Vinland Saga (#5)

Makoto Yukimura

A Life Without Purpose   After the assassination of King Sweyn and the execution of Askeladd, Thorfinn lost the object of his vengeance, his sense of purpose, and his freedom. Now a broken young man, he labors far from the battlefield, clearing a forest for his slave master's farm alongside the amiabl...

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the p...

Guinness World Records 2024

Guinness World Records

This year's edition compiles the very best of the thousands of new records approved over the past year. And with lockdowns and quarantines gradually becoming a distant memory for much of the world, the claims have been flooding in! · Take the plunge with our opening BLUE PLANET chapter, celebrating wate...

Shoulda Been Higher: A Celebration of 30 Years of Triple J's Hottest 100

Tom W Clarke

The Hottest 100 is a national institution.Every year since 1993, Australia's national youth broadcaster triple j has held annual countdown of listeners' 100 favourite songs of the year, as voted by the public. It's as iconic of modern Australiana as sausage sizzles and leadership spills. It has become s...

Chico the Schnauzer

Taryn Brumfitt

From Australian of the Year and founder of the Body Image Movement, Taryn Brumfitt, comes the delightful story of Chico the Schnauzer, a dog who learns to embrace all the wonderful things his unique body can do! Chico the Schnauzer goes on the biggest playdate of his life, spending time with all his do...

The Hunter

Tana French

It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. They're coming to get rich, but what they bring is trouble. Waiting for them is Cal Hooper, a retired Chicago detective who moved to rural Ireland looking for some peace. He's found it, more or less - in his relationsh...

Smoke & Mirrors

Barry Jonsberg

Grace McKellon isn't a 'people person'. All she needs is her magic tricks and her wise-cracking grandmother - until a new friend comes along and promises to make her a social media star. A wonderful and intriguing middle fiction novel from an internationally acclaimed, bestselling Australian author. I d...