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Jolt

by Bernard Beckett

Marko surfaces from a drug-induced haze to find himself hidden from the world in a psychiatric ward. He is certain the 'Doctor' means to kill him, and he in turn has vengeful plans of his own. Who can Marko...

Zero Hour

by Leon Davidson

Winner of the NZ Post Children's Book Awards, non-fiction category and shortlisted for the CBCA Children's Book Awards, 2011. The First World War was only meant to last six months. When the Australians and New...

The Dinkum Dictionary

by Susan Butler

Boiling the billy in the outback; planting a wattle in the nature strip; saying g'day to a dingbat. The Dinkum Dictionary tells the stories behind the origins of a rich mix of distinctly Australian words and...

Between Sky and Sea

by Herz Bergner

Fleeing the Nazi invasion of Poland, a group of Jewish refugees are thrown together on a dilapidated Greek freighter, bound for Australia and a new life. Tensions rise as they try to cope with a profound sense...

The Crime of Huey Dunstan

by James McNeish

A young man stands in the dock accused of a brutal murder, apparently motiveless. When Professor Chesney, a trauma psychologist, is called as an expert witness he is at first baffled. As Ches delves into Huey's...

The Glorious Cause

by Jeff Shaara

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

by Mary Wollstonecraft & Katha Pollitt

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes...

Capital: Melbourne When It Was the Capital City of Australia 1901-28

by Kristin Otto

An original and intriguing history of Melbourne at the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, illustrated throughout with contemporary drawings and photos. In 1901, as the world hurtled into a new era, this...

The Catastrophe Continues

by John Clarke

Seen every Thursday on the ABC's 7.30 Report, John Clarke and Bryan Dawe are an Australian institution. Here are the best of the mock interviews between prominent and newsworthy figures about issues of the day,...

The 7.56 Report

by John Clarke

The inimitable John Clarke is back with another hilarious collection of the highs and lows in Australian politics. Here are the interviews with Australia's leading citizens, drawn from John Clarke and Bryan...

The Even More Complete Book of Australian Verse

by John Clarke

In a single edition the history of literature is turned upside down by the revelation that the world's great poets were, in fact, all Australians. Long suspected, this is now confirmed by carbon dating and DNA...

The Howard Miracle

by John Clarke

Every Thursday evening, at the end of ABC TV's 7:30 Report, John Clarke and long-time collaborator Bryan Dawe conduct a mock interview in which they satirise a current political issue or personality. In The...

The Murder in the Tower: The Story of Frances, Countess of Essex

The Stuart Saga #3

by Jean Plaidy

The dashing Robert Carr is a well-known favorite of King James I. After attracting his attention by falling from a horse in the tiltyard, Robert rises quickly through the ranks. But when the cunning and beautiful...

The Getting of Wisdom

by Henry Handel Richardson

One of the most memorable characters in Australian fiction, Laura Rambotham, aged twelve, enters the portals of an exclusive girls' school eager to be accepted. But this precocious country girl is snubbed and...

Madame Midas

by Fergus Hume

When the suave French convict Gaston Vandeloup escapes to the goldfields of Ballarat, he is destined to meet the remarkable Madame Midas, who has made her fortune in Ballarat's fabulous mines. But her wealth...

Where is Here?

by Tim Flannery

Where is Here? is a concise version for young adults of Flannery's classic anthology, The Explorers. The explorers of Australia were many and varied, beginning with Indigenous Australians. In these exciting,...

The Life and Adventures of William Buckley

by Tim Flannery

William Buckley, soldier and escaped convict, is the legendary wild white man of colonial Australia. In 1803 he escaped from the official settlement in Victoria. For 32 years he lived with local Aborigines before...

The Birth of Melbourne

by Tim Flannery

In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was a temperate Kakadu, teeming with wildlife and with soils rich enough to spawn pastoral empires. With the discovery...

Murderer's Thumb

by Beth Montgomery

Murderer's Thumb is a haunting page-turner for young adults, an enthralling story of a close-knit community dealing with a mysterious crime. Adam and his mother are new to Falcon Ridge, a small Australian farming...

The Birthmark

by Beth Montgomery

The Birthmark interweaves the stories of two generations on the fictional island of Tevua. In 1942 young lovers struggle to survive the brutal Japanese occupation; in 2004 teenagers Hector and Lily fight  boredom,...