‘The Road meets Waiting for Godot: powerful, unforgettable, unique’ Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time.Doggerland is a superbly gripping debut novel about loneliness and hope, nature and survival – set on an off-shore windfarm in the not-so-distant future.‘His father’s breath had been loud in the small room. It had smelled smoky, or maybe more like dust. He had knotted and unknotted a strap on the ba...

**“Engrossing and suspenseful." *—*The New York Times“Expertly pulls readers in.” —The Guardian“Smith sharply chronicles the revolutionary moment.” — Financial TimesThe origin story of the post-truth age: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Nick Denton of Gawker Media and Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale helped release the dark forces that would overtake the inter...

RUNNING AWARDS 2019 – TOP BOOKThe story of Ben Smith, who decided to run 401 marathons in 401 days. People thought he was mad, until they heard his story, then they began to understand. Having endured years of bullying as a child, Ben tried to take his own life.In adulthood, Ben struggled to feel content with the life that was mapped out for him. But having found his passion in running, Ben sold his possessions, escaped his old life and set off on what seem...

A story from the inside when Queensland had the most corrupt police force in the country. This is what it's really like to be an undercover police officer.'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' - John Silvester, Crime Reporter for The AgeUndercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had to walk amongst them, to become them. The trick...

BEN SMITH: PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLER. Recognise the name? Of course you don't. That's because most of Smith's years in the game were spent outside the vaunted, big-money environs of the Premier League - and this sporting memoir is all the more entertaining as a result. 1995: an adolescent Ben arrives at the training ground of one of England's biggest clubs to begin his journey and realise his dream of playing top-flight professional football. Aged just sixteen, he shares pre-season sessions ...

What if we told you that you can eat anything you like and lose weight?Well, you probably wouldn't believe us, would you? And if you did believe us, you would ask HOW?We asked the same question. After both struggling with our weight and the effects of crash dieting, we knew there had to be a better way to shed the pounds. That's how we developed the #itsfine plan. With a unique approach to portion control and by debunking the many myths around fad diets, it...

The hilarious memoir about Australia in the 1950s.When a naive young couple marry, romance clashes with reality and just about everything goes wrong - and right.When a gormless just-married couple rent an impractical shack at Avalon, twenty-six miles from Sydney, they face, among other things, an endless commute in a broken-down car. Soon they have no time for anything except keeping on the road.This memoir, constructed from journals, provides a laugh-out-loud chronicl...

Volume 2 - An upside down cathedral floats in the sky above Du Pont, threatening to fall down and crush the city below. Inside, Valorie Valiant races against time to track down three magical totems which Cye has convinced her will somehow save her kingdom, but even if it works; how can Valorie save herself from the scythe wielding Lord Alistair who’s hunting her the whole way.

VOL 3 – Valorie Valiant, the transgender princess of Valenguard, crosses swords with Tat while Marium meets her ghostly husband in single combat. Joshi and Sheila defend the Wisteria against the Amalgam, but will Shawn overcome his fear in time to help? The Monitor draws Nem, Cye, and Leah deeper into his nightmare realm. Sooner or later one of them is going to snap. Will the Wisteria Crew escape the Grubscape or will they leave their souls behind to haunt this realm forever?

What if our Gospels . . .. . . aren't Gospel?It was supposed to be a simple bit of salvage archeology for Father Duncan MacDonald, the Vatican archeologist: Explore an empty cave uncovered in the Negev Desert by an Israeli construction crew for archeological significance. But then a false wall in the back of the cave reveals a basalt ossuary, inscribed with the name of “Matthew Levi, Beloved Scribe of His Lord.” Behind the ossuary . . . an ...

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VOL 1 – Vanquished is back! Picking up where “Weird Princ{ess}” left off, the mismatched Wisteria Crew desperately speed towards their death as the airship burns out over the ruins of Castle Valiant below, and the Alfainian Lord Umbermane pelts them from a distance. Can Valorie Valiant, the Transgender Princess of Valenguard, survive this and the adventure to come?