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Book Cover:  Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir
Complemented by the breathtaking photographs of Narelle Autio, Land's Edge is a celebration of the coastal life and those who surrender themselves to it.
Complemented by the breathtaking photographs of Narelle Autio, Land's Edge is a celebration of the coastal life and those who surrender themselves to it.
Published: 22/11/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781926428284
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  After Romulus
By Raimond Gaita

In 1998, Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father was first published—the story of his father who came to Australia from Europe with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son after the end of the Second World War. In the isolated landscape of country Victoria, Christine succumbed to mental illness, and a series of tragedies befell the family.
Described as 'a profound meditation on love and...

In 1998, Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father was first published—the story of his father who came to Australia from Europe with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son after the end of...

Published: 29/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758782
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Kayang & Me
By Kim Scott & Hazel Brown

Award-winning novelist Kim Scott and his elder, Hazel Brown, have created a monumental family history of the Wilomin Noongar people.  Kayang & Me is a powerful story of community and belonging, revealing the deep and enduring connections between family, country, culture and history that lie at the heart of Indigenous identity.

Award-winning novelist Kim Scott and his elder, Hazel Brown, have created a monumental family history of the Wilomin Noongar people.  Kayang & Me is a powerful story of community and belonging...

Published: 12/05/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781920731175
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Roundabout at Bangalow: An Intimate Chronicle
By Shirley Walker
Written with passion and style, this is both a social history and an intensely personal account of growing up in Australia. Shirley Walker celebrates the sensual sights and perfumes of the northern NSW landscape, and the punishing splendour of Queensland's Burdekin region.

These extraordinary stories of the pioneering struggles and deep religious conflicts in four generations of Walker's family show...

Written with passion and style, this is both a social history and an intensely personal account of growing up in Australia. Shirley Walker celebrates the sensual sights and perfumes of the northern NSW...
Published: 03/03/2003
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702233678
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Goodbye to All That
By Robert Graves

'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses . . .'

'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing...

Published: 13/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241951415
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Out of Africa

'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.'

From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm, and her...

'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.'

From the moment Karen...

Published: 13/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241951439
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  My Family and Other Animals
By Gerald Durrell

'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine . . . a country where we can grow.'
'Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening.
'I had a letter from George this morning – he says Corfu's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go to Greece?'
'Very well, dear, if you like,' said Mother unguardedly.



'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine . . . a country where we can grow.'
'Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening.
'I had a letter from George this morning – he...

Published: 13/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241951460
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Navigation: A Memoir

In the world of New Zealand children's books, the name Joy Cowley engenders enormous respect and affection.

 She has published dozens and dozens of children's trade books of all kinds, such as the Mrs Wishy Washy series, the award-winning Shadrach trilogy and Hunter . And she has written literally hundreds of readers for the international educational book market. She is constantly in demand as...

In the world of New Zealand children's books, the name Joy Cowley engenders enormous respect and affection.

 She has published dozens and dozens of children's trade books of all kinds, such as the...

Published: 27/09/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143205715
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Autobiographical Writings
By Mark Twain

A must-have for all lovers of Mark Twain, this selection of his autobiographical writings opens a rare window onto the writer's life, particularly his early years. Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Samuel Langhorne Clemens first used the pseudonym Mark Twain while a journalist in Nevada in 1863. When his first major book, The Innocents Abroad , appeared six years later, he began what...

A must-have for all lovers of Mark Twain, this selection of his autobiographical writings opens a rare window onto the writer's life, particularly his early years. Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida...

Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143106678
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
By Evelyn Waugh & Nancy Mitford

With an Introduction by Charlotte Mosley

'Their correspondence can make you rock with helpless laughter'
Independent on Sunday



With an Introduction by Charlotte Mosley

'Their correspondence can make you rock with helpless laughter'
Independent on Sunday



Published: 12/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141193922
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: A Voyage Round My Father
By John Mortimer

'Generous and humane . . . Mortimer's fond tribute to his father could hardly be a finer tribute to himself'
Guardian

'Generous and humane . . . Mortimer's fond tribute to his father could hardly be a finer tribute to himself'
Guardian

Published: 10/12/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141193410
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  A Life in Letters
By George Orwell

Edited with an Introduction by Peter Davison

'Arguably the most influential writer thrown up by the West in the twentieth century … the real Orwell — whoever he is — continues to take shape'
The Times

Edited with an Introduction by Peter Davison

'Arguably the most influential writer thrown up by the West in the twentieth century … the real Orwell — whoever he is — continues to take...

Published: 13/04/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141192635
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy

'I think our life here has meaning only when we live in accordance with the commandment to love one another'

'I think our life here has meaning only when we live in accordance with the commandment to love one another'

Published: 27/11/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141191195
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Waugh in Abyssinia
By Evelyn Waugh
In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent rubbing shoulders with less-than-honest officials, Arab spies, pyjama-wearing radicals and disgruntled...
In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled...
Published: 12/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141185057
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Goodbye To All That: Popular Penguins

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War.

Containing memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, Goodbye to All That , is a classic war document, and also has immense value as...

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days, to his...

Published: 29/06/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141045542
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: A Little Learning: An Autobiography
By Evelyn Waugh

'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius. Save for a few pale shadows, his childhood was warm, bright and serene. The Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed were...

'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric...

Published: 12/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140183092
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Goodbye Soldier
By Spike Milligan

A LITTLE KNOWN HISTORIAL FACT:


A LITTLE KNOWN HISTORIAL FACT:


Published: 09/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140103380
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Saul Bellow: Letters
By Benjamin Taylor

THE LIFE OF A MASTER, TOLD IN LETTERS

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book awards, and the Nobel Prize in Literature, Saul Bellow wrote marvellously acute, unsparing, tender, ferocious, hilarious, and wise letter throughout his long life (1915-2005).



THE LIFE OF A MASTER, TOLD IN LETTERS

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book awards, and the Nobel Prize in Literature, Saul Bellow wrote marvellously acute, unsparing, tender, ferocious, hilarious...

Published: 15/12/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670022212
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  Clinging to the Wreckage
By John Mortimer

With a new introduction by Valerie Grove

'A true masterpiece of the genre'
The Times



With a new introduction by Valerie Grove

'A true masterpiece of the genre'
The Times



Published: 13/12/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141193847
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Hermit in Paris
By Italo Calvino

With a Preface by
Esther Calvino

'These pages are distinguished by a sly philosophic humour . . .  a sensuous immediacy of detail and a droll wit'
Guardian

With a Preface by
Esther Calvino

'These pages are distinguished by a sly philosophic humour . . .  a sensuous immediacy of detail and a droll wit'
Guardian

Published: 07/03/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141189758
RRP: $24.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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