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Book Cover:  Australian Green Home & Garden
By Robin Stewart
Australian Green Home & Garden introduces green alternatives, solutions to everyday household tasks that are effective, inexpensive and easy to apply. Learn how to protect yourself, your family and our fragile environment by taking the clean and green approach to modern living.
Australian Green Home & Garden introduces green alternatives, solutions to everyday household tasks that are effective, inexpensive and easy to apply. Learn how to protect yourself, your family and...
Published: 01/09/2003
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863953238
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Practical Self Sufficiency: An Australian Guide To Sustainable Living
By Dick Strawbridge & James
Practical guidance for making simple changes to your life that will reduce your impact on the planet.
Practical guidance for making simple changes to your life that will reduce your impact on the planet.
Published: 28/02/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781740337700
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  Organic Home: The Australian Guide to Clean, Green Living
By Rosamond Richardson
In The Organic Home , highly acclaimed author Rosamond Richardson challenges the accepted methods of running a home, offering hundreds of tried-and-tested techniques that are not only safe and gentle, but also deliver on performance, are simple to implement, and affordable. Many are just a matter of common sense not letting the water run while cleaning your teeth, for example and cost nothing.
In The Organic Home , highly acclaimed author Rosamond Richardson challenges the accepted methods of running a home, offering hundreds of tried-and-tested techniques that are not only safe and gentle...
Published: 03/04/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781740334976
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Decluttering
By Regina Leeds
Whether you live in a 20-room mansion or a one room apartment, drive an SUV or a MiniCooper – the stuff we have builds up into an endless stream of clutter. Most people just live with it, pushing it aside in closets or in garages and letting it pile up. But what happens when it gets so bad that it takes over your living space and there's no room for the stuff you really want?

Renowned organizing...

Whether you live in a 20-room mansion or a one room apartment, drive an SUV or a MiniCooper – the stuff we have builds up into an endless stream of clutter. Most people just live with it, pushing...
Published: 14/06/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781592576289
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Toxic Free
By Debra Lynn Dadd

Today, there is no longer any question that toxic chemicals in consumer products are harming our families.  But how do we protect ourselves, and where do we start?  In Toxic Free , Debra Lynn Dadd, who has been hailed by The New York Times as the 'Queen of Green,' discusses in easy-to-understand language the hidden toxic chemicals that are already in our homes, their varying degrees of danger...

Today, there is no longer any question that toxic chemicals in consumer products are harming our families.  But how do we protect ourselves, and where do we start?  In Toxic Free , Debra Lynn...

Published: 07/12/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781585428700
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Unstuff Your Life!: Kick the Clutter Habit & Completely Transform Your Life for Good
By Andrew J Mellen

One of the country's most sought-after professional organizers makes his foolproof rescue plan available for everyone

One of the country's most sought-after professional organizers makes his foolproof rescue plan available for everyone

Published: 07/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781583333891
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Express Housekeeping
By Dorling Kindersley

The indispensible guide to having a clean, well-organised home with minimum effort and fuss.

Express Housekeeping is about getting the job done quickly, with plenty of pictures that show it all. Well-thought-out plans set out how to blitz every type of room, whether it's the kitchen, bathroom or bedroom, in prescribed time slots. Cleaning Kit spreads will show you how to put together an essential kit...

The indispensible guide to having a clean, well-organised home with minimum effort and fuss.

Express Housekeeping is about getting the job done quickly, with plenty of pictures that show it all. Well-thought-out...

Published: 28/02/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405363075
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Concise Guide to Self Sufficiency
By John Seymour
The concise version of Seymour's visionary classic is a key reference title for living off the land, and an excellent starting point for anyone aiming to change to a more sustainable lifestyle. Packed with practical information and invaluable advice from the man who spent most of his life living the dream of self-sufficiency.

This handbook teaches the full range of crafts and skills necessary to producing...

The concise version of Seymour's visionary classic is a key reference title for living off the land, and an excellent starting point for anyone aiming to change to a more sustainable lifestyle. Packed...
Published: 30/07/2007
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405320207
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Domestic Goddess on a Budget: How to Save Money and Time
By Wendyl Nissen

Ever thought of cleaning your toilet with nothing but baking soda and vinegar?  Making fly spray out of black tea?  Or painting your nails with henna?

Writer, broadcaster, wife, mum and grandma Wendyl Nissen knows just how difficult it is to juggle family and career, while saving the planet and living within your means.  After lots of research and trial and error, Wendyl has compiled...

Ever thought of cleaning your toilet with nothing but baking soda and vinegar?  Making fly spray out of black tea?  Or painting your nails with henna?

Writer, broadcaster, wife, mum and grandma...

Published: 01/06/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143011859
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Composting: A Down-to-Earth, Water-Wise Guide

Save water and help save the planet, all from the comfort of your own home!

These days everyone is looking for ways to send less household rubbish to landfill, to use less water and, of course, to save money.   Composting is a great solution!   And anyone can make compost – even of you live in an inner-city apartment you can create a super-efficient natural soil conditioner for you...

Save water and help save the planet, all from the comfort of your own home!

These days everyone is looking for ways to send less household rubbish to landfill, to use less water and, of course, to save...

Published: 02/03/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143011057
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Composting: Penguin Mini
In today's society, where almost everything is designed to be thrown away, waste disposal has become a big issue. Composting is one easy way that anybody can help reduce their personal impact on the environment. Composting not only reduces the amount of waste being added to landfill, but also provides gardeners with an excellent way to nourish and fertilise their soil.

The mini guide to Composting...

In today's society, where almost everything is designed to be thrown away, waste disposal has become a big issue. Composting is one easy way that anybody can help reduce their personal impact on the environment...
Published: 29/08/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143003953
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Cleaning Bible: Kim and Aggie's Complete Guide to Modern Household Management
By Kim Woodburn & Aggie MacKenzie
You watched the TV programme and you bought the book but is your house still a bit dull round the edges? It is time to get Kim and Aggie round to do the spring cleaning – their ultimate Cleaning Bible is the only helping hand you need for all tasks of a domestic nature. Every tip and trick from their combined cleaning experience of about half a century is included, and they always use natural...
You watched the TV programme and you bought the book but is your house still a bit dull round the edges? It is time to get Kim and Aggie round to do the spring cleaning – their ultimate Cleaning...
Published: 19/06/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141027005
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Penguin Book of Keeping House
Published: 04/06/2007
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742280493
Book Cover: The Penguin Book of Keeping House
If you have ever wondered how to fit out your living room without breaking the bank allow light in but block nosey neighbours out wash a feather-filled doona keep your bathroom sparkling, without chemicals get your wardrobe under control make your home safe for toddlers help your pot plants to flourish this is the book for you.

Keeping house is an art that many of us have lost. Our schedules are so...

If you have ever wondered how to fit out your living room without breaking the bank allow light in but block nosey neighbours out wash a feather-filled doona keep your bathroom sparkling, without chemicals...
Published: 04/06/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143001706
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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