Books
Mixed Blessings
There are around 20,000 children in foster care in Australia, but how many of us would actually open our hearts and homes to help? With husband Cedric, Deborah Lee is one of the unsung heroes of foster care, having fostered …
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Monster
Some monsters are scary – with pointy teeth and snuffly grunts – and they stink. You’d never invite them to sleep over! But there are other monsters that are cute and full of surprises.…
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Mooki vs The Big Scary (Book 1)
Join Mooki and his best friends Cindy and Ralph on a funny and thrilling journey as they face heart-stopping challenges and meet amazingly unexpected characters along the way.
They’ll climb a towering mountain, outsmart some snappy Venus flytraps, face off …
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Mooki vs The Terrible Toys (Book 2)
Toys aren’t meant to be terrible.
Join Mooki and his best friends Cindy and Ralph as they discover an amazing toy store, meet cool new friends, face terrible new foes, and go on a daring rescue mission!
Mooki will fly …
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Mosaic
Mosaic is compelling storytelling at its best: from the fascinating detail of Polish-Jewish culture and the rivalries and dramas of family life, to its moving account of lives torn apart by war and persecution, this is an extraordinary story of …
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Mother Zen
In 2010 Jacinta Tynan innocently sparked a media storm when her article in the Sun Herald exposed a fault line in our perception of motherhood. Her premise — that motherhood could be easy — split the parenting community down the …
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Mothers Behaving Badly
“I wrote this book for Miranda. One minute Ms Miranda was a Gucci-shod executive, chairing meetings and firing the non-compliant, and the next, Whoosh, Miranda’s brain came out with the placenta.”
So starts Maggie Groff’s hilarious romp through the trials …
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Mouth to Mouth: Mad Moments from a Modern Life
In ‘Mouth To Mouth’, a troupe of wonderfully crumpled characters valiantly try to make sense of who they are and what they’ve become. They want the big answers – now! The clock is ticking.
Life in the 1990s is supposed …
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Mrs Groff’s Mischievous Book of Motherhood Management
You can fool all of the children some of the time, and some of the children all of the time, but with practice you can fool all of the children all of the time. And their fathers.
Warm, funny and …
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Muffin Top
Kylie Limpid and her brother Ashton are in the middle of their rumba practice when things start to go wrong, at the exact moment she notices her brother’s muffin-top – and it’s hanging over the top of his pants! The …
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Murder At Anna Bay
When Judith Brown was brutally murdered in her home on the north coast of NSW, police were baffled. There was no witness, no motive, and no conclusive physical evidence to indicate a suspect. Detective Sergeant Peter Fox was determined to …
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My Brother’s Keeper
A blood smear trailing along a footpath of a suburban Sydney street went largely ignored by local residents accustomed to hoaxes and bloody turf brawls in their beachside suburb. Initially police suspected it was nothing more than animal blood. But …
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My Greek Family Table
Greek-Australian Maria Benardis welcomes you to her table to enjoy Greek food the way her family has always done. My Greek Family Table is a personal invitation to experience all the depth and flavour of Greek food and the wonderful …
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My Sunbeam Baby
The perfect gift for any new arrival
See my bouncing baby, jigging on my knee. Then snuggling for a story, just baby, book and me.
A gorgeous new picture book about how much we love our babies, from Emma Quay, …
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My War
This is no ordinary war story. In 1943, twenty-year-old Brian Walpole leaves his Melbourne home for the steaming jungles of New Guinea to serve in one of Australia’s first commando units. Then in Borneo, as a member of the elite …
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Night Beach
A gothic story about the very dark things that feed the creative process, from the winner of the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for young adult fiction.
Imagine there is someone you like so much that just thinking about them …
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No Time For Fear
Paul de Gelder chased adventure wherever he could find it, from his wild ride as a hoodlum teen and his drug-and-alcohol fuelled stint working in a strip club to hauling his way up to the elite echelons of the defence …
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Nocturne
She closed her eyes and listened to the forbidden Chopin nocturne … its magic hung in the air. It is Warsaw, 1939, and Elz′unia is an indulged teenager who longs for a heroic life filled with romance. But the outbreak …
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Not a Cloud in the Sky
Come Fly with Bird, meet Cloud, and find a friendship as big as the sky.
From award-winning author and illustrator Emma Quay…
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Not Your Average Nurse
To a young girl the life of a student nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift it’s never easy. So when Maggie Groff defies her parents’ wishes and embarks as a student nurse at London’s King’s College …
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