Cover Design Awards 2010 Shortlist
Wild Food
$44.00 – Hardcover book / Lantern Books
Juleigh Robins, entrepreneur and food lover, introduces us to the flavours of the wild with this collection of recipes based on native ingredients sourced from the deserts, forests and bushland of Australia. Discover the... 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 →
Snowflakes And Schnapps
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Join Jane Lawson as she takes you on a culinary journey through the magnificent cold-climate cuisines of the snow-cloaked regions of northern, central and eastern Europe. From the seaside towns of Scandinavia, to the alp... Buy or find out more →
MoVida Rustica: Spanish Traditions and Recipes
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Following the multi-award winning title MoVida, chef and restaurateur Frank Camorra returns to his native Spain in this companion book. In MoVida Rustica, Frank delivers many traditional as well as innovative recipes tha... Buy or find out more →
The Past And Other Lies
$29.95$16.95 – Paperback book / Pier 9
A captivating novel about sisters, faded memories and long-hidden secrets that span three generations.
At the height of Britain’s General Strike in 1926 a red double-decker bus driven by a volunteer crashes into a low br... Buy or find out more →
The Marriage Club: No One Really Knows What Goes on Inside a Marriage
$10.00 – Trade paperback / Viking
How well do you know your husband? How well do you know your friends?
Leith Kremmer is a woman with secrets. But before we can discover her plans, she is killed at the hands of her husband. Her lifelong friends wonder if... Buy or find out more →
Good To A Fault
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
When Clara Purdy takes a dreamy turn in her car and ends up plowing into the lives of the Gage family, her low-impact, nine-to-five life in the suburbs is transformed into heady, noisy chaos. Winner of the 2009 Commonwea... Buy or find out more →
American Rust
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A heart-wrenching, unputdownable tale of redemption and survival in small-town America in the tradition of Richard Ford, Pete Dexter and Cormac McCarthy.
'A grimly powerful hybrid: provocative literary fiction crossed wi... Buy or find out more →
The Nest
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Sixteen-year-old Robin lives with his father in the Victorian Alps. His dad runs a snowmobile hire business. His mother left them when Robin was only a baby. Robin lives in fear of his bullying father who hates Robin and... Buy or find out more →
The Ghost's Child
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
A strange boy suddenly appears in a lonely old woman’s lounge room. As she serves him tea, Hartnett observes that the milk turns the tea ‘a pressed-rose brown’ and immediately we are in a world where language makes exhil... Buy or find out more →
Liar
$22.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Micah Wilkins admits she's a liar. But will murder be enough of a reason to stop lying? An extraordinary and original story that will have you grasping for the truth until the very last page.
Secrets, lies, murder and be... Buy or find out more →
Hostage
$18.99 – Paperback book / Black Dog Books Kids
What if you could have your life over again. Would it be different? Tully becomes a hostage when she is abducted from a chemist on Christmas Eve. Her ordeal lasts 24 hours. Or so she says. Buy or find out more →
My Pony Scrapbook
$9.95 – Paperback book / Puffin
Hi!My name is Rebekah Taylor Pascoe, but everyone calls me Becky.This scrapbook is all about horses and ponies and how to take care of them.There are pictures of my pony, Chance, plus heaps of information about learning ... Buy or find out more →
My Footy Scrapbook
$9.95 – Paperback book / Puffin
Hi there! My name is Alex and I LOVE footy! This scrapbook is all about footy and how to play it. It's packed with heaps of footy information and lots of photos showing skills and drills. I started playing footy th... Buy or find out more →
My Ballet Scrapbook
$9.95 – Paperback book / Puffin
Hi!My name is Julia and this scrapbook is all about ballet and why I LOVE to dance! There are lots of great pictures, as well as information about ballet positions and exercises, and others kinds of dance. So if you love... Buy or find out more →
Yummy Ice-Cream: Friends For Keeps
$13.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
Panda and Sheep have ice-creams.
They look yummy.
Will Owl taste them? Buy or find out more →
Jump Over The Puddle: Friends For Keeps
$14.99 – Hardcover 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 →
Nanny Piggins And The Wicked Plan: Book Two
$14.95 – Paperback book / Random House
When Mr Green announces his diabolical plan - he has decided to get married - his children (Derrick, Samantha and Michael) are horrified. Especially when they discover his real motive - he wants to get married so he can ... Buy or find out more →
Nanny Piggins And The Runaway Lion: Book Three
$14.95 – Paperback book / Random House
A curly tale of revenge, rescue and jam-filled doughnuts.
With a runaway lion loose in the neighbourhood, Derrick, Samantha and Michael feel scared. Nanny Piggins feels like a slice of cake. And Boris feels like that lio... Buy or find out more →
The Adventures Of Nanny Piggins
$14.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Nanny Piggins, the world's most glamorous flying pig, runs away from the circus and goes to live with the Greens as their nanny. The Green children, Derrick, Samantha and Michael, fall in love with her instantly. Who cou... Buy or find out more →
Robot Riot!: Schooling Around Book 4
$12.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
The Robot Riot! Test
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Henry McThrottle suspects that the new girl, Roberta Flywheel, is A: a spy. B: a boy. C: a robot.
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Roberta writes in her diary that she is on a mission to A: kiss Henry. B: clean up the school. C:... Buy or find out more →
Mascot Madness: Schooling Around Book 3
$12.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
The Mascot Madness! Test:
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Northwest Southeast Central School have never beaten Northwest West Academy at their annual track and field challenge because A: they're better at knitting than they are at sport. B: they are ... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Adventures Of Blinky Bill
$40.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Blinky Bill, the mischievous little koala, has been a favourite with children since his first appearance in 1933. His shenanigans at Miss Pym′s shop and in Farmer Smifkins′s vegie patch quickly earned him a devoted follo... Buy or find out more →
Blueback
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
'A beautiful story, beautifully told' West Australian
Abel Jackson's boyhood belongs to a vanishing world. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. It's just him and... Buy or find out more →
Corbin Harris' Ultimate Guide To Skateboarding
$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Professional Skateboarder Corbin Harris guides you through everything you need to know about skateboarding. From choosing the right set-up and perfecting your ollies, to building your own ramp and competing like a pro.
F... 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 →
My Go-Kart Scrapbook
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Hi there!
My name is Ashton and I LOVE racing go-karts. This scrapbook is all about go-karting. It has loads of information about the equipment you need for go-karting, as well as heaps of great pictures. So if you like ... Buy or find out more →
Running With The Horses
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Celebrating the turbulent history of the famous Spanish Riding School, Running With The Horses is a picture book for all ages from an international star.
Nina and her father live in a beautiful riding school famous for t... Buy or find out more →
Great Aussie Inventions
$16.99 – Paperback book / Black Dog Books Kids
Who invented the black box flight recorder, stump cam, spray-on skin, the baby capsule, the lawn mower and Hills Hoist? Australians, that’s who.
Necessity is the mother of invention. When white settlers first came to A... Buy or find out more →
Let's Play House: Friends For Keeps
$13.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
Panda, Sheep and Owl are building a cubby house.
Will they all fit inside? Buy or find out more →
Vivi Finds Bean
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
This is the tale of Vivi, a little German girl who decides to travel to Australia to find Bean, the godmother she s never met. Travelling by whale and camel, and on a turtle s back, she finally lands in Sydney and after ... Buy or find out more →
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 Roots Of Civilisation: Plants That Changed The World
$69.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
They feed us, shelter us, cure us and clean the air that we breathe. The Roots of Civilisation takes a closer look at the plants that most of us just take for granted, but which have changed the world, for better and for... Buy or find out more →
Valley Of Grace
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
The Princess And The Packet Of Frozen Peas
$27.99 – Hardcover book / Scholastic
Once upon a time there was a prince called Henrik who wanted very much to fall in love and get married. He was an outdoorsy type, and hoped that the princess he married would like hockey and camping. And so Prince Henrik... 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 →
Pink
$17.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Ava Simpson is trying on a whole new image. Stripping the black dye from her hair, she heads off to the Billy Hughes School for Academic Excellence, leaving her uber-cool girlfriend, Chloe, behind.Ava is quickly taken un... Buy or find out more →
Treasure Fever: Schooling Around Book 1
$12.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
It doesn't take Henry McThrottle long to realise that Mr Brainfright, his new teacher at Northwest Southeast Central School, is rather unusual. His last teacher would never have fallen out of the window - twice - or taug... Buy or find out more →
I Blame Duchamp
$49.95$33.95 – Hardcover book / Lantern Books
'My musings on art could be described as a benign diatribe; one inspired by a genuine if watchful passion.'
In this sweeping collection of essays, Edmund Capon describes his lifelong fascination with art and the artists ... 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 →
Pencil Of Doom: Schooling Around Book 2
$12.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Mr Brainfright is a teacher at Northwest Southeast Central School.
He teaches Grade Five and in his class is a student called Henry McThrottle who likes telling stories. That's me. I'm Henry McThrottle and this is my lat... Buy or find out more →