Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Vita Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf

I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you... At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in ...

A Glasshouse of Stars: Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year Younger Readers 2022

Shirley Marr

An exquisite, heartbreakingly beautiful gem of a novel for anyone who loved Wonder, Lenny's Book of Everything, A Monster Calls or When You Reach Me.'Heart-twisting and hopeful, bursting with big feelings and gentle magic. This is a special book from a powerful, compassionate new voice in children's lit...

The Man in the Red Coat

Julian Barnes

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'An absolute tonic for grey winter days' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.In the summer of 1885, three Fren...

Why You Should Give a F*ck About Farming

Gabrielle Chan

'Australia has no national food security policy. No national agriculture policy. We know what has been going on with water allocations and there is still no national response. Those with the means and access shop at farmer's market and order their brunch referring to the origins of their eggs, bacon, bu...

Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy

Jamie Oliver

Jamie's brand-new cookbook, TOGETHER - a joyous celebration of incredible food to share.  Being with our loved ones has never felt so important, and great food is the perfect excuse to get together in any fashion. Each chapter features a meal, from seasonal feasts to curry nights, with a simple, achieva...