist works,...

After Justice Maurice Tempest dies violently in the Glenrock State Conservation Area in Newcastle, local detective Senior Sergeant Callan O'Connor is urgently called to the scene. Days later a second body is found in the same location, turning what had...

Meet Mila. Sixteen years old, an ordinary LA girl . . . except for her A-list actor dad. With his next big movie premiere on the horizon, the media spotlight is intense - and when Mila's antics make headlines, something must be done. Exit Mila...

Roger Federer is almost universally recognised as the greatest tennis player of all time; he might also be the greatest athlete. Adored around the world, Federer has become one of sport's most iconic and popular figures. In this innovative graphic...

SOLVE THE CRIMES ONE WORD SEARCH PUZZLE AT A TIME! The mystery begins where the words go dark. Challenge yourself to a whole new kind of murder mystery with the classified case files of D.H. Myers - from before he went missing. In Search & Solve:...

I should have known something was wrong. I should have sensed it. Felt it in the air, like the build-up of pressure before a thunderstorm, that heavy, loaded calm. The curfewAndy and Laura are good parents. They tell their son Connor that he can go out...

For far too long the male protagonists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement have dominated accounts of this revolution in British art. This book aims to redress the balance in showing just how engaged and central women were to the endeavour - as the subjects...