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Book Cover:  Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Times

THE QUEEN'S story is our history: she was not born to be Queen but, a media star since the age of three, she has been the most famous woman in the world for all of our lives

THE QUEEN'S story is our history: she was not born to be Queen but, a media star since the age of three, she has been the most famous woman in the world for all of our lives

Published: 15/12/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670919116
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of    Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire
By Leslie Carroll

A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty 900-year history of the royal marriages of Europe's most famous-and infamous-monarchs.

A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty 900-year history of the royal marriages of Europe's most famous-and infamous-monarchs.

Published: 09/04/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451229014
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Bright Young Royals
By Jerramy Fine

More than ever before, nightclubs and ski slopes are teeming with a new generation of hip young royals—many of them single and looking for love. Packed with full-color photographs and page after page of gorgeous profiles, Bright Young Royals is the glamorous, must-have guide to the smartest, best-looking crowd the world's monarchies have ever produced. Find out where they work, where they play...

More than ever before, nightclubs and ski slopes are teeming with a new generation of hip young royals—many of them single and looking for love. Packed with full-color photographs and page after...

Published: 07/12/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425246870
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  George VI
By Sarah Bradford

'Triumphantly successful'
Sunday Times

'Vivid, thorough and enjoyable'
Independent

'If the 'Greatness' of a king can be measured by the extent to which his qualities corresponded to the needs of a nation at a given moment in history, then George VI was a great king, and perhaps a very great king'
Massigli, French Ambassador, 1952






'Triumphantly successful'
Sunday Times

'Vivid, thorough and enjoyable'
Independent

'If the 'Greatness' of a king can be measured by the extent to which his qualities corresponded to the needs of a nation...



Published: 19/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241956090
RRP: $24.00
Book Cover:  Kings and Queens of England and Scotland
By Dorling Kindersley

Don't know your Albert from your Ethelred? Which Henry had six wives, and which was crowned at eight years old? Kings & Queens of England and Scotland is the essential guide that will help you sort your Tudors from your Stuarts, and discover how each monarch helped to shape the country we live in today. Easy to read biographies of each sovereign highlight key dates and achievements and family trees...

Don't know your Albert from your Ethelred? Which Henry had six wives, and which was crowned at eight years old? Kings & Queens of England and Scotland is the essential guide that will help you sort...

Published: 02/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405373678
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Elizabeth the Queen
By Smith Sally Bedell

The real woman behind our throne, her life and loves

As we celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, this brand new biography of Queen Elizabeth II is the first all-round, up-close picture of one of the most fascinating, enigmatic and admired women in the world.


The real woman behind our throne, her life and loves

As we celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, this brand new biography of Queen Elizabeth II is the first all-round, up-close picture of one of the most fascinating...

Published: 19/03/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718158651
RRP: $19.95

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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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