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To celebrate 140 years of Test cricket, Ken Piesse, our pre-eminent cricket writer and owner of Australia's finest private collection of cricket images - photographs, cigarette and trade cards, badges posters, blotting papers has created a visual treat for the cricket fan. This r...eally exciting and compelling mix of illustrative material and narrative history through-the-ages makes for a wonderful gift book. This is the most exciting event in the cricket publishing calendar: a very pictorial history of Australian cricket.
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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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By Mile, Five
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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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Viskic has created a genuinely unique and captivating character who deserves a place alongside Jack Irish and Cliff Hardy.' P.M. NewtonDeaf since early childhood, Caleb Zelic is used to meeting life head-on. Now, he's struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead,... his ex-wife, Kat, is avoiding him, and nightmares haunt his waking hours.But when a young woman is killed, after pleading for his help in sign language, Caleb is determined to find out who she was. The trail leads Caleb back to his hometown, Resurrection Bay. The town is on bushfire alert, and simmering with racial tensions. As Caleb delves deeper, he uncovers secrets that could ruin any chance of reuniting with Kat, and even threaten his life. Driven by his own demons, he pushes on. But who is he willing to sacrifice along the way?
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Australia's pre-eminent rural photographer, Andrew Chapman returns with a new book of photographs featuring the farm in all its glory the people, the sheds, the dogs, and tractors.Australian farmers value their acreage, their homes and their sheds with a passion. For it is on mos...t farms that they have the space to collect, to store and to renovate all those bits that may one day come in handy. Quite a few farmers that when faced with a full shed of 'stuff' have the perfect solution build another shed!It's on many of these farms that Chapman has recorded the rustic, the unusual, the curious and the comic. Chapman has travelled widely around the country to bring you this magnificent book of images that are not only fascinating, but a valuable document of a style a farming that is fast disappearing as the larger corporate properties start to dominate the landscape.
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By Mile, Five
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Love the game! Be inspired by the AFLW every day with the Dream Big! AFLW Poster Book.Celebrate your favourite AFLW clubs, rising stars and epic moves with 16 awesome AFLW posters! Includes a poster for each of the AFLW teams Collingwood, GWS, Fremantle, Carlton, Greater Western ...Bulldogs, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne there's something for every supporter that loves the game!
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Adam, a serious cinema nerd, has no idea that he is the Hot Guy a man so ridiculously attractive there's a Facebook group dedicated to seducing him. Cate, a sports publicist who loves to crack a joke, is feeling down about her newly single status when her friends suggest the perf...ect pick-me-up: a night with the Hot Guy.But that one night leaves both Cate and Adam wanting Is a genuine connection possible with a guy this phenomenally smokin'? Written by film critic duo Mel Campbell and Anthony Morris, and packed with movie-related humour, The Hot Guy is a funny, warm, savvy, and genuine rom-com, with characters you won't want to kick out of bed.Melbourne Writers Festival director and rom-com fan Lisa Dempster said: 'I loved this manuscript. It's really sharp and I like the satirical elements Line by line, the writing is fantastic and funny.'
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Westography' is the name Warren Kirk gives to his photographs of Melbourne's western suburbs; but they transcend postcodes. The mysterious world they capture - poignant remnants half-forgotten yet strangely familiar - could be found in any large Australian city whose suburbs have... been gentrified in the last thirty years. They are photos of a past that still exists, out on the edge of the everyday. - Helen Garner
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A Danish crime debut which has already sold more than 10,000 copies and featured prominently in the Danish bestseller charts.When a picture of two Danish girls who disappeared on a boat bound for England in 1985 surfaces in an old suitcase, journalist Nora Sand's professional cur...iosity is immediately awakened.Before she knows it, she is mixed up in the case of a serial killer serving a life sentence in a notorious prison. The quest to discover the truth about the missing girls may be more dangerous that she had ever imagined 'An extremely well composed and efficient thriller Lone Theils is familiar with the methods of the genre and writes with a sharp sense for detail and with an exquisite feeling for the macabre.' Politiken
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Pentridge tells of prison life and events during the troubled 1970s when rebellion was in the air, and when Pentridge housed some of the most notorious prisoners in Australian criminal history, including arguably its most punished inmate, William O'Meally, the last man to be flog...ged in Australia.A rich and colourful history spanning some 150 years of grim punishments,controversial hangings and prison escapes.Documents the prison closure and relocation of the remains of executed prisoners.Features accounts of the famous criminals, from William O'Meally to Chris 'Rent-A-Kill' Flannery.
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