Category Archives: Travel Guides
Australia – Where to Camp Guide
Where to Camp Guide (1st Edition) – Everything you need to plan your ultimate Australian camping and carvanning adventure. Includes over 1000 free and budget campsites plus over 5500 indexed caravan parks and campsites indexed on more than 180 pages of detailed Hema maps.Prepare for your next adventure with the Where To Camp Guide from
The Patch
Emphatically, the author`s purpose was not merely to preserve things but to choose passages that might entertain contemporary readers. Starting with 250,000 words, he gradually threw out 75 percent of them, and randomly assembled the remaining fragments into `an album quilt.` Among other things, `The Patch` is a covert memoir. Part 1, `The Sporting Scene,`
Kangaroo
After the Great War, Richard Lovat Somers, a writer, and Harriet, his wife, leave disillusioned Europe for Australia. There Somers falls into the company of charismatic fascist `Kangaroo`. The young writer struggles with his past and his personal ideology as he finds himself in a deadly tug-of-war between the mesmerising Kangaroo and the feisty communist
Memoirs Of Many In One
The last Patrick White novel published in his lifetime, `Memoirs of Many in One` presents the eccentric, often fantastical recollections of the ageing actor, Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray. These are `edited` by the writer Patrick White, her friend and executor, who is often the target of her scorn. Witty and affecting, `Memoirs of Many in
Shepherd
A riveting, fast-paced new novel from the multi-award-winning Australian author Catherine Jinks.My father trained me to silence the way he trained his dogs, with food and a cane. Speech, he said, was poison. It scared the game, alerted the gamekeepers and betrayed your friends and family.Tom Clay was a poacher back in Suffolk. He was
The Rules Of Backyard Cricket
Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee – everything points towards a shallow grave. His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard – all the fury in his small body poured into the
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World
In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In any Austen novel that would be the end of the story, but for the real-life woman who became an Australian farming entrepreneur, it was just the beginning. John Macarthur took credit for establishing
Drylands
In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads – `full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back.` `Drylands` is the story of the
Bob
Livy can`t remember her first visit to her grandmother`s house all the way across the world in Australia, though she does seem to recall a `wrong chicken` and something unusual about a black chess piece. She definitely doesn`t remember the strange little creature she finds in the wardrobe. His name is Bob, and he`s been
Curry: Eating, Reading and Race
By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own upbringing, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity. With the sardonic wit of Gita Mehta`s Karma Cola and the refined, obsessive palette of Bill Buford`s Heat, Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of
On The Java Ridge
The Java Ridge is a traditional-style Indonesian boat luxuriously fitted out for surfing tours. It is skippered by Isi Natoli, and her passengers are a mixed group of Australian surfers keen to track down the perfect wave. The Takalar is filled with fleeing refugees including Roya and her mother and Roya`s unborn sister and it
The Adriatic Kitchen: Recipes Inspired by the Abundance of Seasonal Ingredients Flourishing on the Croatian Island of Korcula
Barbara Unkovic has always been drawn to the land of her father, the sun-soaked Croatian island of Korcula in the Adriatic Sea. She spent several years living there, in the seaside village of Racisce, immersed in its way of life, its culture, history and food. Now, inspired by the island`s culinary traditions and its abundance
The Trauma Cleaner
Longlisted for the Wellcome Book PrizeWinner of the Victorian Prize for Literature Winner of the Australian Book Industry AwardsA woman who sleeps among rubbish she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still
The Restorer
After a year apart, Maryanne returns to her husband, Roy, bringing their eight-year-old son Daniel and his teenage sister Freya with her. The family move from Sydney to Newcastle, where Roy has bought a derelict house on the coast. As Roy painstakingly patches the holes in the floorboards and plasters over cracks in the walls,
Quota
Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. So when a charitable colleague slings him a prosecution brief that will take him to the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees that the sea air might be good for him. The case
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
Libraries are filled with magic. From the Bodleian, the Folger and the Smithsonian to the fabled libraries of middle earth, Umberto Eco`s medieval library labyrinth and libraries dreamed up by John Donne, Jorge Luis Borges and Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Stuart Kells explores the bookish places, real and fictitious, that continue to capture our imaginations. `The
The Most Important Thing: Stories About Sons, Fathers and Grandfathers
Luke sees the ghost of his father but can t figure out what Dad wants him to do. Paul takes a camping trip with the grandfather he s just met and discovers what lies behind the man s erratic behavior. Ryan has some surprising questions when he interviews his prospective stepfather for the job. In
London`s Best Brunches: Beyond the Full English: A Nifty Guide to Getting Your Morning Started
The best of London`s brunches, from north to south, east to west. Want to know the best place near you for avocado on toast or some freshly baked granola? Or perhaps a fry-up and a bottomless jug of Bloody Mary is more in order…Brunch is fast becoming the meal of the day and here is
XXL: Epic Food, Street Eats & Cult Classics From Around the World
Do you love Korean fried chicken, deep-dish pizza, pimped-up nachos, fat fries coated in gravy and cheese curds, pulled-pork toasties and monster meatball subs? Hello. This book is for you!Look away kale obsessives ‘“ this is not food for the faint-hearted or those into #cleaneating. This is bona fide grown-up dude food. With 70 ridiculously
Look At Me
From a multi award-winning German novelist comes this finely nuanced and disarmingly funny novel about a woman who has lost sight of who she once was.Katharina`s husband isn`t coming home for the weekend – again – so she`s on her own. When their chaotic daughter Helli has a nosebleed, Kat has to dash off to
