Book Design Award Winners 2011
Quay: Food Inspired by Nature
$95.00 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
From the culinary genius Peter Gilmore, one of the top 50 chefs in the world, comes this eagerly-anticipated book. Quay’s stunning design and photography perfectly echoes Peter’s nature-based philosophy and the organic p... Buy or find out more →
The Staring Owl
$22.99 – Hardcover book / Omnibus Books
The Staring Owl finds it hard to fit in. Having been brought up to stare at everything and everyone, he finds that most people, and even the ducks at the park, don't enjoy that level of scrutiny. Although he can always g... Buy or find out more →
Shack: In Praise of an Australian Icon
$39.95 – Paperback book / Lantern Books
In Australia shacks have become our protest against the brick veneer, the place where we unwind on holiday, the workshop that feeds our soul.
Photographer Simon Griffiths has travelled the countryside, from Jericho in Ta... Buy or find out more →
The Food Book
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
The Food Book is a complete food and cookery package for Australian school students. Changing the way Australian students engage with food, The Food Book integrates recipes, skills, nutrition, health and food issues as n... Buy or find out more →
A Life In Frocks
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Pier 9
A Life in Frocks is about the divine obsession' a woman's love for clothes. In particular, it is a personal, entertaining, joyous and seductive exploration of the significance of clothes, filtered through one woman's lif... Buy or find out more →
The Midnight Zoo
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Her muzzle wrinkled, and Andrej saw a glimpse of teeth and pale tongue. 'They smell the same, ' the lioness murmured. 'My cubs smelt as she does. Like pollen.' She breathed deeply again, and Andrej saw the missing cubs r... Buy or find out more →
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Honour, duty and a properly brewed cup of tea ... the sweet, moving and uplifting story of a highly unlikely relationship between a very proper English gentleman and a widowed Pakistani shopkeeper, now in paperback.
Majo... Buy or find out more →
The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society (Gift Edition)
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
A gloriously embellished edition of the heartwarming novel of post-war friendship, love and books. Description
A moving tale of post-war friendship, love and books, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a capt... Buy or find out more →
Ape House
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
An absorbing, heart-warming and ultimately uplifting story of how six bonobo apes change the lives of three humans, from master storyteller Sara Gruen, author of the international bestseller, Water for Elephants.
Sam, Bo... Buy or find out more →
Journey To The Stone Country
$65.00 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Special edition of the 2003 Miles Franklin Award winner, published to commemorate Allen + Unwin's 20th birthday celebrations. A superbly compelling work of betrayals, compassion, secrets and reconciliation.
WINNER OF THE... Buy or find out more →
News As It Happens: An Introduction To Journalism
$83.95 – Paperback book / Oxford University Pr
News reporting and dissemination is no longer a once-a-day occurrence but an instant connection to the audience. News as it Happens reflects this change, providing practical guidelines for working as a journalist in the ... Buy or find out more →
Jasper Jones
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 2009 Indie Book of the Year award.
Full of unforgettable characters, a page-turning pace and outrageously good dialogue, this is a glorious novel - thoughtful, funny, heartbreaking and wise - about outsider... Buy or find out more →
The Tomorrow Book
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions, such as common usage of solar and wind power.
Lively, fun ... Buy or find out more →
Wicked Warriors And Evil Emperors
$16.95 – Paperback book / Puffin
Imagine you're made king at the age of twelve. You have plenty of enemies. You have a million soldiers armed with all kinds of awesome weapons, you have tons of gold and a network of spies. What would you do with all tha... Buy or find out more →
Graffiti Moon
$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Young Adult Fiction.
Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist.
Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose.
Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing... Buy or find out more →
Somme Mud: Young Readers' Edition
$18.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Beautifully presented young readers’ edition of the bestselling memoir of a young soldier on the First World War’s Western Front.
'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live i... Buy or find out more →
The Rebel Prince: The Moorehawke Trilogy Book Three
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The gripping finale of the addictive romantic medieval trilogy that began with The Poison Throne and continued with The Crowded Shadows. Description
Who will survive the final battle? Set in a fantastical medieval Europe... Buy or find out more →
The Crowded Shadows: The Moorehawk Trilogy Book Two
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
In this explosive sequel to The Poison Throne, Wynter Moorehawke travels unprotected in bandit-infested mountains, searching for missing Prince Alberon. But how many of the King's enemies are lurking in these crowded sha... Buy or find out more →
The Poison Throne: The Moorehawke Trilogy Book One
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Wynter returns from a five-year exile in the bleak Northlands to find her beloved homeland in turmoil. King Jonathan's civilised, multicultural realm is no more; the gibbets and cages have returned. Days of laughter, fri... Buy or find out more →