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...