This is the true story of how one moment in time, by the thinnest thread of a chance, changed the course of a small boy's life in ways that are beyond description. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world. One da...

Mao's Last Dancer

Australia's best-selling nonfiction author of all time. Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below,...

Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age

From Sailor to Legend - the story of Captain James Cook.   Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers of all time. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the 18th century, Cook unravelled t...

Captain James Cook

One day, not so very many years ago, a small peasant boy was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. His mother urged him to take this chance of a lifetime. But Li was only eleven years old and he was scared and lonely, pushed away from ...

An authorized biography of one of the world's greatest spiritual leaders. Written with the full co-operation of the Dalai Lama, this fascinating, up-to-date biography captures the public persona and enduring mystery behind one of the world's most important spiritual leaders.

Dalai Lama

On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their governments on the same quest: to explore the uncharted c...

The Great Race

Simultaneous release of the updated edition featuring new introductory material. Ned Kelly the man - warts and all - the most vivid portrait yet of Australia's immortal outlaw! Author, Ian Jones, acknowledged Kelly authority, shares with us the resul...

Ned Kelly

Eagerly anticipated prequel to the international best-selling Tales of the Otori. Heaven's Net is Wide is the first and last tale that both closes the circle and introduces readers to the strange and beautiful world of the Otori. It is an epic historical fantasy of revenge and betrayal, honour and loyalty, beauty and passion and the overwhelming power of love, set in a mystical, medieval Japan, which will enthral readers the world over.

Heaven's Net is Wide

For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers lived their lives - if they survived - in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them. In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently...

Finding Sanity

Unlock progress through doubt and uncertainty.  The biggest threat facing modern business is the sheer complexity of an uncertain future. That, and the fact that everyone is busy. Too busy for progress.  Workplace cultures have become cursed with eff...

How to Lead a Quest

On remote Rollrock Island, the sea-witch Misskaella discovers she can draw a girl from the heart of a seal. So, for a price, any man might buy himself a bride; an irresistibly enchanting sea-wife.   But what cost will be borne by the people of Rollro...

Sea Hearts

The Sydney Hobart Yacht Race - the story of one of the world's greatest sporting challenges.   The Sydney to Hobart yacht race is one of the world's major sporting events. In 1998, it became one of the world's major sporting disasters. Six sailors tr...

The Sydney Hobart Yacht Race

In November 2010 came the announcement that the nation had been waiting for: Prince William is to marry Kate Middleton. The couple had become engaged in October while they holidayed in Kenya, and the news further proved that their love story has capt...

William and Kate, the Love Story

For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his historic voyage that European mariners began their romance with the immensity of the Australian continent. ...

Great South Land

Why do good things happen to bad people? Can we prove whether God exists? What is the difference between right and wrong? Medieval philosophers were centrally concerned with such questions, questions which are as relevant today as a thousand years ag...

Medieval Philosophy: Bolinda Beginner Guides

A fast-paced, witty and gripping historical crime series from Tom Keneally and his eldest daughter, Meg.  In the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, at the edge of the known world, gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedo...

The Soldier's Curse

The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild animals in the snow.  It is a luminous encounter between civilisation and nature.   In the first cent...

An Imaginary Life

The acclaimed biography of James Packer. James Packer turns to Greek mythology in an attempt to explain the most exciting yet tumultuous period of his 50 years on earth. "I was like Icarus," the billionaire tells his biographer, journalist Damon Kitn...

The Price of Fortune

Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s.  Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures.  Life is a precarious business...

South of Darkness

The 15th century saw the evolution of a distinct and powerfully influential European artistic culture. But what does the familiar phrase “Renaissance Art” actually refer to? Through engaging discussion of timeless works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo, Tom Nichols offers a masterpiece of his own as he explores the truly original and diverse character of the art of the Renaissance.

Renaissance Art: Bolinda Beginner Guides

Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame.  Ali...

Shame and the Captives

Not all murder victims are mourned, but the perpetrator must always be punished....  For Robert Church, superintendent of the Parramatta Female Factory, the most enjoyable part of his job is access to young convict women. Inmate Grace O'Leary has mad...

The Unmourned

Melkin Womper is thrilled to escape his dull future as a village weaver and develop his artis-tic talent when he's apprenticed to Ambrosius Blenk, one of Vlam's most famous masters. Mel is especially excited by the colors that he'll be able to use, s...

Mirrorscape

George Pell: leader of the Catholic Church in Australia, confessor to Tony Abbott. David Marr: the nation's leading biographer and investigative journalist. Cardinal George Pell is the most prominent Catholic leader in Australia at a time when the Ch...

Quarterly Essay 51: The Prince: Faith, Abuse & George Pell

A biography of unprecedented expedition under sail, from Australia's master of maritime history.  The role of the sailor through history should never be underestimated. Over centuries battles were won and new lands discovered and settled by their ski...

The First Fleet

A thrilling adventure filled with fantastical creatures in an incredible secret world. Step into the Mirrorscape and explore the secret world behind the paintings. A dangerous world where anything is possible...a thrilling and inventive adventure for...

A young boy caught in the conflict between early British settlers and native Aborigines witnesses the barbaric tensions that bedevilled the birth of a nation in this profound and mythical novel.  In the 1840s, a ship's boy, cast ashore in northern Au...

Remembering Babylon

A nail-biting thriller that turns popular true-crime such as Serial and Making a Murderer on its head, Greenlight shocks with twists and turns you’ll never see coming.  Four years ago Eliza Dacey was brutally murdered. Within hours, her killer was ca...

Greenlight

Being the skipper of the cutter that carries all supplies and communications between Tasmania and Maria Island is a powerful position - and a deadly one.  Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney are sent to Maria Island in January of 1826, the very early days of...

The Power Game

A biography of unprecedented expedition under sail, from Australia's master of maritime history.   The role of the sailor through history should never be underestimated. Over centuries battles were won and new lands discovered and settled by their sk...

How the mighty clipper ships transformed Australia from convict outpost to a nation. More than one million Australians can trace their heritage to the migrant ships of the mid- to late 19th century.  The story of the clipper ships, and the tens of th...

Under Full Sail

From sailor to legend - the story of Captain James Cook, one of the greatest maritime explorers of all time.  Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the 18th century, Cook unravelled the oldest mystery surro...

The Apostle Paul has shaped the course of Christian ethics for centuries and is widely regarded as the most influential theologian in the Christian tradition. In this authoritative introduction, Morna D. Hooker offers a female perspective on a figure...

Paul: Bolinda Beginner Guides

A thrilling adventure filled with fantastical creatures in an incredible secret world. Step into the Mirrorscape and explore the hidden world behind the paintings. It's a dangerous world where anything is possible. This is a thrilling and inventive a...

Mirrorstorm

An astonishing examination of male friendship, set in Australia's wheatbelt.  Western Australia, the wheatbelt. Lew McLeod has been travelling and working with Painter Hayes since he was a boy. Shearing, charcoal burning - whatever comes. Painter mad...

Coming Rain

In the spirit of The Daughters of Mars, Tom Keneally's new novel brilliantly explores the intimacies of ordinary lives being played out against momentous world events. In Gawell, New South Wales, a prisoner-of-war camp to house European, Korean and J...

Trapped behind barbed wire in an alien land, a man used to guarding his secrets is compelled to set the record straight....  Imagine a faraway country that was once a friend of the West becoming the enemy, its people isolated and savagely repressed b...

The Tyrant's Novel

Kalu climbed high into a tree seeking the perfect leaf to roll into a pipe.... Softening one end in his mouth, he pressed down with his teeth to flatten the tube and blew. The sound, sweet and clear, rode the wind, snaking through the tree and down i...

Dancing to the Flute

The Harsh Cry of the Heron is the dazzling continuation of the Tales of the Otori, an unforgettable epic with a vast emotional landscape, a classic work that crosses genres, genders and generations.  'Their realm is held in balance by their union... ...

The Harsh Cry of the Heron

The award-winning TV adaption The Durrells left its seven million fans with questions: What happened to the family - and what took them to Corfu in the first place? This audiobook has the answers....  Simon Nye's TV series, The Durrells, is based loo...

The Durrells of Corfu

Almost 20 years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives an email from her old benefactor, Royce. Once, she was one of his brightest protegees; now her career has stalled and Royce is ailing, and each has a need to settle accounts.   Beyond...

In the Garden of the Fugitives

 Simultaneous release - the final instalment in a thrilling adventure trilogy for all fantasy fans, children and adults alike.
In the last book of the trilogy, something has gone terribly wrong. Mel and his friends have been locked in Deep Trouble pr...

MirrorShade

It's 1942, and war is raging in Europe and in the Pacific. The Japanese army is on Australia's doorstep, and the small coastal Queensland town of Maryborough is on full war footing. What they are not prepared for is the arrival in the town of a troup...

Good Murder

Books 1 and 2 in The Tale of Shikanoko series. The first instalment in a magnificent epic by the creator of the global phenomenon the Tales of the Otori, Lian Hearn, whose books have sold over four million copies worldwide. An ambitious warlord leave...

Emperor of the Eight Islands

The Prince is an arresting portrait of faith, loyalty and ambition, set against a backdrop of terrible suffering and an ancient institution in turmoil.   The leading Catholic in the nation and spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott, Cardinal George Pell ha...

The Prince

Failed Shakespearean actor and would-be private detective William Power returns to Melbourne in this wry sequel that re-creates the tension and fear of wartime Australia.  Bloodied and broken but somehow unbowed, he arrives in a town struggling under...

A Thing of Blood

Books 3 and 4 in The Tale of Shikanoko series. The second and final instalment of The Tale of Shikanoko: a bold epic of a fantastical medieval Japan from the creator of the global phenomenon Tales of the Otori, Lian Hearn, whose books have sold over ...

Lord of the Darkwood

Sydney Hobart Yacht Race - the story of one of the world's greatest sporting challenges. The Sydney to Hobart yacht race is one of the world's major sporting events. In 1998, it became one of the world's major sporting disasters. Six sailors tragical...

Liberal thinker or immoral pragmatist? You decide....  Machiavelli has been among the most commented upon, criticized and feared thinkers of the modern world. Infamous for his support of brutality and repression as valid political instruments, he is ...

Machiavelli: Bolinda Beginner Guides

In this audiobook you'll find what it takes to have an underlying sense of calm and equilibrium you can rely on the whole of your life. This is much more than feeling. It's a way of squeezing the most out of the up times, coping with the down times, ...

Calm No Matter What

A highly accomplished debut novel about our capacity for curiosity - and our dangerous entitlement to it - which reminds us the scariest ghosts aren’t those that go bump in the night but those that are born and create a place for themselves in the hu...

A Superior Spectre

Written with the full co-operation of the Dalai Lama, this fascinating, up-to-date biography captures at once the public persona and enduring mystery behind one of the world's most important spiritual leaders.   

The Dénouement

The story of the clipper ships, and the tens of thousands of migrants they brought to the Australian colony of the 19th century, is one of the world's great migration stories. For anyone who travelled to Australia before 1850, it was a long and arduo...

A tale of longing, loss and growing love under the bright Australian sun.   It's 1921, and the Great War has left in its wake untold tragedy, not only in lives lost but in the guilt of survivors, the deep-set scars of old wounds and the sting of redo...

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