Great Literary Friendships by Janet Phillips
$34.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour | Reading Level: very good
Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From Jane Eyre and Helen Burns’ poignant schoolgirl relationship to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn’s adventures on the Mississippi, fictional friends have supported, guided, comforted, nursed and at times betrayed ...Show more
Dogs Who Changed the World: 50 dogs who altered history, inspired literature... or ruined everything by Dan Jones
$26.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour
Dogs Who Changed the World is a beautifully illustrated, heart-warming book that celebrates all dogs and proves that every single one of them is absolute magic. Dogs have trotted at our collective side for tens of thousands of years, bound up in the story of humanity. They have inspired great works of ...Show more
Shout Out to the Girls: A Celebration of Awesome Australian Women by Various
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour
Let's give a shout-out to 50 awesome Australian women with these easy-to-read biographies of their incredible achievements. From Cathy Freeman to Turia Pitt, Edith Cowan to Julia Gillard, Cate Blanchett to Olivia Newton-John, plus rally car drivers, molecular biologists, and more, this book is a celebra ...Show more
Anti-Stress - Meditation Through Colouring by Stan Rodski
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour
While there are colouring books of every description available this book is drawn from the science behind using colouring to reduce stress. The fact is our brains get overwhelmed at times by the speed of life and bombardment of information. It is essential for our health and wellbeing to be able to draw ...Show more
Life's Too Short to Drink Cheap Wine - A Celebration of Friendship by Kerry Anne Jordinson (Illustrator)
$22.00 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour
Humorous picture book celebrating friendship between women through the ups and downs of life usually with a glass of bubbles in hand.
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
$14.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour
A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. It does take all kinds. If you visit bookshops more often than the grocery store, you'll recognize the types. ...Show more
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: The Animated Story
$45.00 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour
Ahead of the long-awaited film on BBC One this C hristmas Day, a breathtaking new imagining of the original record-breaking story. Charlie Mackesy's beloved The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been adapted into an animated short film, coming to BBC One and iPlayer this Christmas. This beautiful ...Show more
Dave O'Neil's Parenthood: Completely Unsupervised by Dave O'Neil
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour
Ah, parenting. After 200,000 years of keeping kids alive, you'd reckon we'd have it nailed. But, as the decades roll on, it seems we're as clueless as ever. In the great tradition of mums and dads throughout history, we're still making it up as we go along. Hopscotch may have given way to Xbox and fish ...Show more
Silver Leaves by Gladys Milroy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour
Age range 6+A beautiful story about conservation, working together and hope.Owl and Night Parrot are nocturnal. They have a lovely big tree well away from all the noisy birds … until one day they are woken up by the birds fighting over space in their tree. Owl is very angry, until they discover the poor ...Show more
Rebel Without A Clause by Sue Butler
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour
The English language is changing constantly. We invent new words and phrases, we mash up idioms, we mispronounce, misuse, misappropriate. Sue Butler has heard it all and is ready to defend and disagree with common usage. Veering from tolerance to outrage, she examines how the word sheila took a nose-div ...Show more
Tales of the Samurai - Illustrated Edition by A B Mitford
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions | Reading Level: near fine
In this lavishly illustrated volume, A.B. Mitford presents ancient Japanese tales filled with action, romance, and the supernatural. Proud lords and their loyal retainers, a brave samurai and his faithless wife, a vampire cat, and howling spirits are all featured in the engaging stories that follow, inc ...Show more
The Great Shark Hunt (Gonzo Papers 1) by Hunter S. Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books and Humour
'Well ...yes, and here we go again' Dr Hunter S. Thompson Indeed we do. Here, in one chunky volume, is the best of gonzo. From Private Thompson in trouble with the air force, to the devastating portrait of the ageing Muhammad Ali. Taking in the Kentucky Derby, Freak Power in the Rockies, Nixon in '68, M ...Show more