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Walter the Farting Dog
William Kotzwinkle, Glen Murray
Warning - This book may cause flatulence. Walter is a fine dog, except for one small problem - he has gas. He can't help it; it's just the way he is. Fortunately, the kids Billy and Betty love him regardless, but Father says he's got to go! Poor Walter, he's going to the dog pound tomorrow. And then, in...
Disobedience
From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very di...
The Young Hornblower Omnibus
The seventeen year old Hornblower became infamous as soon as he stepped on board ship as the midshipman who was seasick in the Spithead, but things were soon to change. Amid battle, action and adventure he proves himself time and time again - courageous in danger, resourceful in moments of difficulty an...
Pearlie and Sapphire (#8)
Twirly-whirly! It's a perfect sunny day for the first Fairy Twilight Fair at Jubilee Park. Worker gnomes are busy setting up the flower ferris-wheel and lots of fun rides, and the decorations look spectacular. Everything seems to be in its place, just right, until Pearlie's cousin Sapphire arrives. Jasp...
How to Avoid a Wombat's Bum
Did you know: The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893 (it beat Kellogg's Corn Flakes by just five years). Scarlett Johansson, Ashton Kutcher and Simon Cowell all have twin brothers. Everton were the first British football club to introduce a stripe down the side of their short...
Pregnancy and Birth: The Essential Australian Checklists
Anticipate everything you need to know, do and remember in pregnancy, during birth and with your baby using 80 comprehensive lists. Fully adapted for Australia, this book will tell you everything you need to know, from what to do when the pregnancy test is positive right through to planning your baby's ...
High Society
In just seven years (from 1950 through 1956), Grace Kelly made eleven feature films. They established her as one of the screen's iconic beauties, and as a performer of rare intelligence and wit. Donald Spoto, a personal friend of Kelly's in whom she confided, is in a unique position to tell the story of...
Corduroy
In 1968, a girl named Lisa fell in love with a little brown bear wearing green overalls with one button missing, and thousands of readers followed suit, making "Corduroy" one of the best-loved children's books of all time. Now, forty years later, Viking proudly celebrates Don Freeman's classic with a ve...
A Giant Rescue (Bindi Wildlife Adventures #11)
Bindi and her family are in Cambodia working with an elephant conservation group in the wild Mondulkirri jungle. They're helping to find non-violent ways for local villagers to deter elephants from destroying their crops. But not all the locals are on board with the project. Bindi notices a Cambodian te...
Darren Lockyer Autobiography
The updated edition of the Rugby League superstar's end-of-career autobiography. In 2011, NRL fans had the chance to share in a piece of rugby league history. The game's record books were re-written, some taken to heights unlikely to ever be matched. Darren Lockyer celebrated his 34th birthday in 2011. ...
Dream Cars: The Hot 100 (Top Gear)
Whether it's through raw power, elegant curves or just an eye-watering price tag, there are a small number of cars that mark the pinnacle of automotive design - and now the experts at Top Gear have chosen the very best of them. Top Gear: Dream Cars - The Hot 100 is a celebration of the cars that achieve...
Come Close: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 74
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful...' Sensual, sun-soaked verse on love and the gods in ancient Greece, from the poet named 'the tenth Muse' by Plato. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Pen...
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts : Little Black Classic
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...' In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically e...
The Light Between Oceans
This months-long New York Times bestseller is "irresistible...seductive...with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page," (O, The Oprah Magazine). AFTER FOUR HARROWING YEARS ON THE WESTERN Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janu...
The Sense of Style
Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In th...
Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe
"Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northe...
Kicking it Around the Globe: Tall Tales from the Rugby Pitch to the Pub
Not too many footballers reach the pinnacle of their sport, while along the way being sledged by ball-boys, mystified by the coffee-table' rule, terrified by Jonah Lomu and sharing a rum and Coke with the future King of England. Not to mention scoring 25 points in a World Cup final. Yes, you could say t...
The Truth and Lies of Ella Black
From the author of the "unputdownable" international hit The One Memory of Flora Banks comes a fast-paced cross-continental journey of identity, family, darkness and light, and the ways in which we define ourselves. Ella Black has always had dark inclinations. She's successfully hidden her evil alter e...
A Deadly Education
In the start of an all-new series, the bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver introduces you to a dangerous school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death - until one girl begins to rewrite its rules. Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered.There are n...
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