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How do you live in a world with no cars, no bras, and no sewage? Is life without TV possible? What do you order at the local deli if they don't sell chips, pies or Coke? Are you still sane if you want to go to bed at nine o'clock? It's weird being an alien in your own country! Sam, Shannon and Zak are not the world's keenest history students. But when a school camp takes them back to 1899, they have to learn things the hard way. Danger, fun an...

Focussing Saturn is a collection of poems of meditative power and quiet intensity that offers a rich source for pleasure and deep reflection. In this impressive third collection, Mike Heald continues his exploration of the natural world, shifting human relationships, the life of the body and the significance of everyday life.

This is a lively anthology of autobiographical stories and short fiction about the lives of ordinary Australians by some of Australias most famous writers, including A.B. Facey, Sally Morgan, Elizabeth Jolley, T.A.G. Hungerford, Kim Scott and Simone Lazaroo. From childhood through adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a compelling, often moving, and sometimes funny, insight into Australian life.

This book is a lively new collection of stories from award-winning children's writer Elaine Forrestal. Filled with bubbles wearing bright rainbow-colored jackets, pet flies, naughty umbrellas and socks that keep disappearing, Rainbow Jackets will delight and entertain children in the early years of primary school.

How did a poorly educated, hearing-impaired working-class boy from country New South Wales develop a reputation that merited a State funeral in 1922? The answer to this question results in a truly interdisciplinary book that looks at the tension inherent in the irony of high art versus the authority of the people of city sophistication versus the voice of the bush, the heart of Australia. The case studies in this book are diverse and interesti...

Tommo is neat, quiet, calm, and careful, and he plays lead trumpet in the school band. His best friend, Smelly, is a girl who is messy, noisy, rough, and impulsive, and she is a star player in the school football team. When the band and the football team go to the city to take part in their respective state-wide competitions, their unusual friendship is tested to the limit. After a disastrous mix up with the buses, the band turns up at the foo...

There were once hundreds of ketches like Redbill fishing for pearlshell in the waters of the old northwest Australia, but few had her gift for survival or friendship. Built in 1903, Redbill sailed, pearling through the great days of Broome and the hard years of the Depression. When war came to the Pacific, Redbill was there as the first bombs fell on Darwin. When her pearling years ended, Redbill took on new lives and new masters. In Papua she...

Coming and Going is the story of four generations of women and their individual journeys to find self expression within the family. The story begins with Oma, a Latvian refugee who struggles with loss of culture, history and identity when she emigrates to Australia. Her daughter, Gunta, grows up in the resulting displaced, isolated family and finds a sense of identity and belonging through her talent as a painter. Andra, Guntas daughter and th...

Missing diamonds, a suspicious death, a dangerous reef and sinister strangersTom and Ellie have stumbled upon a real mystery, but one false move and they could be history. A shared bus trip to school each day turns to friendship when Tom helps Ellie, first with homework, and then with her grief following the death of her father under strange circumstances. But when everything reaches a terrifying climax out on the reef, it's Ellie who comes to...

Francesca has lived in Kununurra all her life and all she had ever wanted is a horse of her own. When her grandfather retires and brings home the Judas donkey it feels like a cruel substitute for her dream. But it is hard not to love the steadfast Judy, and with her comes a new friend, Tula. Life in Kununurra goes on, and nothing stays the same forever, but as Francesca discovers, there's a lot you can learn from a donkey.

From the award-winning author of Benang, along with his Aunty Hazel Brown (I am a free thinker and I am a free speaker.) comes this monumental exploration of the southern coast Noongar people of Western Australia. Kayangmeaning, respectfully, Old Ladywas born in 1925. Through her candid voice comes the story of her people and her country which is skillfully interwoven with traditional tales and with Kim Scott's personal interpretations of even...

Laura - Loz - is twelve years old and she and her friends, Al, Emily, Luci, Nina and Shelley, are planning to be the next big pop sensation, tour the world and make heaps of money. Everything in life is great until, suddenly - almost overnight, it seems - Loz's world is turned upside down. First of all her very best friend from the age of eight, Alice, (Al) starts hating her, and won't even tell her why, and then her Mum, who has been acting r...

The image of the child lost in the Bush became a central theme in the Australian colonial experienceeven though there were any number of more likely, and more gruesome ways a child could come to harmand it has played a powerful part in the Australian imagination ever since. By using actual incidents of lost children and, where possible, the voices of those involved, the author gives the reader a sense of direct experience and provides intrigui...

Kate Lamonts new cookbook follows the success of Family, Food and Friends and Celebrating. Organized by season, the book offers 12 menus with a starter, main course and dessert. Each recipe carries the distinctive Kate Lamont hallmarks of simplicity, freshness and high-quality produce. Complete with beautiful photographs and Kates own suggestions and ideas, A Year in the Kitchen with Kate Lamont is ideal for both the beginner and connoisseur.

Michael Sullivan comes of age on the eve of the third millennium in a small country town in fur-ravaged Western Australia. Furred world, third world, he muses, it is the only life he knows. The infestation began before he was born. The state is strictly quarantined from the rest of the country and his burning desire to escape to Melbourne is matched only by his zeal to stay and play his part in making a better world. Revolution or escape? Hung...

Zan Ross's En Passant is an eloquent first collection of contemporary poetry. Four individual sections are interwoven to create a rich textual body of haunting, sharp and very sexual poetry for the senses.

Warm and funny, this new book from award-winning author Diana Chase, is a real winner. Daisy Street tells the stories of all the children who live there. There is Pippa who doesn't think her dream of having a pony will ever come true until she goes to help Mrs. Akhrani at her restaurant. There are Harry, Kate and their dog Scoot who build the best castle ever, in the lounge room. There is Anna who, somehow, loses her grandpa's Irish stew on th...

Tom & Jack tells the story of the Kilfoyles, who played a major part in the original overland cattle drive from Queensland to the mouth of the Ord River on the border between the Northern Territory and Western Australia, and who were instrumental in establishing the cattle industry in that part of the Australia. The book is a wonderfully intimate account of the day-to-day problems and hardships faced by these early pioneers as they struggled t...

Michael Hardy and his friend, Woody Decker, are just ordinary teenage boys who happen to have a talent for creating disaster. It all begins when in the course of testing a replica Roman catapult they have built for a school project they accidentally fire a brick through a church window. And so a month of mayhem is unleashed. The school library burns down, the school principal is knocked unconscious and a regiment of garden gnomes is massacred....

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