Books published by Bonnier Publishing Australia

Celebrates 100 years since the outbreak of World War One by featuring stories behind 100 memorials to the fallen from across Australia. In a distinctively original and captivating way this shows how the terrible sacrifice of young Australians has reverberated across this country ...through time and how the memories still resonate in different ways.
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Learn to play the game you love with this AFLW skills book. Start with Aussie rules basics like HANDBALLING and the DROP PUNT KICK and work up to epic moves like SELLING CANDY and the TORPEDO KICK!Across Australia, more than 420,000 girls and women are now playing Australian foot...ball! More than ever before, girls and women are getting involved in Australian football as players, coaches, umpires and spectators.AFLW Super Skills will help you to get the right skills to play Australian football, step by step. No matter what your ability, there's always a way to enjoy and participate in Australian footballEasy step-by-step instructions on each skill, with real up-and-coming young women footballers, Madison Prespakis and Ruby Schleicher, demonstrating each move broken down in a way that is immediately clear. All set out in friendly and empowering language, describing the rules, game positions and a short history of Australian football.Join the zeitgeist of AFLW, and encourage girls and young women to get involved in Australia's number one national sport!
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Blanche d'Alpuget's critically acclaimed historical fiction quartet Birth of the Plantagenets, set in the court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitane.Geoffrey the Handsome, the virile and charming Duke of Normandy, seduces Queen Eleanor of France to spy for him in the struggle betw...een Normandy and France and Normandy and England. Said to be the most beautiful woman in Europe, and very rich, Eleanor has not been able to give birth to an heir for France. Her liaison with Geoffrey could remedy that or lead to her downfall and Geoffrey's death. But what begins with cool calculation becomes a passionate affair. Despite his love for Eleanor, however, Geoffrey has larger plans: to help his warrior son, Henry, seize the English throne from the uncle who usurped it from its rightful heir, Henry's mother. When Henry is forced to intervene to save the lives of his father and Eleanor, he falls foul of the French queen-and madly in love with her Byzantine maid. Should he become King of England, however, this dazzling foreign girl will never be acceptable as his queen. These two relationships, both forbidden, both perilous, are at the centre of a tale of consuming ambition, family vengeance and political intrigue set in the glorious flowering of troubadour culture, mysticism and learning that is 12th century France.In The Young Lion, Henry, great grandson of William the Conqueror, inherits Normandy, aged 17. Urged on by his mother, Empress Matilda, he determines to re-conquer England for family honour, but to do so he needs the wealth of the headstrong Eleanor of Aquitaine. Their marriage of convenience is astonishingly fecund and they begin to found a dynasty. However, it carries ominous undertones for both spouses.
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Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside - watching, picking up tell-tale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on ...a hunt for the killer. But he can't do it alone. Caleb and his troubled friend Frankie, an ex-cop, start with one clue: Scott, the last word the murder victim texted to Caleb. But Scott is always one step ahead. This gripping, original and fast-paced crime thriller is set between a big city and a small coastal town, Resurrection Bay, where Caleb is forced to confront painful memories. Caleb is a memorable protagonist who refuses to let his deafness limit his opportunities, or his participation in the investigation. But does his persistence border on stubbornness? And at what cost? As he delves deeper into the investigation Caleb uncovers unwelcome truths about his murdered friend - and himself. 'Viskic has created a genuinely unique and captivating character who deserves a place alongside Jack Irish and Cliff Hardy.' - P.M. Newton, author of The Old School and Beams Falling.
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In this wonderful and honest book, former press secretary to the royal family Dickie Arbiter reveals the inner-workings of everyday life inside Buckingham Palace and what it s really like to be On Duty with the Queen