Adams vs. God: The Rematch [PB] Available
Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams says he stopped believing in God at the age of six. At sixty-eight he has gathered the best of his essays on God and godlessness into this bible-banging, irreverent book.
Courage [PB] Available
Maria Tumarkin
A compelling new work from the talented Maria Tumarkin, Courage looks for courage outside of the extremes of violence, endurance and fear, tracking it across cultural and historical divides to its less spectacular and deeper forms.
Dangerous to Know: An Australasian Crime Compendium [PB] Available
James Morton and Susanna Lobez
From the bestselling authors of Gangland Australia comes
Dangerous to Know, an A to Z of Australasian crimes, criminals and their victims.
Gangland Australia: Colonial Criminals to the Carlton Crew [PB] Available
James Morton and Susanna Lobez
Gangland Australia surveys our criminal landscape from the early 1800s to the recent underworld killings in Melbourne.
How to Be a Child [HB] Available
Christine Langtree & Michael Coyne
How to Impersonate a Child is a gentle reminder for all of us to pause and look anew at the world through the eyes of a child.
Leaving Paradise: My Expat Adventure and Other Stories [PB] Available
Sonia Harford
In this entertaining and thoughtful personal investigation, Harford explores the boom in Australian expatriatism-the ideals, reality and dislocation of being an Australian living abroad-and the often heart-wrenching decision to return home.
Life After Death: The Art of the Obituary [HB] Available
Nigel Starck
Beginning with the first accounts of the deaths of princes published in early seventeenth-century newsbooks, athis lively book traces the development of the obituary in Britain, the United States and Australia.
A Light History of Hot Air PB [PB] Available
Peter Doherty
Nobel Prize-winner Peter Doherty's enthusiasm and curiosity about the world around him informs this atmospheric collection of stories on illumination, hot air and burning in all their guises.
Objects of the Dead: Mourning and Memory in Everyday Life [PB] Available
Dr Margaret Gibson
A remarkable reflection on grieving: of both saying goodbye and living with death.
The ON-nibus [PB] Available
Little Books on Big Themes re-packages an old-fashioned and unsexy genre to make essays modish and exciting.
Fiona Gruber, Weekend Australian
The Railways of Victoria 1854-2004: 150th Anniversary [PB] Available
Robert Lee
Victoria was the first Australian colony to open a steam railway, in 1854, and for the rest of the nineteenth century it remained the continent's most advanced and intensive railway.
The River: A Journey through the Murray-Darling Basin [PB] Available
Chris Hammer
The River looks past the daily news reports and their sterile statistics, revealing the true impact of our rivers' decline.
Rocky & Gawenda: The story of a man and his mutt [PB] Available
Michael Gawenda
Rocky & Gawenda is a celebration of the love that developed between a dog and his human friend.
Sweet Sorrow: A Beginner's Guide to Death [PB] Available
Mark Wakely
This is the one book that you will want to take to the grave.
Uncorrected Proof: The True History of the Australian Book Scene [PB] Available
Anonymous, Anonymous & Anonymous
'This book is a must for those considering entering a publishing career, writing, or taking up reading.' Frank Moorhouse
The Wayward Tourist: Mark Twain's Adventures in Australia [HB] Available
Mark Twain
Introduction by Don Watson
Awards: 2007 APA Book Design Awards Shortlist: Best Designed Non-fiction book (text)
'The air was balmy and delicious, the sunshine radiant; it was a charming excursion.
The Wayward Tourist: Mark Twain's Adventures in Australia [PB] Available
Mark Twain
The bestselling book that republished Mark Twain's adventures about his time in Australia, The Wayward Tourist is now in paperback form.
