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The Terrible Plop
Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner

$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
Luke Nguyen

$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
Sibella Court

$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
Alasdair McGregor

$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
Abbas El-Zein

$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
Marion Halligan

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin

A lyrical work full of hope and children set in lustrous modern-day Paris.
 
Fanny and Gerard fall in love in a way that surprises even them as their lives fill with good sex and loving companionship; but...


Crooks Like Us
Peter Doyle

$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
Emma Quay and Anna Walker

$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
Fiona Roberton

$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
Phillip Gwynne

$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
John Danalis

$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 



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