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Once (#1 Felix & Zelda)
Once I escaped from an orphanage to find my Mum and Dad. Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house. Once I made a Nazi with toothache laugh. My name is Felix. This is my story. Felix lives in a convent orphanage in Poland. He is convinced his parents are still alive and that they will one da...
Shallows
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin...
The Collector
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables his to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collector's point of view: he th...
Taniwha
A little boy has made friends with a taniwha in his river, but no-one believes him. The taniwha takes the boy on a journey through time and myth where he meets some amazing characters, gathering the Earth's treasures as he goes. New edition, new jacket...
Troublesome Words (PB)
What's the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With Troublesome Words, Bill Bryson offers a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of English usage that has been an indispensable companion to t...
The Keep
After twenty years apart, two cousins reunite in Eastern Europe to renovate a medieval castle. The cousins are irrevocably bound to one another through the shared experience of their youth, when a childhood prank with devastating consequences changed both their lives forever. In an environment of desola...
Dinosaurs Galore
Brightly-coloured cartoon dinosaurs of every shape and size feature in this collection of puzzles and games for young children, who will enjoy searching for hidden animals, matching up species, reading coded messages, finding their way through mazes, and numerous other attention-grabbing games....
Poems
Peter Whigham (Translator, Editor); Gaius Valerius Catullus
One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and includes his lyrics to the notorious Clodia Metelli ...
Ottolenghi: The Cookbook
Ottolenghi changed the way we cook in this country just as surely and enduringly as Elizabeth David's A Book of Mediterranean Food had in 1950. It brought into our kitchens bold flavours, a vivid simplicity, a spirited but never tricksy inventiveness and, above all, light. - Nigella Lawson Inspired by ...
The Only Story
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, an achingly profound internationally-bestselling love story between a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman whose life is gradually moving in the opposite direction. Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or l...
The Basis of Everything: Rutherford, Oliphant and the Coming of the Atomic Bomb
The story that bonds Ernest Rutherford and Marcus Oliphant is as extraordinary as it is unlikely. They were kindred souls, schooled and steeped in the furthest frontiers of Britain's empire, whose restless intellect and tireless conviction fused in the crucible of discovery at Cambridge University's cel...
The Fate of Fausto
A stunningly presented modern-day fable from world-renowned talent Oliver Jeffers. There was once a man who believed he owned everything and set out to survey what was his. "You are mine," Fausto said to the flower, the sheep, and the mountain, and they all bowed before him. But they were not enough fo...
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalized, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statis...
The Other Half Of Augusta Hope
This is a story for anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong. 'I really enjoyed this book ... great observational comic gems within a fast moving story full of the reality of despair and hope in everyone's lives' MIRANDA HART 'Keep the tissues close' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'A beautifully written deb...
7 Ways: Easy Ideas for Your Favourite Ingredients
7 WAYS TO REINVENT YOUR FAVOURITE INGREDIENTS WITH MORE THAN 120 NEW, EXCITING AND TASTY RECIPES Jamie's looked at the top ingredients we buy week in, week out. We're talking about those meal staples we pick up without thinking - chicken breasts, salmon fillets, mince, eggs, potatoes, broccoli, mushroo...
New Zealanders - The Field Guide
A revealing guide to the weird and wonderful inhabitants of New Zealand... and the places you'll find them. After years of mimicking various celebrities and stereotypes on his social media platforms, comedian Tom Sainsbury has now compiled his favourite New Zealand personalities into a book. This array ...
The Penguin Book of Oulipo - Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form
'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology.' - The Guardian 'At times, you simply have to stand back in amazement.' - Daily Telegraph 'Philip Terry's collection is packed with fabulous, wide-ranging work that displays the full ingenuity, brio and originality of O...
Strangers on a Pier - Portrait of a Family
'So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage. If we are lucky we wil...
Your Money Your Future: The Realest Guide to Finding Financial Freedom
A real-life handbook to finding financial freedom on any income, from the creator of New Zealand’s leading finance podcast Cooking the Books and author of Tales from a Financial Hot Mess. “The biggest goals can be achieved when you’ve got a road map in hand. Quitting your job and living a good life, on...
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