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Most young children are captivated by insects and will happily while away hours in the garden observing the creatures that live there, and Helen Milroy’s Backyard Bugs is the perfect …

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Pushing Back comprises thirty-seven gems of fiction by John Kinsella; one of Australia’s literary treasures. While characters, eras, settings, and forms vary, the stories throughout examine human behaviour with unsettling, …

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When the garrulous and slightly annoying Gloria stops eating, sleeping, and talking, her recently-made-redundant salesman husband Bernard does not know what to do. Their decades-long marriage has produced a son, …

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An exuberant celebration of the joy and chaos of everyday family life – the highs, the lows and everything in between. Detailed, delightful illustrations by Ruth de Vos expertly capture …

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The Last Bookshop is a tale for all those who love books and reading, with an added dash of romance. Cait Copper is the twenty-something owner of city-based bookshop Book …

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