Books
Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes
Tim Fischer and Peter Rees
Format: Paperback
Tim Fischer and Peter Rees tell the tales of some real outback heroes, their communities and their success in bouncing back from hardship to success. Full of canny thinking, hard work and a refusal to give up, these truly inspiring stories come from every corner of Australia.
The Kitchen Hand
Anthony Telford
Format: Paperback
This is your guide to the global kitchen. A collection of handy hints, a dictionary of weird and wonderful foodstuffs, and a reference book, all in one.
Into the Blue
Tony Horwitz
Format: Paperback
By turns harrowing and hilarious, insightful and entertaining, Into the Blue retraces the great voyages of Captain James Cook, the British farmboy who drew the map of the modern world.
Out Back
Andrew Stevenson
Format: Paperback
Out Back is a sometimes shocking, laugh-out-loud funny and always entertaining account of the people and places that make outback Australia so unique, as seen through the eyes of an outsider.;
The Empty Beach
Peter Corris
Format: Paperback
Vintage Cliff Hardy, as Australia s favourite private eye finds himself literally fighting for his life in the murky violent underworld of Bondi.
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
Format: Paperback
A profoundly life affirming story about a small girl and her grandmother who are kindred spirits.
Frankenstella & the Video Shop Monster
Herbie Brennan
A wonderful modern cautionary tale reminding parents that sometimes their children know more than they think.
Tea: East & West
Rupert Faulkner
Format: Hard Cover
An evocatively illustrated book that tells the story of tea around the world and celebrates its contribution to civilised existence, past and present.
Guy Bourdin
Charlotte Cotton, ed.
Guy Bourdin was the man behind the most challenging and seductive fashion photography of the last century. He refused all offers to publish or exhibit during his lifetime and this book, with its compelling sequence of images, is the first thorough investigation of his work.
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