First Australians

Australia's financial landscape has changed. Scammers have changed with it — and most safety guides weren't written with Australia in mind. Generic advice about banking, tax authorities, and consumer protections that don't exist here leaves you exposed. This book was written specifically for Australians, addressing the regulatory realities and threats you actually face. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: How to spot and neutralize sophisticated scams specifically targeting Australians The Australian regulatory landscape: Superannuation, tax law, and where the real protections (and gaps) are How to build ...

For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding that the story of her birth be retold. Years later, heavily pregnant with her own first child, she learns what really happened that day. It’s a tale that exemplifies many of the events of her early life, where circumstances sometimes dictated that things be slightly different from how they might seem–including what is meant by her dad being away for ‘work’ and why her legal last name differs from her family’s.

From one of Australia's leading historians, the compelling story of a singular nation still realizing its independence and influence on the global stage As a land associated with extremes—from remote desert terrain to some of the world's deadliest creatures—few countries feel as...

Stacey and Laney are twins—mirror images of each other—and yet they’re as different as the sun and the moon. Stacey works hard at school, determined to get out of their small town. Laney skips school and sneaks out of the house to meet her boyfriend. But when Laney disappears one night, Stacey can’t believe she’s just run off without telling her. As the days pass and Laney doesn’t return, Stacey starts dreaming of her twin. The dreams are dark and terrifying, difficult to understand and hard to shake, but at least they tell Stacey one key thing—Laney is alive.

In the heart of the Australian desert, aging geneticist Joaquim Moreau discovers an extraordinary molecule. Instant healing. Cellular rejuvenation. The disappearance of once-incurable diseases. The miracle cure of the century. And the key to unimaginable wealth. But the molecule hides two secrets. The first: an absolute dependency. Those who take it stop wanting, working, hoping. Its victims sink into a peace so perfect it becomes lethal. The Indigenous peoples of Australia knew this substance and had forbidden it for millennia. The second is even more unsettling: in rare carriers of a ...

New York Times Bestseller ""Probably the best book on living with anxiety that I’ve ever read.” – Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful. Sarah Wilson...

Based on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham, WHITE SPIRIT is an epic historical adventure set in 19th Century Australia. After escaping from the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Graham finds refuge with the Kabi, a tribe of Aborigines who eventually accept him as one of their own. Attempts to recapture Graham are orchestrated by a variety of contrasting characters working for the all-pervasive British Empire. They include Moreton Bay's tyrannical, opium-addicted commandant Lord Cheetham, the dashing yet warlike Lieutenant Hogan, native tracker Barega and the penal...

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game and 99 Percent Mine comes the clever, funny, and unforgettable story of a muscular, tattooed man hired as an assistant to two old women—under the watchful eye of a beautiful retirement home manager. Dazzle (n): Brightness that blinds...

Two Captivating Journeys Through Australia’s Past — One Unforgettable Book Step into the heart of Australia’s rich history with this powerful two-in-one volume—featuring fascinating images that bring every story to life. From the timeless legends of the First Nations to the rise of modern Australia, this book offers a fascinating look at a land shaped by resilience, culture, and story. Whether you're a history lover or mythology enthusiast, you’ll uncover gripping tales and eye-opening truths that most people never learn. With vivid imagery and engaging storytelling, it’s more ...

Is there anything sweeter than the love and adoration of two men? Craving excitement in her life, Mel shares a fantasy with her boyfriend which will change the course of her life and her relationship forever. Mel: I had fantasized about having two men for a long time, but was sure it would never happen. Who wants to share their girlfriend with another man? As if that’ll ever happen! Joel: Mel and I had been seeing one another for some time. Things were amazing between us! We had great sex, she was sweet as pie. When she told me she wanted two men though, I didn’t know what to feel. But ...

Officer Lucy is panty-melting hot, but I can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t right. Can I really trust her? When Sarah follows her best friend to live in the big city away from the small outback down they had both called home their entire lives, Sarah quickly learns about the perils of city living. Her first night she witnesses a police drug operation that will change the course of her life forever. Officer Lucy attends her colleague Officer Daisy’s (of Protecting Her fame) house party to find herself face-to-face with the gorgeous femme witness of a crime she has been ...

On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What...

Our heroes can come from the most ordinary of places. As a shy lad growing up in country Victoria, no one in the district had any idea the man Albert Jacka would become. Albert 'Bert' Jacka was 21 when Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914. Bert soon enlisted in the Australian Imperial...

To fall in love is easy. Sharing all your secret desires, not so much. Lindsay is an Australian tourist who picked up some work on his ranch in the Deep South of the USA. Billy is the cowboy everyone was surprised was still single. Attractive and charismatic, no-one knows what sort of heart beats underneath his macho exterior. Lindsay has a secret she can’t tell him, a secret she is keeping to protect his friends. But Billy has his own secret, a fetish he was never sure he would be able to share with anyone. Will Lindsay be able to trust Billy with her secret? Will Billy be able to ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Thorn Birds comes the sixth volume in the epic Masters of Rome series retelling the fall of the Roman Republic and, ultimately, the fall of Caesar. Grand in scope and vivid in detail, McCullough’s gripping narrative thrusts readers headlong...

America’s missile submarines have stopped hearing from home. Something else has learned the minute they come up to listen. November 3, 2029. In three minutes, attacks no one can trace destroy the stations that speak to America’s nuclear forces, and the missile fields of Montana and Wyoming go dark. With its keys compromised, the Navy suspends every broadcast to its ballistic missile submarines. Until someone can prove a message is genuine, no one will send one. That same night, off the Virginia Capes, six objects fall into the sea. One settles where the Observer lay after America struck...

An addictive debut thriller starring a FBI consultant with a peculiar taste for crime and punishment… A boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a ransom call: pay or else. It’s only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads. Enter Timothy Blake, an...

“I love food” Nakkiah Lui says, and in the next breath whispers “so give us back our land”. In First Eat, a confrontational, raw and highly personal exploration of food politics, power and body sovereignty, Nakkiah Lui asks how our meals would look different if First Nations people owned the land from which the food came. First Eat is about more than just food, it’s an aural feast for a rich future.

From the coal mines of Staffordshire to the highest office in Australia, Joseph Cook's extraordinary political journey crossed the dividing lines of class, party and empire. Born into poverty in 1860, Joseph Cook began working underground as a child. Through self-education, religious conviction and trade union organisation, he rose to become a leader of the early Australian labour movement. Yet the man who entered parliament as a Labor representative would ultimately become one of Labor's most determined political opponents. In Joseph Cook: The Man Who Crossed the Divide, Gordon J. ...

EARTHQUAKE. TSUNAMI. DISASTER. Off the coast of Australia, a massive submarine landslide triggers a tsunami of unprecedented scale, hurtling towards the iconic Queensland Coast. Thousands are in the path of destruction, and time is running out. For Amy Jacobs, it’s an ordinary morning—until she notices the ocean pulling back unnaturally during her walk along the boardwalk with her two young children. She knows something is terribly wrong. Mark Jacobs is across town getting a haircut when he receives the emergency alert: head for higher ground. With nothing but flat terrain in sight, his...