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The Curly Cow is a heart-warming story about a family of cows and the girl who looked after them on a small farm in the Hunter Valley of NSW. It spans 37 years of farm life, showing us all the ups and downs of living on the land. It is the close bond and friendship between the author and the animals that make her long and unpredictable hours and climatic hardships worth the effort.

'Joanne Le Maitre has told a lovely story in The Curly Cow. Suitable for country and city kids alike. Utterly, or should that be udderly adorable.' - Alison Lewis, author 'Missing'

'If you can look into a cow's eyes and see diamonds, you will love this book wholeheartedly and read it again and again. I want to come back as a cow. Not just an ordinary cow though, I want to come back as a special cow under the loving care of Joanne Le Maitre.' - John Morrow's 'Pick of the Week'

A young boy, Luke Whelan, lies dying in hospital from terminal cancer, an old woman and Luke's young father by his side. Luke is about to be saved but to do so the woman will give him a precious gift - or is it a curse?

 

As Luke grows into a young man he finds out about the deadly curse that saved his life. He can save people's lives by touching them, but in turn he ages. He must now embark on a perilous journey to save his own life again and those of everyone around him.

 

Facing an immortal being from the bowels of hell and pitted against the forces of a tyrannical US government, the Mafia, God and Satan, never has one man had to overcome so much and reach a point where the ultimate decision of good versus evil must be made.

The most controversial cop in Australian history, in his own words.

Roger Rogerson hasn't been a police officer for more than 20 years. Yet his name makes him, the most well-known 'detective-sergeant' in Australia.

He has been the subject of articles, appearances, profiles and books; portrayed in TV dramas; and recorded by covert listening devices at home for months.

Rogerson took up his own pen in prison. Out, he walked the club and pub speaking circuit, where he found a ready audience for his tales of law and mayhem. He now writes for newspapers.

Here, he tells us of:

- high profile investigations;

- forgotten ones, like when a key from Tassie opened a Sydney murderer's door;

- some of the most interesting dead people he's ever met;

- the hunt for desperados on a deadly robbing spree;

- the bloody night that earned him the award for courageous action;

- meeting a prominent toe cutter;

- besieging the comic Wally and the dangerous Green Man;

- the dogs in a prison he sojourned in;

- bad days in a flattened railcarriage at Granville...

and more...

These untold tales are the ones everyone else has glossed over or ignored, from the horse's mouth, for the first time.

In 1944 the Australian literary world was rocked by a hoax which was to become a worldwide scandal. Ern Malley, deceased motor mechanic and poet, was the invention of two Sydney poets, James McAuley and Harold Stewart, who were intent on proving that modern poetry was a sham. The work of Malley comprised lines and words selected randomly, everywhere from Shakespeare to an American report on the drainage of the breeding grounds of mosquitoes.

Max Harris published the poetry in the literary magazine Angry Penguins but when the deception was revealed he was mercilessly lampooned, tried and convicted of publishing 'indecent advertisements'. This definitive edition contains all of the poems, a new introduction by artist Albert Tucker, and historical background by Max Harris, John Reed and Colin Wilson; augmented by the unique contribution of drawings and etchings by Garry Shead.

Noel Braun yearns to walk the Camino, the ancient pilgrimage route that leads across France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Since the suicide of Maris, his beloved wife of forty-two years, he has struggled to find himself. But is it pure madness? He's an old bloke. At seventy-seven-years, he should be sensible, act his age and relax in a rocking chair. Can his body and spirit withstand the demands? Can he leave family and friends behind? Noel believes this is a journey he MUST undertake. It's a compulsion, a spiritual quest of self-discovery, an urgent need to commune with the world around and beyond him.

 

When Noel begins his journey, he discovers it's not just the rigorous demands of the physical world he must answer. The territory of the heart and soul has its own challenges, which have him searching for spiritual and emotional insights. His travels are interwoven with accounts of the many engaging characters he meets. In time he realises he himself is one of the Camino's characters.

 

The Day Was Made for Walking merges the spiritual with the physical, the ancient with the contemporary. It is a memoir, but also a glimpse into history and a travel guide.

In prose that sparkles with wit, shocks with insight, and beguiles with the air of legend, these eight stories take the reader from post-apocalyptic Tasmania to the tragedy of surrogate pregnancy in the 1950s. Loss of species, the whims of publishers, the question of Islam in regional Australia - these are among the subjects Carmel Bird addresses in her characteristic probing style.

Moshe Dancyger, who was born into an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish family [Ger. Hasidim], and Eva Kowadlo, who came from a Traditional Jewish family, were both born in Wloclawek Poland. They managed to escape the Nazi regime in their home town and successfully adjust to life in distant Australia, arriving in the latter part of 1948.

 

Their story includes loss, challenges and triumphs, a family's love for one another and the fragility and fluctuating balance of life.

One hundred years after the charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba in October 1917...

'The Desert Column is based on the diaries that he kept through out the war. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess' earliest works. Harry Chauvel noted in the foreword that it was the only book of the campaign that to his knowledge was "viewed entirely from the private soldier's point of view"... Idriess served as a sniper with the 5th Australian Light Horse. Enlisting in 1914, he began his diary "as we crowded the decks off Gallipoli" and he continued writing until returning to Australia... The diaries cover his experience of some of the war's major events from life in the trenches at Gallipoli to the battles at Romani and Beersheba. One of Idriess' strengths as a writer is his ability to place the reader at the scene of the action... The diaries reveal a keenness of observation and a descriptive and pacey style that Idriess would develop further in The Desert Column.' - The Australian War Memorial

On special assignment with Military Intelligence, Detective-Inspector Bonaparte leaves his familiar Australian outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort. Although out of his element with city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues in the search for a wily killer…

 

The complex half-caste Bony is, I think, my favourite fictional detective of the past twenty years. - Anthony Boucher, The New York Times

'The Diemen Alexander is Jurassic Park meets ET in the best possible way. It's fast paced, thrilling, funny, and fantastical. I loved it.' - Alison Goodman

When tender-hearted geeky teenage Luke rescues a lizard in a thunderstorm on kunanyi, he has no idea it will have a mind of its own.
Or eat quite so much. Or grow so fast.
Or resemble Tasmania's lost dinosaur.
Suddenly Alexander the lizard becomes an immensely valuable object, sought by cold-blooded and violent people.
Luke's brains and compassion won't be enough to protect Alexander - something his anarchic sister Gatta could have told him - not even with help from the fearsome Shona, paleogeologist and AFLW Goddess.
Meanwhile Alexander - teeth, claws and appetite - is growing, changing and learning to communicate.
Can Luke find his own ferocity and ruthlessness to counter the odds stacked against them?
A sci-fi romp through present-day Hobart - featuring zoology, comparative anatomy and venture capitalism - that asks deeper questions about human responsibility towards animals, the earth and each other, and the truth that power goes to the person most prepared to wield it.
The Diemen Alexander is an adventure full of narrow escapes and fail-to-escapes, an XH Holden ute, shameful misuse of really excellent whisky, and a distressing amount of fast food.

The Dingoes reached the climax of their Australian success in 1974 with their self-titled LP and singles Way Out West and Boy on the Run. They were inducted in the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2009.

This is the story of the Dingoes' one chance to make it big on the international stage. It is a rollicking road trip of five Aussie musicians travelling across the USA in preparation for their big break - supporting their stable-mates Lynyrd Skynyrd on a national tour. It is a story of making music, life in a band, but above all it is a yarn, in the best Australian tradition, spun around true events and real characters.

In this 7th book of the highly acclaimed Grafton Everest Series, our indolent hero, Professor Dr Everest (former lecturer in Lifestyles and Wellbeing at the University of Mangoland) is surprised to find himself President of the newly minted Republic of Australia. Luckily he manages to avoid any actual work or duties, save heading the newly created Department of Wellbeing, and leaves on a goodwill tour of the US.

 

Here, he is courted by both Democrats and Republicans as a possible US Presidential candidate. After further discoveries, including a secret society of retired spies and bionic clones, he returns to Australia to find that the Department of Wellbeing has become a ruthless dictatorship that has brought the nation to a stop. It is now up to Professor Dr Everest to save the country …

 

This is slapstick that tickles the funny bone while the satirical barbs penetrate the shifty shibboleths of today’s progressive orthodoxies!

Mother by day, Dominatrix by night.
When a cash-strapped single mother of two in suburban Melbourne has a fun idea to start a side hustle running workshops for hens' parties, she has no idea it will lead her on a surreal adventure (or twenty) through the debaucherous underground world of kink clubs and swingers' parties. Nor does she know that it will bring her out on the other end as one of Australia's most recognised Dominatrixes.
Complete with celebrity encounters and lessons in kink, love, and parenthood, she shows us how having multiple identities is not only possible, but incredible, and that some mums really are superheroes - they might just use their rope and masks in a different way than you'd expect.

This is the story of a journey to Southern California, home of the American Dream, in search of fame and fortune.

An Australian couple of mixed German-Chinese origin with their six-year old son Maximilian leave their settled life in Sydney to move to California. The boy's Mandarin name is Xiaolong, meaning Little Dragon, and the dream of his mother is that he will one day become the number one golf player in the world. She has contacted Tiger Woods' first professional coach who is supposed to take the boy under his wings, and she is determined to make her dream come true.

The book follows Maximilian's exposure to playing junior gold, the highlights and pitfalls along with the emotional ups and downs of children involved in competitive sport, and their parents' sometimes conflicting and contradictory expectations, culminating in an account of Maximilian competing at the Junior World Championship in San Diego.

But 'The Dragon Mother's Dream' is more than a book about golf. Part travelogue and part parenting memoir, it is a journal about living in one of the most privileged places in California. It documents the everyday realities and idiosyncracies of the contemporary American way of life, recorded with great precision and attention to detail by an Australian writer of European roots and - sometimes satirical, often ironic - sensibilities.

At the end of the book, the mother's dream takes an unexpected twist.

Mia and her Grandfather return to the parallel world of Nilimbia to a curious welcome by their hybrid guides. As they tour the realm they are rewarded with glimpses of grandness, moments of magic, and flashes of colourful history between Nilimbia and the Land Down Under. When Mia creates a dream to save an endangered species she is appointed Dream Weaver. The acts of a few change everything though, and a mission to prove her skills forces Mia to make some difficult decisions. Can Mia follow her heart and imagination to unite the magic of Nilimbia and bring humans and hybrids together?