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The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson $32.99 pb 2010 Man Booker Prize Winner

2010/2011

That Deadman Dance

Kim Scott $32.99 pb
Told through the eyes of black and white, young and old, Kim Scotts new novel is set in the first years of contact between the Noongar people, British colonists and American whalers. The book explores the lively fascination these people felt for one another. The novels hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby Wabalanginy. Clever, resourceful and eager to please, Bobby befriends the new arrivals, joining them as they hunt for whales, tilling the land, exploring the hinterland and establishing the fledgling colony. But slowly things begin to change. Bobby is forced to take sides: he must choose between the old world and the new, his ancestors and his new friends.

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. They have never quite lost touch with each other or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, whose unsuccessful record with women renders him an honorary third widower, they dine together at Libors grand, central London apartment. All three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. On his way home that evening Treslove is attacked. After this his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly change. The Finkler Question is a scorching story of exclusion and belonging, justice and love, ageing, wisdom and humanity. The novel captures the conflicts and contradictions that, in Jacobsons view, characterise the position of contemporary British Jews. While Treslove fiddles around with salt beef sandwiches and klezmer bands, Libor and Finkler find themselves, without the protection of marital and romantic love, cast into a world of such ambiguity and complication that their own identities come under threat.

The Weekend

Bernhard Schlink $29.99 hb

Jrg has spent 24 years in prison since his conviction for murder and several acts of terrorism on behalf of the radical left. When he is unexpectedly pardoned his sister Christiane organizes a reunion for a group of his old friends to welcome him back into society. Among those who attend are journalist Henner, whom Jrg believes betrayed him to the police; quiet Ilse, using the weekend to begin a novel about a common friends alleged suicide; and Marko, a young revolutionary keen to convince Jrg to speak out against the current government. As the weekend unfolds old jealousies simmer and unanswered questions come to the fore as the guests struggle to reconcile youthful ideals with what has become of their lives. Schlink dwells on the pasts grip on the present and the possibility or impossibility of redemption.

To The End Of The Land

David Grossman $35 pb
From one of Israels most acclaimed writers comes a novel about family life and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged mother, is getting ready to celebrate her son Ofers release from army service when he suddenly re-enlists and returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking she decides to go hiking in the Galilee, where she cannot be contacted by the notifiers who might inform her of her sons fate. Recently estranged from her husband Ilan, she decides to travel with Avram, their former best friend and her former lover. Avram was brutally tortured in the Yom Kippur War when serving in the military; since then he has lost contact with Ora and her family, even though he is Ofers biological father, but has never met his son. Now, as Ora and Avram travel through the hills and valleys, Ora gives Avram the gift of Ofer, supplying the story of her motherhood, a retelling that keeps Ofer alive for his mother and which opens Avram to human bonds undreamed of in his shattered world. Grossmans masterful novel describes the reality and surreality of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence about war and the burdens that fall on each generation anew.

Fall Girl

Toni Jordan $32.95 pb

Meet Ella Canfield, highly qualified evolutionary biologist. Attractive, if a little serious-looking in her heavy glasses, she is about to put her career on the line. Dr. Canfield is seeking funding for a highly unorthodox research project. She wants to prove that an extinct animal still roams in one of Australias most popular national parks. Now meet Daniel Metcalf, a goodlooking and expensively dishevelled millionaire. He is witty but far too rich to be taken seriously. Daniel heads the Metcalf Trust, an organization which donates money to offbeat scientific research projects. He also has an interest in animals that dont exist. Now for the problem: Dr Ella Canfield is in fact Della Gilmore, professional con artist, and she has never met anyone like Daniel Metcalf before. Trouble is brewing and someone is going to take a fall. This is a bright story from the author of Addition. It is about passion and loyalty, deceit and integrity, and the importance of believing in things that dont exist.

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Room
Emma Donoghue $32.99 pb
This is the story of five-year-old Jack. He lives with his beloved, and loving, mother in a room which is not like other rooms. It is a converted shed, locked and armoured, without windows, and Jack has never been outside it. His mother is kept prisoner in there by a man who Jack never sees. But Jack is growing up, and his mother makes a decision somehow or other she will enable Jack to escape and get help so that they can both return to the outside world. This is quite a task first Jack must become accustomed to the extraordinary idea that there is a world to escape to, and then he must be as brave and strong as any five-year-old can possibly be in order to cope with the ordeals of Outside.

The Empty Family

Colm Toibin $29.99 pb

In the nine stories that make up The Empty Family, Colm Toibin writes about lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals cast adrift from their history. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman who reluctantly returns to Dublin and discovers a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence, each of Toibins stories manages to contain whole worlds; stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained. From the particular crucible of his own life, Tibn has devised a schedule of the principal torments available to the educated, Left-leaning, upwardly mobile, male baby boomer in middle age.

Tom McCarthy $39.95 hb

C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who hurtles into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions, whose very air seems filled with cryptic and poetic signals of all kinds. When personal loss strikes him in his adolescence, this world takes on a darker and more morbid aspect. What follows is a tour-de-force in which the eerily idyllic settings of pre-war Europe give way to the exhilarating flight-paths of the frontline aeroplane radio operator, then the prison camps of Germany, the drug-fuelled London of the roaring twenties and, finally, the ancient tombs of Egypt. A sophisticated and sublimely imaginative novel which uncovers the hidden codes and dark rhythms that sustain life.

Sunset Park

Paul Auster $32.99 pb

Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of people caught up in the aftermath of the 2008 economic collapse. In the flatlands of Florida, Miles is photographing the lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. He is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother seven years ago. What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he prepares himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father. Sunset Park is above all a story about love and forgiveness not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons.

In A Strange Room

Damon Galgut $29.99 pb

In this autobiographical novel the narrator (also named Damon) describes three journeys he took as a younger man, one where he filled the role of the follower, one the lover, and one the guardian. And while each trip is distinct, involving different locations, travel companions, and challenges, certain themes resurface throughout Damons wanderings, including his unceasing drive to keep moving and his inability to form lasting relationships. Locating a solid core within this impermanence is what compels Damon to undertake his quests. Throughout Damons travels Galgut captures the essence of the travellers changing landscapes and moods while maintaining a simplicity that shades the stories with allegorical overtones. In a Strange Room is a beautiful and haunting meditation on loneliness and the unending drive to discover a deeper meaning of life.

Hand Me Down World

Lloyd Jones $32.95 pb
From the author of the beloved, bestselling Mister Pip comes a novel about a mothers search for her stolen child. A woman washes up on a beach in Sicily. She has come from Tunisia to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maids uniform and a homemade knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers some generous, some malevolent to guide her passage north. These strangers tell of their encounters with her, building her story in fragments of memory, prejudice and sentiment into a moving work of sacrifice and love. Hand Me Down World tells an epic story about the courage of a mother, the versions of truth to which we accommodate our lives, and loves ultimate power to redeem us. A novel you cant stop thinking about.

The Long Song : A Novel

Andrea Levy $29.99 pb
A British writer of Jamaican descent, Levy draws upon history to recall the islands slave rebellion of 1832. The narrator pretends to be telling the story of a woman called July, born as the result of a rape of a field slave, but it soon becomes obvious that the narrator is July herself. Taken as a house slave when she is eight years old, July is later seduced by the moralistic English overseer after he marries the plantations mistress. The narrative encompasses scenes of shocking brutality and mass carnage, but also humour, sometimes verging on farce. Levys satiric eye registers the venomous racism of the white characters and is equally candid in relating the degrees of social snobbery around skin colour among the blacks themselves, July included.

The Accident

Ismail Kadare $32.95 pb

A man and a woman, both Albanian migrs in Vienna, are on their way to the airport when their taxi overturns, killing them both. The driver regains consciousness a week later, and remembers seeing something disturbing in the rear-view mirror, but can only dimly articulate what it was. The two passengers, he stammers in confusion, seemed about to kiss. Set against the backdrop and bleak aftermath of the war in the Balkans, The Accident intimately documents an affair between two people caught up in each others intrigues. The intelligence services of both Serbia and Albania take an interest in the deaths, and the investigation into their demise uncovers a mutually destructive obsession that reflects the conflicts in the region

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Indelible Ink
Fiona McGregor $32.95 pb
Marie King is fifty-nine, recently divorced, and has lived a rather conventional life on Sydneys affluent north shore. Now her three children have moved out, the family home is to be sold, and with it her beloved garden. On a drunken whim, Marie gets a tattoo an act that gives way to an unexpected friendship with her tattoo artist, Rhys. Before long, Rhys has introduced Marie to a side of the city that clashes with her staid north-shore milieu. Her children are mortified by their mothers transformation, but they have their own challenges to deal with: workplace politics; love affairs old and new; and the real-estate market. Written with savage wit and keen eye, Indelible Ink uses one family as a microcosm for the changes operating in society at large.

When Colts Ran

Roger McDonald $32.95 pb

Roger McDonald follows the story of Kingsley Colts as he chases the ghost of himself through the decades, in and out of the lives and affections of the citizens of The Isabel, a slice of Australia scattered with prospectors, artists, no-hopers and visionaries. Against this spacious backdrop of sheep stations, timeless landscapes and the Five Alls pub, men play out their fates, conduct their rivalries and hope for the best. They are men shaped by the obligations and expectations of a previous generation, all striving to define themselves in their own language, and on their own terms. The book shows how loyalties shape us in the most unexpected ways and how men strike at beauty as they fall to the earth.

The Life Of An Unknown Man

Andrei Makine $32.99 pb
The writer Shutov returns to St Petersburg from France after twenty years in exile, hoping to reconnect with his roots and the woman he loved in his youth. He encounters Volsky, a fellow relic of the Communist era who relates his story: of surviving the Siege of Leningrad, the march on Berlin and Stalins purges and of a transcendent love affair. To Shutov, his story comes as a revelation, and an inspiration. Drawing on his own experience of growing up in the Soviet Union, Makine poses an unsettling question: for all its horrors, was life under Communism richer than it is now? An extraordinary story of love and endurance during the Siege of Leningrad lies at the heart of this novel about Russia past and present, and the human condition.

Fame

Daniel Kehlmann $29.95 pb

Fame dramatizes the alienating effects of seeing ones life reflected and refracted in the public eye. The book is presented as 'a novel in nine stories', but the connections between the tales are, for the most part, very loose. Characters pop up again, some scenes are seen again from a different perspective, but these tales don't blend together very obviously. The first story is about a man who finally gets a mobile phone, but finds he is receiving someone else's calls. The stories overlap in various ways: we meet the actor who should be the recipient of these phone calls but who becomes invisible without his phone and consequently becomes an impersonator of himself, while a later story clears up the number-mix-up that led to the technical problem in the first place. Deborah found the book intriguing in its construction and context and wanted to start reading Fame again in order to fully understand its complexities.

Nemesis

Philip Roth $35 hb *BiP Price $29.95

In 1944 a terrifying polio epidemic rages in New Jersey, threatening children with paralysis, lifelong disability and even death. Bucky Cantor, a sporty young playground director whose weak eyes have excluded him from active military service, faces the dilemmas of responsibility as polio begins to ravage the children in his care. He succumbs to fear, panic, anger and bewilderment as the disease spreads and his control over his charges and over his own life is taken out of his hands. Much later, in 1971, one of the survivors runs into Bucky, now a broken man, and hears the rest of Buckys story of bad luck, poor decisions and piercing guilt. Roth depicts a decent, energetic man with the best of intentions who struggles in his own private war against the epidemic. How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance?

The Hundred Foot Journey

Richard C Morais $27.99 pb
The Hundred-Foot Journey recounts the quest of a young Indian boy from Mumbai to become a renowned chef in pursuit of the coveted Michelin stars. Hassans childhood was rich with family and food, but tragedy hits the family however, and they leave India for good, setting up home in Southall, London. Before long the family embarks on an eccentric journey across Europe; when mechanical failure halts them in the town of Lumire, Papa promptly buys a vacant mansion, with plans to turn it into an Indian restaurant. However, the mansion is directly opposite a restaurant owned by the famous chef Madame Mallory, whose reputation for excellence is renowned. Madame Mallory is a formidable opponent, but will she be the equal of the Mumbaitoughened Papa?

By Nightfall

Michael Cunningham $27.99 pb

Peter and Rebecca Harris are in their mid-forties, married for nearly twenty years, both with committed careers in the arts. With a spacious loft in Soho, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites. Then Rebeccas much younger look-alike brother, Ethan (known in the family as Mizzy, the mistake), shows up for a visit. A beautiful, beguiling twenty-three-year-old, Mizzy is wayward, at a loose end and looking for direction. In his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his artists and their work, and his whole career. This new novel is a heart-breaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty and the place of love in our lives.

Notorious

Roberta Lowing $32.95 pb

The focal point of Roberta Lowings debut novel is a diary written by the French poet Rimbaud, who endured privation in the Sahara desert in 1890. Over the next one hundred and twenty years everyone who sees the diary will want to possess it. Only a nameless woman lying close to death in an asylum in a North African desert sees the true worth of the book. At its core this is a book about the transformative power of the desert and the effect on those who wish to unlock its secrets. Notorious is a literary mystery, a love story, a book of poetry and a tale of faith and chaos, redemption and destruction.

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Fiction
Snow Angels
James Thompson $32.99 pb
Finnish resident Thompsons first novel is set in northern Finland during Kaamos, the countrys two weeks of complete darkness. Inspector Vaara is newly married and about to become a father, but his American wife finds northern Finland depressing and lonely, especially after a young Somali movie star is brutally murdered, and the case consumes Vaaras days and nights. Vaara refuses to give up, even after finding out that his exwife might be involved. Thompsons portrait of Lapland in the depths of winter is starkly drawn; as an American who lives in Finland, he is able to make an insular society and a forbidding landscape comprehensible for readers who have never been in such an extreme climate.

Field Grey

Philip Kerr $32.95 pb

It is 1954 and Bernie has tired of his increasingly dangerous work spying for Cuban Intelligence. He buys a boat and sails to Florida, where hes arrested, sent back to Cuba and imprisoned. He meets Castro, and a French intelligence officer, Thibaud, who liaises between the CIA and French intelligence. Bernie finds himself flown back to Berlin with a proposition: work for the French or hang for murder. Bernies job is to meet and greet POWs returning from Germany. One of these is Edgard de Boudel, a French war criminal and member of the French SS, who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer. But Bernies past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him in a way he could never have foreseen.

Operation Napoleon

Arnaldur Indridason $32.95 pb *BiP Price $27.95

In 1945 the crew of a German bomber loses its way over Iceland in a blizzard. The plane eventually crashes on a glacier. On board are both German and American officers. A large force of American soldiers is despatched to find the crashed aircraft but only the planes nosewheel is found. In 1999 the US Army returns to secretly remove an aircraft from the glacier. Two young Icelanders become involved in the search and one of them contacts his sister, Kristin, with details of a discovery before he and his companion are killed. Kristens pursuit of the truth behind his murder places her in danger, but does not stop her from a hazardous journey which leads to the secret of Operation Napoleon. A gripping thriller from the Icelandic master of crime.

Harbour

John Ajvide Lindqvist $32.95 pb

Anders lost his six-year-old daughter on the island of Domar. He turned his back and she was gone: vanished from the winter ice, as if by magic. Two years later Anders returns to the island to confront his despair. He slowly realizes that Majas disappearance is not the first unexplained tragedy to strike the islanders. Nor is everyone telling him all they know; even his own grandmother seems to be keeping secrets. There is something bad happening on Domar, something that involves the sea itself. Lindqvists new novel is a cocktail of suspense, bizarre humour and a fastpaced narrative that races along. But it is also a story of loss and guilt that pits the infinite force of nature against the love of a father for his child. From the author of Let the Right One In.

American Subversive

The Death Instinct

David Goodwillie $32.99 pb

Part political thriller and part obsessive love story, American Subversive is a study of the paranoia of our times and its real untold dangers. Paige Roderick, devastated by the death of her beloved brother in Iraq, is an easy mark for home-grown terrorists who recruit her from the ranks of weekend environmental warriors. Separately, Aidan Cole, a failed journalism student turned Manhattan gossip blogger, is drawn into her radical orbit by a phantom from Americas radical past: a former member of the Weather Underground. In examining the connection between collective apathy and the roots of insurrection, Goodwillie has crafted an intoxicating story of two young Americans grasping for a foothold in a culture and a country that is crumbling around them.

Jed Rubenfeld $32.99 pb

Ten years on from The Interpretation of Murder, Stratham Younger and James Littlemore embark on a thrilling new adventure in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in New York. Stratham will journey to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, where he will once again encounter Sigmund Freud. At 12.01pm, September 16, 1920, a quarter-ton of explosives is detonated on New Yorks Wall Street. Stratham Younger witnesses the explosion alongside Captain James Littlemore of the NYPD and Colette Rousseaux, a young disciple of Marie Curie. Littlemores investigation will lead him into conflict with the FBI; meanwhile Stratham and Colette embark on a perilous journey to Vienna, where Freud will shed light on his theory of the human desire for destruction, even self-destruction, which he terms the death instinct.

How It Feels

Three Seconds

Brendan Cowell $32.99 pb

Brendan Cowells debut novel begins with Neil, his two mates Stuart and Gordon, and his girlfriend Courtney, celebrating the end of school and contemplating their new adult lives. The scene is set during twelve hours of partying twelve hours which sees lives changed, love unleashed, virginity lost and secrets buried. A decade later, one person is dead, one is famous, two are getting married and the truth is about to erupt. Wildly funny, brutal, tender and true, How It Feels is a coming-of-age story set in Sydneys Sutherland Shire with stopovers in Bathurst and London. It is a devastating ode to youth, capturing the beauty of growing up by the beach, and the darkness which moves beneath its surface.

Roslund and Hellstrom $32.95 pb

Piet Hoffman is the best undercover operative in the Swedish police force, but only one other man is even aware of his existence. When an amphetamine deal goes badly wrong, he is faced with the hardest mission of his life: to infiltrate Swedens most infamous maximum security prison. Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffmans real identity, he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath. But he cannot escape the feeling that vital information pertaining to the case has been withheld or manipulated. Hoffman has his insurance: wiretap recordings that implicate some of Swedens most prominent politicians in a corrupt conspiracy. But in Ewert Grens the powers that be might just have found the perfect weapon to eliminate him.

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Picture Books
The Legend of the Golden Snail
Graeme Base $29.95 hb
The Golden Snail of Spiral Isles is banished to the Ends of the Earth, so Wilbur sets out on a mission to free it, and along the way makes friends who save him from rough seas and mazes of madness. An imaginitive, enchanting adventure story in Graeme Bases signature style look out for hidden snail and crossbones in each picture. A special gift for 4+

Zog

Julia Donaldson $27.99 hb

Julia Donaldson! Need I say more? Zog, the accident prone young dragon, is as delightful and tender as Gruffalo, if not more. Another instant classic illustrated by Axel Schefler, boys and girls aged 3+ will love listening along to Zog.

Fancy Nancys Fabulous Fashion Boutique

Jane OConnor $19.99 hb
Fantabulous Fancy Nancy has opened a fabulous fashion boutique in her front garden hoping shell raise enough money to buy a fancy lace fan for herself. Nancys little sister has a birthday coming up, but the rhinestone necklace she had been admiring has been sold. How can Fancy Nancy save the day? 4+

Egg

Alex T Smith $28.99 hb

In need of a room, Egg rolls up at Beak House, home of Foxy Dubois. Foxy, always the host, is delighted by her unexpected visitor so she plans a perfect breakfast for herself! But it is Miss Dubois who is in for the big surprise because not all eggs hatch into little chickens! Quirky illustrations are sure to engage. 3+

Charlie & Lola Slightly Invisible

Lauren Child $28.99 hb
A new story for Charlie and Lola fans. Charlie and his friend Marv are brave adventurers, seeking out strange and tricky creatures. But they are constantly bothered by Lola. With the help of her invisible friend, Lola knows exactly how to help catch her brothers creatures. 5+

Ella Bella Ballerina and Swan Lake

James Mayhew $28.99 hb
Another charming Mayhew ballet story. Ella Bella stays behind in the old theatre after dance class. When she winds the little music box, Ella is all of a sudden surrounded by dancing swans. Odette, the Swan Princess, needs her help. Will Ella be able to break a wicked sorcerers spell and reunite Princess Odette with her one true love, her prince? The illustrations are exquisite. 4+

Otto : The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear

Tomi Ungerer $24.95 hb
A heartwarming story where good is found in the midst of war. Otto is a German-born teddy whose first memory is playing with Jewish boy David and his best friend Oskar. When David starts wearing a yellow star, he gives his Otto to Oskar before disappearing on a truck. Soon Otto and Oskar are also separated, and Otto ends up on the battlefield where he saves the life of an American soldier and becomes a national hero. Many years later Oskar discovers the bear in an antique store and is soon reunited with his old friend David. A brilliant, powerful tale. 6+ 5

Hullabazoo

Lisa Hollier $24.95 hb

In this rollicking, rhyming tale, a cage of clever crocs plan a cunning escape and before long all sorts of wild animals are running loose and the zookeepers are helpless! How will Lochlan save the day and put an end to the hullabaloo at the zoo? A crazy adventure! 3+

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Baby and Toddler

Noni The Pony
Alison Lester $24.99 hb Noni the pony is friendly and funny, her shimmering tail is the colour of honey. A fun rhyming story by an award winning Australian author and illustrator

Classics
Kate DiCamillo Collection : 4 Classic Tales
Kate DiCamillo $34.95 Newberry Award winner Kate DiCamillos classic novels for younger readers together for the first time in a boxed set. Includes Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tiger Rising, The Tale of Despereaux and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tullane. The perfect gift.

Old MacDonald Had A Farm

Illustrated by Mandy Foot $24.99 hb Children will enjoy singing along as they they discover a kangaroo, an emu and more on Old MacDonalds farm. An old favourite with an Aussie twist.

The Muddleheaded Wombat

Ruth Park $39.99 hb All four of Ruth Parks much-loved Muddleheaded Wombat stories in a new colour edition that features all the original line drawings. An Australian classic for every childs library.

Heads

Matthew van Fleet $24.99 hb Durable, interactive touch-and-feel companion to Matthew van Fleets bestselling Dog, Cat and Alphabet.

Little Prince Graphic Novel

Joann Sfar $29.95 hb This graphic adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exuperys iconic childrens book Le Petit Prince by French comic artist Joann Sfar is a striking modern take on a 60 year old classic.

Hettys Day Out

Pamela Allen $24.95 hb A charming counting book that follows Hetty the cats big day as she devours one plate of baked beans, two pork pies, three lamb chops. And thats just the beginning. Another Pamela Allen classic.

Orchard Book of Hans Christian Andersens Fairy Tales $34.99 hb

Nine favourite fairy tales retold by Martin Waddell. Emma Chichester Clarks glorious illustrations bring the stories to life, making this book a joy to share and a gift to treasure.

Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes for Your Baby

Mary Hoberman $29.99 hb Collection of over 60 traditional and modern nursery rhymes with illustrations by Penny Dann. Great gift for new babies.

Paddington Treasury for the Very Young

Michael Bond $34.99 hb The famous bear from darkest Peru is back! Six popular Paddington stories brought together in an illustrated hardback treasury.

Never Smile at a Crocodile Book + CD

Jack Lawrence $26.99 hb Three animal friends travel through swamps, jungles, cityscapes and circus arenas magically captured by Shane Devries vivid oil paintings.
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Story Of The Little Mole Soundbook

Werner Holzwarth $29.99 hb One morning what appears to be a sausage lands right on the little moles head. A hilarious modern classic now with sound.

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Younger Readers
Shadow
Michael Morpurgo $19.99 pb
Shadow is like no other dog. She is a friendly shadow, there for Aman and his mother as they flee the war in Afghanistan. That was 6 years ago. Now, in England and in Yarl Woods Detention Centre, Aman and his mother are to be deported. Help comes from a surprising quarter. This is a heartwarming story of bravery, loyalty and friendship. Michael Morpurgo is wonderful, and so is Shadow. A rewarding tale. 9+

The Search for Wondla

Tony DiTerlizzi $24.95 hb

Twelve year old Eva Nine has been raised underground by her robot called Muthr. She has never seen the sun or sky or another human before. When her home is destroyed and she is forced to the surface, she finds it inhabited by very strange aliens and she begins her search for other beings like herself. Another fantastic adventure from the author of The Spiderwick Chronicles. 9+

On The Blue Comet

Violet Mackerels Brilliant Plot

Anna Branford $19.95 hb
Meet Violet Mackerel, a very interesting little girl brimming with important ideas and brilliant plots and collector of small things. She stars in a delightful tale full of charm, love and friendship and a little blue china bird. For important little girls. 5+

Rosemary Wells $19.95 hb

Trains and time travel, mystery and adventure, On The Blue Comet has it all! Rosemary Wells gripping story and beautiful illustrations by Bagram Ibatoulline make this book a great gift for young readers. 9+

Older Readers
John Boyne $27.95 hb

Noah Barleywater Runs Away

Maze Runner

James Dashner $16.99 pb

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he remembers is his first name. His memory is blank, but he is not alone. The lift opens and he is surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade, a large open expanse surrounded by stone walls. Outside the walls lies a gigantic maze. All the Gladers know is that the stone doors open every morning and close every night and that every 30 days a new boy is delivered in the lift. This first book in a new trilogy is exciting and a little bit scary! 10+

When 8-year-old Noah Barleywater runs away from home, he embarks on a journey that will change him forever. Noah comes upon a toyshop like no other and the toymaker takes him in and shares the story of his unusual life and of his regrets about decisions he made and promises he failed to keep. There is magic to be found in this fable-like tale and Noahs story will stay with you long after reading. 10+

Rosie Black Chronicles 1 : Genesis

Lara Morgan $24.95 pb
Fisrt in an exciting new Australian trilogy, the Rosie Black Chronicles is a fast paced novel set 500 years in the future. When 16-year-old Rosie finds an unusual box, little does she know the trouble it will bring into her life. A mysterious organisation wants it back and will kill to get it. So Rosie is on the run, not knowing who to trust and she must learn the secrets of the box before its too late. A highly compelling read, I cant wait for book 2! 13+

Careful What You Wish For

Maureen McCarthy $15.99 pb
From a master storyteller, here is a warm and funny, yet heartfelt, novel for younger readers. 11-year-old Ruth is stuck with a family who just don't understand her. It takes a magical encounter with the sharp-nosed and evensharper-tongued Rodney the Rat to help her see what's really important. 11+

Young Adult
Elliot Allagash
Simon Rich $24.95 pb
Meet Seymour Herson, lonely, obedient 8th grade loser nicknamed Chunk Style. When a new friend whos obscenely rich and generous offers to turn him into the most popular kid in school, Seymour is introduced to new concepts like power, sabotage and vengence, and learns some important lessons about the value of money. Elliot Allagash is wryly amusing, cynical and a little sinister; in other words, a must read! 14+

Good Oil

Lauren Buzo $18.99 pb

Amelia Hayes is 15 and has just started an after school job at Woolworths. There she meets Chris who is funny, charming and intelligent and Amelia falls in love for the first time. However Chris is 21, at Uni and likes going to the pub with mates or parties with friends. Can a relationship work between them given the six year age gap? The Good Oil is a bittersweet coming of age story and is one of my favourite reads this year. 15 +

The Blending Time

Michael Kinch $16.99
In 2069, turning 17 means dangerous but mandatory Global Alliance work. This dystopian novel is about three steeners fighting for their lives in a world ravaged by plagues and environmental disasters who are sent to Africa to help rebuild and repopulate the country after a devestating solar flare. Pacy, clever and exciting; the first in a new trilogy. 15+

Bright Young Things

Anna Godbersen $19.95 pb

In search of fame and family, Letty and Cordelia have escaped their small Midwestern town for the glittering metropolis of 1929 Manhattan, a city ruled by flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams. From the bestselling author of The Luxe comes a new series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age. 15+

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Pop-Up : A Paper Engineering Masterclass
Ruth Wickings $39.95 hb Encourage children to be creative with this fun and unique paper engineering masterclass. With step-bystep instructions, kids can assemble four amazing preprepared pop-ups.

Boxed Sets
Suzanne Collins $49.95

The Hunger Games Trilogy

The groundbreaking triology is now complete and available in a box set. Stunning, gripping and powerful, boys and girls alike will be blown away by this series.

Childrens Book of Music

My Top Secret EJ12 Girl Hero Giftbox

Susannah McFarlane $29.99 Special Agent EJ12 cracks codes and foils evil plans all over the world. EJ12 is Emma Jacks. Saving the world is the easy part.

Dorling Kindersley $29.95 hb Children will discover the power of music with this comprehensive introduction to the worlds most amazing music and its creators. With activities and an interactive CD this is the perfect present for all budding musicians.

Space Scout Jet Pack

H Badger $29.95 From the creators of Zac Power comes the first four Space Scout books, great for emerging readers, packaged in a cool backpack.

Movie Maker

Tim Granham $34.95 hb Cool clapper-board box complete with directors handbook, special effects and storyboard book, and a sound effects CD.

Koala Lou Book and Toy

Mem Fox $29.95 An Aussie classic published again in a hardback gift set with adorable plush Koala Lou toy.

Star Wars Year by Year : A Visual Chronicle $69.95 hb

Celebrate four decades of all things Star Wars with this stylish slipcased edition featuring two exclusive posters. All Star Wars fans will love this book!

Very Cranky Bear Book and Toy

Nicholas Bland $24.99 Also available in hardback The Very Itchy Bear $15.99

Angelina Ballerinas Pop-Up and Play Sleepover Party

Katherine Holabird $29.95 hb Angelina and Alice are having their very first sleepover and Angelina has a special activity planned: a bedtime dance show!

Non Fiction
True Colours - Adam Gilchrist $19.99 pb I Wish I Knew That - Buster Books $16.99 hb Australia and World Records 2011 $14.99 Whitakers World of Facts 2011 $35 hb

Who Do You Think You Are?

Based on BBC TV Series $34.95 Inspire young geneaology detectives to create a family tree that will give them insight into their ancestry.
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The Romantic
Kate Holden $34.95 pb
In search of Romantics, Romance and Herself, Kate arrives in Rome armed with her notebook and dreams of Byron and Shelleys Italy. With her usual wit and searing honesty, she leads us through her year of encounters with sad, dangerous and heart-warming men. Kates year in Italy teaches her a lot about herself and the politics of sex versus love and romance. Through her eyes we see the back streets of Rome and Naples, in all their gritty reality. In this spellbinding follow up to In My Skin, Kate allows us to experience some of the highs and lows, the fun and loneliness of her year in Italy.

And Furthermore

Judi Dench $49.99 hb *BiP Price $34.95

From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery Plays it was clear that acting would be her career. Trained at Londons Central School of Speech and Drama, it was her performance in her twenties as Juliet in Franco Zeffirellis memorable Old Vic production that turned her into a star. She became a household name via television, thanks initially to a sit-com, A Fine Romance, in which she played alongside the actor Michael Williams, whom she married in 1971. She has since made nine series of the beloved sit-com, As Time Goes By. Her film credits include Ladies In Lavender (opposite Maggie Smith), Notes on a Scandal and Shakespeare in Love, in which she played Queen Elizabeth, a role which gained her a Hollywood Oscar. Light, readable and amusing, Judi recounts her life in the theatre and acting career in intimate detail.

How To Make Gravy

Paul Kelly $49.95 hb *BiP Price $39.95

This is a memoir like no other. Each of its hundred chapters, presented in alphabetical order by song title, consists of lyrics followed by a story, the nature of the latter taking its cue from the former. Some pieces are confessional, some tell Kellys personal and family history, some take you on a road tour with the band, some form an idiosyncratic history of popular music, some are like small essays, some stand as a kind of how-to of the songwriters art from the point of inspiration to writing, honing, collaborating, performing, recording and reworking. How to Make Gravy is a long volume thats as tight as a three-piece band. There isnt a topic this man cant turn his pen to contemporary music and the people who play it, football, cricket, literature, opera, social issues, love, loss, poetry, the land and the history of Australia.

Bligh : Master Mariner

Rob Mundle $49.99 hb
Meet a 24-year-old Master Bligh as he witnesses the demise of his Captain and mentor Cook; a 34-year-old Lieutenant Bligh at the helm of the famous Bounty then cast adrift by Fletcher Christian on an epic 47-day open-boat voyage from Tonga to Timor; and a 36-year-old Captain Bligh as he takes HMS Providence, in the company of a young Matthew Flinders, on a grand scientific voyage around the world. And all this before he was forty. Rob Mundles Bligh puts you at the heart of a great nautical life it is a story that embraces the romance of the sea, bravery in battle, the adventure of exploration under sail and the cost of having the courage of your convictions.

Lazarus Rising

John Howard $59.99 hb

This book looks back over 30 years in politics, and at the changes Howard has seen both inside and outside Government during that time. From his modest beginnings, to his steep ascent in Liberal Party ranks, and subsequent time in the wilderness during the Coalitions opposition years, to a victory almost no one had predicted, and on to some of the most tumultuous years in Australias recent past, this is history seen through the eyes of the ultimate insider.

Coco Chanel : The Legend and the Life

Justine Picardie $45 hb
In this book, Justine Picardie brings the mysterious Gabrielle Chanel out of hiding, to celebrate her great achievements, at the same time as casting a clear eye over her transgressions. She examines Chanels enduring afterlife, as well as her remarkable life, uncovering the consequences of what she covered up, unpicking the seams between truth and legend, yet keeping intact the real fabric of her past.

Backstage Politics

Phillip Adams $32.95 pb

Phillip Adams has been close to governments of various persuasions for over fifty years. Having been a confidant or a fierce opponent of many of Australias most influential figures over that time, he has built up an unparalleled collection of anecdotes about our political and cultural leaders. Backstage Politics is also something of a personal memoir, tracing Adams life in politics, media and the arts over the years. To make the collection complete, he even invited the pollies themselves to submit their stories, the most enthusiastic respondent, not surprisingly, being Senator Barnaby Joyce. From Menzies to Rudd, via Gorton, Fraser, Hawke, Keating, Hanson and Howard, Backstage Politics takes us on a funny, insightful and revealing journey through the Australian political landscape

Edith Head : Hollywoods Greatest Costume Designer

Jay Jorgensen $95 hb
Scores of iconic films of the last century had one thing in common: costume designer Edith Head (18971981). Over the course of a fiftyyear career she received an unprecedented 35 Oscar nominations and 400 film credits. Never before has the account of Hollywoods most influential designer been so thoroughly revealed because for the first time the Edith Head Archives of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were made available to the author. This unprecedented access allows this book to be a one-of-a-kind survey, bringing together a spectacular collection of rare and never-before-seen sketches, costume test shots, behind-the-scenes photos and ephemera.

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Speeches That Changed The World
Simon Sebag Montefiore $34.95 pb
This bestseller is now available with footage of some of historys greatest speeches. The DVD provides genuine historical footage of twenty of the most significant speeches of the 20th century and is accompanied by an illustrated book which contains the transcripts of these and over 30 other momentous orations from throughout history. Complete with biographies of each speaker and the stories of why the world changed as a result, this is a fascinating history of humanity told through the speeches that shaped it. The book contains speeches by Moses, Jesus, St. Francis of Assisi, John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Lincoln, John Kennedy, George W. Bush, Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Emperor Hirohito, Golda Meir, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Malcolm X, and Elie Wiesel among many others.

Street Fight in Naples

Peter Robb $49.99 hb
Naples is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. Their ancestors came from all over the early Mediterranean to the wide bay and its islands, shadowed by a dormant volcano. Peter Robbs Street Fight in Naples ranges across nearly three thousand years of Neapolitan life and art, from the first Greek landings in Italy to his own less auspicious arrival thirty-something years ago. In 1503 Naples became the Mediterranean capital of Spains world empire. It was a European metropolis matched only by Paris and Istanbul, an extraordinary concentration of military power, lavish consumption, poverty and desperation. As the occupying empire went into crisis the people of Naples paid a dreadful price.

Three Famines

Tom Keneally $49.95 hb *BiP Price $36.95

Thomas Keneally recounts the history of three great famines. The first is an Gorta Mr, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846. The second is the less well-known but more deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in lethal form in the 1970s under Emperor Haile Selassie and then again under the brutal dictator Mengistu in the 1980s. Tom Keneally shares these three shocking histories with his customary wisdom, and he presents a controversial theory: in all three famines, ideology, the mindsets of governments, racial preconceptions and administrative incompetence were, ultimately, more lethal than the initiating blights, the loss of potatoes or rice or grain.

Crimea : The Last Crusade

Orlando Figes $59.95 hb
Orlando Figes new book Crimea brings to light the conflict that dominated the mid-19th century. The Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a fervent belief that it was Russias task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land. Figes chronicles the experiences of the participants, from the ordinary British soldier in his snow-filled trench, to the haunted, gloomy figure of Tsar Nicholas as he searches for religious salvation.

The Death of King Arthur

Peter Ackroyd $49.95 hb
An immortal story of chivalry, treachery and death brought to new life for our times. The legend of King Arthur has retained its appeal and popularity through the ages: Mordreds treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelots fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guinevere, and the quest for the Holy Grail. Now retold by Peter Ackroyd with his signature clarity, charm and relish for a good story, the result is not only one of the most readable accounts of the knights of the Round Table but also one of the most moving. Peter Ackroyd has dismantled and reassembled Thomas Malorys original text from around 1485 and has intensified it for a modern audience, reinvigorating the main characters of the saga, such as Merlin, Lancelot, Queen Guinevere and Tristram and Isolde.

The Korean War

Cameron Forbes $49.99 hb

The Korean War was a twentieth-century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the worlds most secretive, belligerent and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into violence on a peninsula dense with arms, munitions and nuclear warheads. Cameron Forbes tells the story of the war and Australias involvement in it, using the letters and diaries of those diggers who fought across Koreas unforgiving hills and mountains. He describes the grand strategies formulated in Washington, Moscow and Beijing, revealing the conflict on all its levels human, military and geopolitical. Cameron Forbes new book will serve as the definitive history of the Korean War.

Greek Pilgrimage

John Carroll $29.95 pb

Greek Pilgrimage is a meditation on classical Greece, journeying through its great sites, monuments, and cultural works. On the way, it examines the countrys pivotal role in the foundation of the modern world. The ancient Greeks invite us to think about who we are, and the best ways to organise ourselves, to build institutions, and to make our cities beautiful. They lead us to debate the world we inhabit, questioning the meaning of it all. They have bequeathed to us science and philosophy, drama and sport, our engagement with nature, and much else that graces our modern world. Greek Pilgrimage is also a practical guide for the modern traveller to Greece.

The Party Thieves Barrie Cassidy $34.99 pb

When Barrie Cassidy first started thinking about this book, Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd were leaders of their parties. Within six months, both men had been deposed. Cassidy contends that both men stole their parties away: Turnbull by insisting on a climate change policy that the majority hated; Rudd by his authoritarian rule and disregard for MPs and party members. Cassidy contends that the removal of Kevin Rudd in the lead-up to the 2010 election ranks with the Dismissal, the disappearance of Holt and the day Fraser called an election as one of the four big stories in Australian politics in the last 50 years. The Party Thieves is an analysis of a tumultuous eight months in politics and the impact on the party and the population.

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Non-Fiction
The Pen and the Stethoscope
Leah Kaminsky (ed) $32.95 pb
The Pen and the Stethoscope is a unique collection of fiction and non-fiction by doctorwriters that gives us a fascinating look behind the doctors mask and gets inside the minds of those who deal with enormous existential issues and traumatic situations on a daily basis. It is through writing that many doctors have plumbed the depths and richness of their experience. This book takes a critical look at doctors close observations on their working lives. With a foreword by Jerome Groopman, contributors include Oliver Sacks, Atul Gawande, Irvin Yalom, Jacinta Halloran, Peter Goldsworthy, Robert Jay Lifton, Danielle Ofri, Perri Klass, Nick Earls, Ethan Canin, Sandeep Jauhar, and Leah Kaminsky.

Conversations With Myself

Nelson Mandela $54.99 hb
Conversations With Myself draws on Mandelas personal archive of never-before-seen materials to offer unique access to the inner world of an incomparable world leader. Journals kept on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle of the early 1960s; diaries and draft letters written on Robben Island and in other South African prisons during his twenty-seven years of incarceration; notebooks from the post-apartheid transition; private recorded conversations; speeches and correspondence written during his presidency a historic collection of documents brought together in a sweeping narrative of great immediacy and stunning power. An intimate journey from Mandelas first stirrings of political conscience to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations With Myself illuminates a heroic life forged on the front lines of the struggle for freedom and justice.

Parkys People : The Interviews

Michael Parkinson $49.99 hb
A revealing account of some of Parkys most unforgettable encounters and the moments that made TV history. He sets down on record the highlights of his interviews which provide an intimate insight into the private lives and personal characters of great celebrities from John Lennon and Clint Eastwood, George Michael and Roald Dahl, to George Clooney and Barry Humphries. Now an international celebrity himself, the man from a humble but colourful Yorkshire mining family has teased the secrets out of even the most reticent star guests, such as Fred Astaire and Ingrid Bergman, and he has drawn fascinating new information and insights from even the most frequently interviewed subjects like Peter Ustinov, David Niven and Stephen Fry. With a little help from his friends, Parkys People is witty, always perceptive, often wise, and never less than compulsive reading.

The World From Down Under

George Negus $35 pb
George Negus was a high-school teacher before he wrote for The Australian and The Australian Financial Review. Now he is a much-respected familiar face on Australian television. Negus is also an accomplished author who first showed us the world from Italy, and then from Islam. Now in The World From Down Under, George Negus shares with us his unique Australian internationalist perspective on the big issues affecting our country today. Drawing on his own travels and extensive journalistic background, Negus explores climate change, poverty, politics, war, indigenous affairs, and the role of women, as well as some lighter stuff.

Scribble, Scribble, Scribble

Simon Schama $55 hb
In this provocative collection of journalistic observations, Simon Schama covers a wide range of topics from history and current events, to art, travel, film and even food. There is nothing and no one, from Barack Obama to ice cream that this man doesnt have an opinion on. One of the foremost historians of the his era, Schama expands his repertoire with this readable and entertaining collection of diverse commentaries. This selection of his occasional writings is a treasure trove of surprises. Never predictable, always stimulating, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, allows us to view to world in all its diversity.

Toute Allure

Karen Wheeler $26.95 pb

After reaching the heights as a successful fashion editor, Karen said goodbye to all that and set about renovating a run-down house in rural Poitou-Charentes, in central western France, and living a simpler life. Her idyll is almost complete when she is blissfully ensconced in her fully plumbed, tiled, floored and warm as the hug of a pashmina Maison Coquelicot until a gang of macho Portuguese builders, a procession of Brits behaving badly and the ghosts of boyfriends past begin to arrive on her doorstep. Karen soon finds her (dancing) feet in the small rural community when she discovers the key to acceptance is le danse country. And after a few shuffles and twirls she meets the love of her life he has dark, shaggy hair, four paws and a wet nose

The Minds Eye

Oliver Sacks $34.99 pb

In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in The Minds Eye, he writes about the myriad ways in which we experience the visual world: how we see in three dimensions; how we recognize individual faces or places; how we use language to communicate verbally; how we translate marks on paper into words and paragraphs, even how we represent the world internally when our eyes are closed. Alongside remarkable stories of people who have lost these abilities, Sacks chronicles his own experience living with cancer and the effects of a malignant tumor in one eye. In turning himself into a case history, Sacks has given us perhaps his most intimate, impressive and insightful book yet.

Secret Life of France

Lucy Wadham $24.99 pb

At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French educational system and divorced in a French court of law, Wadham is perfectly placed to explore the differences between Britain and France. Using both her personal experiences and the lessons of French history and culture, she examines every aspect of French life from sex and adultery to money, happiness, race and politics in this funny and engrossing account of France.

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Gift Ideas
Here On Earth
Tim Flannery $34.95 pb
Tim Flannerys first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrous effects on many of the Earths ecosystems and could lead to our downfall. But equally, Flannery argues, we are now equipped as never before to explore our true relationship with the planet on which our biological, economic and cultural futures depend. Here on Earth is not just a dazzling account of life on our planet. It will change the way you live.

The Secret of Chanel No. 5

Tilar Mazzeo $35 pb
Blending strong personal narrative with thoughtful research, The Secret History of Chanel No. 5 takes the reader on a journey of discovery into the legend of this iconic perfume and, along the way, untangles something about our own relationship to luxury and sensual pleasure. Taking alternately historical, personal, scientific, and commercial approaches to solve the riddle of Chanel No. 5s unprecedented popularity, this is an intimate and engaging account of what it means to explore the multi-faceted nature of any cultural icon, and of the narrative power of luxury itself.

Eucalypts : A Celebration
J Wrigley & M Fagg $65 hb
Eucalypts are a familiar part of our landscape and an integral part of the Australian identity. This book celebrates their diversity, their beauty and the role they play in our history, culture and economy. It looks at their evolution, biology, horticulture and ecology, together with their classification and the botanists involved. Through historic and contemporary images, this book examines the many ways in which they have served Aboriginal, colonial and contemporary Australians in both practical and aesthetic ways.

Dreaming of Chanel

Charlotte Smith $35 hb

Inheriting a priceless vintage collection sounds like every womans dream come true, but when Charlotte Smith discovered that her late American godmother, Doris Darnell, had made her custodian of more than three thousand pieces dating from 1790 to 1995, including originals by Chanel and Dior, she was more than a little daunted. In Dreaming of Dior, Charlotte shared some of her treasures and the stories of the women who wore them for the first time. Now, in Dreaming of Chanel with special appearances by Chanel, Vivienne Westwood, Zandra Rhodes, Pucci, Akira and many more, Charlotte offers another unforgettable glimpse inside the magic wardrobe every woman would love to own.

Seasons In My House and Garden

A Life In Frocks

Holly Kerr Forsyth $49.99 pb

Beloved gardening writer Holly Kerr Forsyth takes readers from her garden into the home and kitchen. Season by season, and month by month, Holly shares her gardening secrets and hard-won wisdom from years in the garden. Inside the house, Holly offers ideas on how to transform produce into beautiful dishes, as well as tips for flower arranging, table setting, and more. Fully illustrated throughout, and with useful identifying pictures for flowers and produce, Seasons In My House and Garden is the perfect companion for gardeners experienced and novice, homemakers and keen cooks.

Kelly Doust $29.95 pb

A Life in Frocks is about the divine obsession a womans love for clothes. In particular, it is a personal, entertaining, joyous and seductive exploration of the significance of clothes, filtered through one womans life-long sartorial infatuation. A beautifully illustrated mix of memoir, philosophies and fantasies, A Life in Frocks is a book for those who love clothes and find fashion beguiling, fickle and fabulous.

2010 BiP Staff Favourites

Chris Deborah Cathy Christine Elizabeth Karen Kristy Leonie Penny Simon Sue War - Sebastian Junger Let The Great World Spin - Colum McCann Chaos Walking 3: Monsters Of Men - Patrick Ness The Waiting Room - F G Cottam Midnight Zoo - Sonya Hartnett Nothing To Envy: North Korea - Barbara Demick Beautiful Malice - Rebecca James Grand Hotel - Gregory Day Lights Out in Wonderland - D B C Pierre The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel - Philip Pullman Traitor - Stephen Daisley

21st Century Houses Downunder

Mark Cleary $49.95 hb
An invaluable reference for anyone interested in quality architecture and contemporary living, this latest additing to Images 21st Century series presents a diverse sample of contemporary Australian and New Zealand architecture from rural retreats and scenic lakeside residences to chic city dwellings and suburban family homes.

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