First Australians

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 ...

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.

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

It's a beautiful day to be alive, Bill Dickerson thought, seconds before he tumbled from the viaduct onto the jagged rocks below . . . His awful death made national news. But still, one year on, Bill's widow Carol has received no explanation about what happened. Was it suicide? An accident?...

Paternity Unknown Sydney 1788 - 1800 The Aftermath of the First Fleet landing. Can forgiveness be that easy? Connie Waterson is traumatised after she became one of the victims of the attack when the convict women were landed on February 6th, 1788. She finds herself expecting an unwanted child. Along with her friends, she must learn to cope with the challenges of their new environment while protecting the life growing within her. Nigel Bray is a young convict who almost instantly regrets his carnal actions on the day the prisoners from the Lady Penrhyn landed. Knowing that Connie is the ...

From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon, comes the second installment in his monumental Bomb Light series - a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic...

A thriving monarchy had ruled over Hawaii for generations. Taro fields and fish ponds had long sustained native Hawaiians but sugar plantations had been gradually subsuming them. This fractured, vulnerable Hawaii was the country that Queen Lili‘uokalani, or Lili‘u, inherited when she came to power at the end of the nineteenth century.

A deep cultural analysis of Indigenous meanings of the symbol of the snake, with all it can teach us, from Sand Talk author Tyson Yunkaporta and coauthor Megan Kelleher. The Serpent in Aboriginal stories is both creator and destroyer, dwelling between physical and spiritual worlds, between story...

In the winter of 1925, a pair of 21-year-old men drove out of Perth in a small second-hand Citroen nicknamed “Bubsie” headed for Darwin. At the time, no motor vehicle had ever drive to Darwin from Perth and their borrowed Citroen had less horsepower than a modern-day lawn mower.

It's hard to escape the feeling that something is deeply wrong . . . that life has become precariously off-balance. We are hit hourly with headlines about catastrophic wildfires, unprecedented flooding, record heat waves, collapsing democracies, AI and nuclear threat, rising economic inequality...

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...

Shortlisted for the Matt Richell New Writer of the Year, ABIAs 2026 A country town, a brutal murder, a shameful past, a reckoning to come... The injustices of the past and dangers of the present envelop Aboriginal policewoman Renee Taylor, when her unwilling return to the small outback town of...

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...

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...