Books
People of Heaven
In 1945, on a train bound for Zululand, two soldiers meet on the way home to their families, the war in Europe finally over. But in South Africa there are many more battles still to be fought. The seeds of …
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Peter Ryan: The Inside Story
The compelling story of both the best-loved and most vilified Police Commissioner Australia has ever known, this book explores the controversies that dogged Peter Ryan’s reign in NSW, the political skulduggery, the media maneuvering and the strengths – and fatal …
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Petria Thomas: Swimming Against the Tide
Petria Thomas captured the hearts of millions of Australians with her gold medal-winning performance at the Athens Olympic Games. Her triumphs in Athens capped an illustrious and gutsy twelve-year swimming career that generated headlines and accolades in equal measure. Here, …
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Pioneer Women, Pioneer Land: Yesterday’s Tall Poppies
This book looks closely at those women in early Australia who were the “tall poppies” of their time. Charmingly illustrated with painting that reflect their lives.…
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Poppy Wash
Poppy has the best job in the world — every day she washes all kinds of dragons at her Dragon Wash.
Poppy loves her job, but most of all she loves the dragons themselves. All that′s missing is a dragon …
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Purple Snow
Cockatoo has travelled all the way from Australia to Polar Bear’s home to see the white snow. But it’s not what he expects. When he invites his friends to see the Purple Snow that falls in Australia in summer each …
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Queens of the Sea
The unthinkable has happened. Warrior queen Bluebell has lost her kingdom to the Crow King, Hakon, and her demented Trimartyr sister, Willow. While Bluebell would like nothing more than to storm the city with her army and crush Willow underfoot, …
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Quick
Melbourne, Australia. Round one of the Formula One World Championships. Billy Hotchkiss no longer races a V8 Supercar but that doesn’t mean he’s lost the need for speed.
When the young cop uncovers a diamond heist in progress he leaps …
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RAAF Black Cats
The secret and dangerous operations of Australia’s Pacific War Catalina crews told for the first time.
In March 1945 Reg Cleworth, a navigator on PBY Catalina seaplanes flying out of Darwin, went missing in action. No details were ever given …
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Raising Girls Who Like Themselves
The seven qualities that enable girls to thrive in a world that tells them they are flawed.
When you raise a girl who likes herself, everything else follows.
She will strive for excellence because she has faith in her ability …
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Raw
Brett Dalton is a tough guy – hardened, angry, uncaring and always ready to use his fists. When the world hates you, you might as well hate it back…
But when Brett is busted by the cops for stealing and …
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Raw Blue
Carly has dropped out of uni to spend her days surfing and her nights working as a cook in a Manly café. Surfing is the one thing she loves doing … and the only thing that helps her stop thinking …
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Reach For The Dream
Sometimes life takes you on a journey you never expected…
Alice Ferguson is eight years old when a savage bushfire tears her family apart and she is sent to live with her aunt in the tiny town of Billabrin. Lost …
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Rebel Women Who Changed Australia
Visionaries, pioneers, activists and artists – women who made a difference to Australia
An updated and condensed edition of Susanna de Vries’ Great Australian Women, this is a celebration of women who broke the mould, crashed through the ceilings, …
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Rebellion
Every year the winters worsen, and the realm’s protective magic disappeared with the traitor-king, Lyf, two thousand years ago. Now Lyf is back, bent on wiping Hightspall off the map and rebuilding his ancient land anew. A slave orphaned by …
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Reggie and Lu
Reggie and Lu are best friends — most of the time. But they discover that, even when they’re not, making up can be lots of fun!…
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Ride With The Wind
Joanna Kingsford is passionate about horses. This is the world she shares with her father, champion trainer Charlie Kingsford. Her socialite mother, Nina, wants Joanna to pursue more ladylike interests like Modelling and finishing school.
But a tragic accident changes …
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Riding High
Australian scientist Dr Clea Reynolds is more comfortable in a lab coat than a glamorous frock. But all that changes when she meets Prince Bahir, the wealthy son of a powerful Dubai racing dynasty. A rare virus attacks Bahir’s champion …
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Roar of the Lion
Love or empire; ambition or greed? What drives a man to walk from the Cape to Cairo?
Ewart Grogan, known to the Africans as Bwana Simba — the man with the cold stare of the lion — is a man …
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Roden Culter, V.C.
Roden Cutler, V.C. is the story of Sir Roden Cutler, war hero, diplomat and former Governor of New South Wales – a widely respected, and widely loved, figure whose life encompasses major moments in Australian and international history.…
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