Penguin Books Australia

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR LOVE?

Kay Schubach almost has it all – a great job, a beautiful apartment, a life of champagne and mixing it with Sydney's A-list, and a steady relationship.

By chance she meets handsome and charismatic Simon.  He sweeps her off her feet with promises the one thing her younger boyfriend won't give her – a baby.  She takes the biggest risk of her life...

Claire Bidwell Smith, a fourteen-year-old only child, learns that both her parents have cancer. The fear of becoming a family of one compels her to make a series of fraught choices, set against the glittering backdrop of New York and Los Angeles—and the pall of regret.
When the inevitable happens and Claire is alone in the world, she is inconsolable at the revelation that suddenly she is no one's...

This is the spellbinding follow-up to Kate Holden's memoir In My Skin , but it has a different story to tell. The Romantic describes Kate's journey from Melbourne to Rome and Naples, from romance and sex to love, from loss to understanding—and back again.
This is a book about everything from sex with strangers to the heartbreaking realities of being in love. It's about the pride of fierce independence...

This is the spellbinding follow-up to Kate Holden's memoir In My Skin, but it has a different story to tell. The Romantic describes Kate's journey from Melbourne to Rome and Naples, from romance and sex to love, from loss to understanding—and back again.

This is a book about everything from sex with strangers to the heartbreaking realities of being in love. It's about the pride of fierce independence...

Arguably the greatest player to represent Australia's most famous football club, Nathan Buckley's extraordinary achievements include a Brownlow Medal, a Norm Smith Medal, six club best and fairest awards and nine seasons as captain of Collingwood.

French Essence is a celebration of life in Provence, one of the most charming regions of France.   Vicki Archer reveals the underpinnings of that famous French ambience and sense of style, and offers inspiration to all of us who want to understand the beauty, experience the lifestyle and emulate the interiors of this exquisite part of the world.

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In My Skin describes an extraordinary journey through an often hidden world of heroin and prostitution. Kate's story is one of survival and resourcefulness, and an unflinching look at the consequences of addiction.

On moving to Paris, I met many Parisians who welcomed me into their world for a morning, and afternoon, a night - I felt like Alice in Wonderland. I found a visual feast in a land devoted to beauty, where people worship the finer things in life.

'My musings on art could be described as a benign diatribe; one inspired by a genuine if watchful passion.'

Italy was her first port of call and became her true destination.

The hilariously compelling memoir that was hailed as an instant classic.

'The first time I see drunks beat up my father I'm six and standing at the bend in the stairs. I press my face against my mother's waist but with one eye I watch as they headlock him from behind at reception because he's ordered them out of his pub.'

The award-winning sequel to the acclaimed memoir Hoi Polloi.

'The dynasty has started with my father as the founding father and me his only son, the founding son. He looks forward to the day when he can watch his grandchildren out there in the clover-covered paddocks frolicking among the cowpats. Playing with a pony, getting stung by bees. The most wholesome activities in the world.'

Vanessa Woods, Australian scientist and author, thinks she has found her true love: chimpanzees. But in a reckless moment, she accepts a marriage proposal from a man she barely knows – and agrees to join him on a research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. All she knows is that they'll be studying bonobos, an extremely endangered species of ape with whom humans share 98.7% of our DNA...

A memoir from a writer who's 'smart, hilarious, unique-just terrific' (Anne Lamott).

When Paula Butturini's husband was shot and nearly killed, it marked the abrupt end of what the couple had known together and the beginning of a phase of life neither had planned for.

A story of food and love, trauma and healing, Keeping the Feast is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MICHAEL GATES GILL SHARES 15 INSPIRING LESSONS ON FINDING TRUE HAPPINESS AT ANY AGE AND ANY STAGE OF LIFE.

'[This] fast-reading memoir whips form knowing to naïve and back as it tracks its plucky protagonist from ugly duckling school days to international adult superstardom.'
- The Dallas Morning News