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Mr Cleansheets
Adrian Deans

$34.95 – Paperback book / Vulgar Press

Eric Judd is 39 and his girlfriend wants him to give up playing football. Eric (aka Mr Cleansheets) is a goalkeeping legend at his amateur Sydney club because in his youth he received a letter inviting him to trial with ... Buy or find out more 


Fifth Season The
K Collison

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

In the aftermath of Indonesia's economic collapse, Chinese women are targeted by the President's son-in-law's reckless and brutal Special Forces.

In an evolving Islamic climate, anti-Chinese sentiment drives the country ... Buy or find out more 



Inside The Ropes A Surgeons Life
Doug Tracy

$34.95 – Paperback book /

Humour outweighs dignity in this autobiography by a leading Australian surgeon, foundation Professor of Surgery at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, and past President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. It cover... Buy or find out more 


Crescent Moon Rising
Kerry Collison

$29.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

"Crescent Moon Rising" is a blend of thought-provoking fiction, influenced by indisputable historical fact, and tempered with not-so-imaginary characters created to enhance the story's delivery. Buy or find out more 



Bruising: A Boxer’s Story
Mischa Merz

$32.95 – Paperback book / Vulgar Press

Bruising is the story of Merz’s long love affair with the art of boxing - from throwing and receiving her first punches - to competing in an Australian amateur title fight and beyond. Boxing opens her to new ideas about ... Buy or find out more 


Second Beginning
Tony Green

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

The planet Zula is reeling from the effects of global warming and burning amid the flames of a worldwide war over resources. When evil aliens attack an orbiting space station, a group of young people find themselves cast... Buy or find out more 



Shares To Buy And When 2011
Jim Berg

$29.95 – Paperback book / Major Street Publishing

In 'Shares to Buy and When 2011', sharemarket investor and educator Jim Berg again narrows down the 2000+ shares listed on the All Ordinaries index, and comes up with 111 promising stocks and sorts them into eight watch ... Buy or find out more 


Marketing With No Money
Leah Squire

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

'Marketing with No Money... how to get your business the attention it deserves' the book by Leah Squire, owner of internet based travel company www.byokids.com.au - your family travel gurus.

In this her first book Leah s... Buy or find out more 



Life Journeys
Peter Dwyer

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

In this memoir Peter Dwyer reflects on the events and decisions that have shaped his life, comparing them to the experiences of a new generation of young Australians. He says 'What I have learnt from them has helped me t... Buy or find out more 


Legacy
Jeff Edwards

$29.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

Jade Green has done what she had previously thought impossible. The infamous madam has emerged from obscurity and dared to use her legendary videos to sway Toby Brown's court case in his favour.

Prime Minister Foster kno... Buy or find out more 



Left of Tomorrow: A Journey of Stroke Recovery
Wendy J. Lyons

$29.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

It comes as a great shock, when suddenly from one minute to the next, we are who we are, and then we are not...Each year in Australia, over sixty thousand people suffer from stroke. Within the first few weeks over one th... Buy or find out more 


In And Out Of Step
Knight Christine M

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

'Aren't you tired of a past littered with escapes? Think about the woman you're becoming!' Leonie said, trying to prevent Cassie's flight.

The past denied and her dance championship dreams discarded, Cassie Sleight leave... Buy or find out more 



Journey Around My Family
Jan Gross

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

The story encompasses two journeys undertaken by the author. Firstly, the narrator travels in Tasmania by car shortly after the death of her husband. Her family and friends generally disapprove of her departure so soon a... Buy or find out more 


Goodbye Crackernight
Justin Sheedy

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

Goodbye Crackernight is the story of one boy’s childhood in 1970s Australia. It is a story of fireworks, of fun that cost nothing, of secondhand bikes, UFO-crowded skies, streakers, lime green Valiants, half-sucked Sunny... Buy or find out more 



Gommera Woman
Grant Rodwell

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

'Gommera Woman' is the exhilarating story of a colonial family pastoral empire and two brothers who seek to control it. Richard and Robert Barsden coolly and shockingly murder Aborigines in an attempt to drive them from ... Buy or find out more 


Gems Of A Generation
Trethowan Jones Sue

$29.95 – Paperback book /

The beading girls provides an exciting snapshot of the baby boomer era, historically important because of the introduction of the contraceptive pill. The era is illuminated through fifteen heartwarming and candid stories... Buy or find out more 



Surviving Financial Meltdown
Leigh Wilson

$34.95 – Paperback book / Leigh Wilson

If you are currently facing financial problems, you're probably experiencing a few negative emotions such as a sense of worry, concern, anxiety, fear or even dread. Many find that their concerns about money, their financ... Buy or find out more 


Bush Orphanage
John Hawkins

$34.99 – Paperback book / Jojo Publishing

The author of 'The Bush Orphanage' John Hawkins, himself a 'forced migrant child' from Britain tells in his book about the crimes against humanity that were committed by both British and Australian government authorities... Buy or find out more 



Good Greek Girls Don't...
Georgia Tsialtas

$24.99 – Paperback book / Jojo Publishing

Enjoy the fun, friends and adventures of Desi Delagiannis as she tries to survive the pressures of being a Good Greek Girl the only way she know how - by drinking, partying and avoiding her family, who drive her crazy, a... Buy or find out more 


Mentoring Your Memoir
Goldie Alexander

$29.95 – Paperback book /

Goldie Alexander, successful author, lecturer and teacher, shows us how to document our own life histories.

This guide offers a practical and stimulating approach that will lead you through the creative process from rese... Buy or find out more 



False Gods Fleece The Faithful
David Collett

$29.95 – Paperback book /

At the beginning of the 21st Century we again face another severe economic crisis which threatens to cause suffering akin to that of the Great Depression. How is this possible when we have reached such dizzying heights i... Buy or find out more 


Australian Guide To Home Staging
Katrina Maes

$29.95 – Paperback book / Major Street Publishing

Home Staging is a relatively new concept in Australia. But it is one that has been proven overseas to provide a massive advantage over other properties for sale.

Author Katrina Maes has been home staging for years. She h... Buy or find out more 



No Way To Behave At A Funeral
Noel Braun

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

This is the story of Noel who lost Maris, his beloved wife of 42 years, to suicide following years of struggling with depression.

The abrupt ending of a life by suicide can be the most catastrophic of events for those le... Buy or find out more 


Recovery
Peter Dwyer

$29.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

'Ours is proving to be one of those decisive periods of history in which a fundamental transformation fo the human prospect is taking place.'

In this book Peter Dwyer draws on expert studies to show how current economic,... Buy or find out more 



Occasions Of Sin
Cedric Hampson

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

At a young age, Gawain is left by his parents with a community of hippies who live on old Tom Slipper's farm in the hills inland from the Gold Coast. His education is poor and his moral code misty. He thinks the Knights ... Buy or find out more 


My Word From Acronyms To Zambuks And A Stripper Named Gypsy Rose
Laurie Barber

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

Some of the best 'My Word' newspaper columns have been brought together in this entertaining book to challenge our thoughts on the English language.

What did stripper Gypsy Rose Lee think of the word ecdysiast? Should Th... Buy or find out more 



Mystery Of You A Journey Through The Paradoxes Of Life
Ronald Goldschlager And Adin Steinsaltz

$39.95 – Hardcover book / Hybrid

The Mystery of You is an exciting and thought-provoking look at ourselves and how we live our lives. It contains a rich tapestry of ideas, beliefs and experiences. It challenges the reader in many ways by confronting eve... Buy or find out more 


Rainbow Bridge Home
Hillier Gary J

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

That face - she was the one Tahe had seen in his dream before leaving home. She was somehow connected to his distant past.

Earth's a school and one of many. Your soul has a contract with our Universe - you are just as im... Buy or find out more 



Pietros Daughter
Francese Hunt Trish

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

1925: Pietro, an Italian migrant, has just arrived in Melbourne. Escaping the crushing rural poverty of southern Italy, Pietro finds further challenges in his adopted country and experiences great personal hardship. His ... Buy or find out more 


Lonely For My Land
Tish Lees

$29.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

As one of the earliest properties pioneered north of the twenty-sixth parallel in the Roebourne District of the Pilbara, Karratha Station harbours a fascinating history. The 120,000 hectares, with its sixty-five kilometr... Buy or find out more 



New Life In The Mourning
Vicky Legge

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

And they lived happily ever after. That's the dream ending we all expect from a committed relationship, but dreams can become nightmares, and relationships end. But as Vicky Legge explains with authority and compassion, ... Buy or find out more 


Scorpio's Lot
Ray Smithies

$34.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

Following the murder of a young, well-liked man in the small, peaceful community of Pedley, Tom Harrison’s world is plunged into turmoil. Determined to protect his niece Brigit from Scorpio, a notorious drug syndicate, h... Buy or find out more 



Friendship On Fire
Danielle Weiler

$24.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

The first few days of year 12 are disastrous for school captain Daisy Brooks.But Daisy's life takes a sudden turn when she is dared by Skye, the leader of the blonde brigade, to meet the mysterious, drop-dead gorgeous st... Buy or find out more 


Hymn For The Wounded Man
Stephanie Dale

$24.95 – Paperback book / Voyager Moon

Lilia is an Australian city girl who takes time out from her busy life to meet her spiritual heart in New Zealand. There she meets a man whose culture she didn't know existed in the modern world of the 21st century. And ... Buy or find out more 



Dream Of Ding Village
Yan Lianke

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

The life and death of an entire community is told by a dead boy. His story reveals the moral vacuum at the heart of Communist-capitalist China.

During a blood-contamination scandal in Henan province, villagers sell their... Buy or find out more 


A Passion For Friends
Janice Raymond

$29.95 – Paperback book / Spinifex Press

Janice Raymond offers a vision of female friendship that is as exhilarating as it is controversial. In this feminist classic, she explores the many manifestations of friendship between women including the ancient Greek h... Buy or find out more 



Tea Leaves To Tarot Cards
Elaine Davies

$24.99 – Paperback book / Melbourne Books

Tea Leaves to Tarot Cards: 23 Ways to Tell Your Future, offers up a smorgasbord of delectably easy-to-follow techniques to read your future. Get ready to discover your powerful psychic energy and be empowered like never ... Buy or find out more 


The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
Rebecca Miller

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Wise, inspiring and brilliantly compelling, this is an unforgettable debut novel

At fifty, Pippa Lee seems just fine. The devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, the proud mother of successful twin... Buy or find out more 



Monkey And The Dragon
Linda Jaivin

$32.00 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Memoir, biography and travel book, The Monkey and the Dragon is a story about China like nothing you've ever read. This is a book about friendship, music, politics and life on the edge. Linda Jaivin first met Taiwan pop ... Buy or find out more 


From Hormone Hell To Hormone Heaven
Torner Eva

$29.95 – Paperback book / Eva Torner

From Hormone Hell to Hormone Heaven is a simple and practical guide written for women by someone who has actually been there and it covers the steps that any woman can take to get herself back in balance.In From Hormone ... Buy or find out more 



Me And Mr Booker
Cory Taylor

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Looking back, Martha could’ve said no when Mr Booker first tried to kiss her. That would’ve been the sensible thing to do. But Martha is sixteen, she lives in a small dull town—a cemetery with lights—her father is mad, h... Buy or find out more 


Black Glass
Meg Mundell

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications

Tally and Grace are teenage sisters living on the outskirts of society, dragged from one no-hope town to the next by their fugitive father. When an explosion rips their lives apart, they flee separately to the city.

The ... Buy or find out more 



August
Bernard Beckett

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death.As they await their fate, with only a glimmer of hope they might be seen and rescued, we discover the stories of t... Buy or find out more 


Flying with Paper Wings
Sandy Jeffs

$32.95 – Paperback book / Vulgar Press

Sandy Jeffs grew up in an Australian country town in the 1950s and 60s, domestic violence ripping her family to shreds. As a student in the 1970s she came to terms with her sexuality as part of an alternative family. Wit... Buy or find out more 



The Ice Age
Kirsten Reed

$27.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

A teenage girl is in the passenger seat; the driver is an older man. As they criss-cross America, destined for who knows where, she watches him and wants…what he is, what he has. She sees the black looks and knowing smil... Buy or find out more 


The Birth Of Melbourne
Tim Flannery

$26.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was a temperate Kakadu, teeming with wildlife and with soils rich enough to spawn pastoral empires. With the discovery of gold, the... Buy or find out more 



The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History Of North America And Its Peoples
Tim Flannery

$26.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, and Flannery's own best-seller, The Future Eaters, this is ecological history on a monumental scale.

Tim Flannery has achieved something never before attempted: ... Buy or find out more 


What Women Want Next
Susan Maushart

$25.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

It was Susan Maushart s uberfeminist cousin Felicity who pointed out the sheer stupidity of writing a book about women and happiness.

Happiness means different things to different women, Susan. Don t you get it? It s abo... Buy or find out more 



Blood Moon
Garry Disher

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

When hordes of eighteen-year-olds descend on the Peninsula to celebrate the end of exams, the overstretched police of Waterloo know what to expect. Party drugs, public drunkenness; maybe even drink-spiking and sexual ass... Buy or find out more 


Eat Me
Linda Jaivin

$23.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

He peeled off Julias clothes as if they were the leaves of a steamed artichoke, savouring each item of clothing with his nose, eyes and skin, cherishing the tender inner leaves most of all

Eat Me tells the story of four ... Buy or find out more 



The Ethics Of What We Eat
Peter Singer And Jim Mason

$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

After achieving best-selling status in trade paperback, a handsome new format edition of this important work by Australia's Peter Singer.

In 1980 Peter Singer and Jim Mason published Animal Factories, a landmark work on ... Buy or find out more 


Strange Museums
Fiona McGregor

$24.95 – Paperback book / Uwap

The dictum goes: Go to the bars of a place to understand its living. Go to the museums to understand its dead. When Fiona McGregor, writer and performance artist, travelled to Poland in 2006 as a festival participant, it... Buy or find out more 



The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change
Tim Flannery

$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

What does climate change mean?

How will global warming affect our lives?

Is it the cause of wilder storms and more frequent droughts?

Are these events inevitable?

Tim Flannery makes this urgent issue completely accessibl... Buy or find out more 


Something Fishy
Shane Maloney

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

The Hon. Murray Whelan MP. Respectability at last.

And true love, what's more, in the person of the salty-tongued Lyndal Luscombe-who has in her possession a highly significant ultrasound photo.

There must be a catch.

An... Buy or find out more 



Brush Off
Shane Maloney

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

On a sultry summer night Murray Whelan is in the Botanical Gardens tasting Salina Fleet's apricot lips. Meanwhile the body of an artist is being fished from the ornamental moat outside the Art Gallery. The papers called ... Buy or find out more 


Dead Point
Peter Temple

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Jack Irish – lawyer, gambler, finder of people who don't want to be found – is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest betting coup when he is hired by a mystery client to find missing barman ... Buy or find out more 



Blood Moon
Garry Disher

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction 2009.

When hordes of eighteen-year-olds descend on the Peninsula to celebrate the end of exams, the overstretched police of Waterloo know what to expect. Party drugs, publi... Buy or find out more 


This Too Shall Pass
S.J. Finn

$27.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing

"It should be known, if you treat the symptom rather than always concentrating on the cause, paths for recovery can be opened up. The deepest of problems can be cleared." "You could say I'm a walking mirage, a hologram t... Buy or find out more 



Siege
Ismail Kadare

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

In the battle for faith, is it liberation, or invasion?

The Ottoman Army - the most powerful the world had known by that time - lays siege to a Christian fortress in the mountains of Albania. Above the colourful host loo... Buy or find out more 


Wyatt
Garry Disher

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Winner, Best Crime Fiction, Ned Kelly Awards, 2010

Wyatt’s been away. Now he’s back.

Garry Disher’s cool, enigmatic anti-hero has been, uncharacteristically, out of action for a while. Now there’s a new Wyatt—and his... Buy or find out more 



The Philanthropist
John Tesarsch

$27.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing

This novel centres on Charles Bradshaw, an ageing tycoon haunted by his past. When he suffers a heart attack, he abruptly retires and announces that he will give his fortune to charity. This leads to conflict with his wi... Buy or find out more 


Evil In Return
Elena Forbes

$10.00 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Bestselling novelist Joe Logan walks out into a hot summer’s evening in central London. The next day his body is found dumped in a disused Victorian crypt at the Brompton Cemetery.

Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia is... Buy or find out more 



Real And Reel: The Education Of A Film Obsessive Critic
Brian McFarlane

$29.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers

Real and Reel is a light-hearted, ironic account of a lifetime's addiction. It is one person's story, but it may strike familiar sparks among many others. Though there have been plenty of other interests to keep life liv... Buy or find out more 


Dig Tree The Story Of Burke And Wills
Sarah Murgatroyd

$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Murgatroyd has brought together for the first time new scientific and historical evidence, and tells the story of Burke and Wills, the explorers who set out to cross Australia from coast to coast, in brilliant detail.&nb... Buy or find out more 



The Wyatt Butterfly (Port Vila Blues / The Fallout)
Garry Disher

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Two classic Wyatt novels in one volume.

PORT VILA BLUES

Wyatt snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, but can he make it safely back to his bolthole in Hobart?

Port Vila Blues is W... Buy or find out more 


Dog Ear Cafe How The Mt Theo Program Beat The Curse Of Petrol Sniffing
Andrew Stojanovski

$34.95 – Paperback book / Hybrid

Dog Ear Café is a true-life adventure story about how one Aboriginal community beat the odds and defeated petrol sniffing. It tells of the Mt Theo Petrol Sniffing Program: a story of culture clash, of two lines of fire t... Buy or find out more 



Raft
Howard Goldenberg

$29.95 – Paperback book / Hybrid

Every year for over a decade Goldenberg, a white middle-aged doctor, has spent numerous periods working as a relieving doctor for Aboriginal communities in remote places.

On these visits he has observed and recorded Abor... Buy or find out more 


Wyatt
Garry Disher

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Wyatt's been away. Now he's back.

Garry Disher’s cool, enigmatic anti-hero has been, uncharacteristically, out of action for a while. Now there’s a new Wyatt—and his legion of fans will not be disappointed.

The job... Buy or find out more 



The End Of Mr Y
Scarlett Thomas

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She's read about its author before, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, and this is his most notorio... Buy or find out more 


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