Book Design Awards 2010 Winners
The Terrible Plop
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Here is the story
Of the Terrible PLOP,
With a bear and a rabbit
And a hop hop hop.
But what is the PLOP?
And where does it hide?
Open the book
And look inside . . .
From award-winning author Ursula Dubosarsky and illust... Buy or find out more →
The Songs Of Sapa
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Luke Nguyen, of Secrets of the Red Lantern fame, is going home. Travelling on a personal and culinary tour through Vietnam, Luke visits his family and friends, and is invited into the homes of local Vietnamese food exper... Buy or find out more →
Etcetera
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Packed with tips of the interior stylist s trade, Etcetera is a lavishly photographed interiors book in which every image demonstrates a clear and easily replicable principle that will help transform a room without the n... Buy or find out more →
Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Lantern Books
This is a joint biography of architects Walter Burley Griffin, of Canberra fame, and his wife, Marion Mahony Griffin. After their formative years in Chicago - the centre of the Prairie School of architecture made most fa... Buy or find out more →
Leave To Remain: A Memoir
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
In Leave to Remain: A Memoir, Abbas El-Zein tells his story of growing up in a middleclass family in civil-war Beirut, a city in the throes of self-destruction, yet obstinately clinging to its cosmopolitan past. El-Zein ... Buy or find out more →
Valley Of Grace
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Crooks Like Us
$49.95 – Flexi / Historic Houses Trust
In the 1920s Sydney police began quietly assembling a gallery of the citys most light-fingered, fleet-footed, silver-tongued rogues con artists, magsmen, housebreakers, thugs, gunmen, shoplifters, drug dealers, pickpocke... Buy or find out more →
Jump Over The Puddle Friends For Keeps
$13.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
Come and play with Panda, Sheep and Owl! In these delightful, gentle stories, three friends share the simple adventures of playtime. Panda is bossy, Sheep is timid and Owl is shy, but their different personalities work p... Buy or find out more →
Wanted: The Perfect Pet
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Once upon a time, there lived a boy called Henry. What Henry wanted more than anything in the whole wide world . . . MORE than chips . . . MORE than a cowboy costume . . . MORE than an all-expenses-paid trip to the... Buy or find out more →
Swerve
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Hugh is 16. He loves cello, he's a closet car fanatic, and he has no luck with girls. When his grandfather, Poppy, asks him to go on one last road trip to Uluru in his 1970 Holden HG Monaro GTS 350 V8, Hugh decides, for ... Buy or find out more →
Riding The Black Cockatoo
$18.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
This is the compelling story of how the skull of an Aboriginal man, found on the banks of the Murray River over 40 years ago, came to be returned to his Wamba Wamba descendants. It is a story of awakening, atonement, for... Buy or find out more →
Oxford Atlas Project 2
$29.95 – Paperback book / Oxford University Pr
Oxford Atlas Project 2 introduces more formal map-reading skills for students to use as they explore the amazing diversity of our world. Thematic sections focus on natural, human and global issues to explore how humans i... Buy or find out more →