Penguin Books Australia

Food in a Minute , the much-loved and well known New Zealand TV cooking show brings us their most recent cookbook - Food in a Minute: Everyday Cookbook.  

With more than 100 recipes, the book is divided into the easy-to-read sections of brunch; lunch and soups; salads and vegetables; mains; slow cooking; and desserts and baking. Each recipe has an accompanying photograph and...

THREE NEW HEROES.
ONE MISSING DEMIGOD.
A CURSE THAT THREATENS TO DESTROY THEM ALL . . .

'What do you want from me?' she screamed.
'What have you done with him?'

'Annabeth,' said the bald dude, Butch, 'we gotta leave.  Let's get these three to camp and figure it out there.  Those storm spirits might come back.'

She fumed for a moment.  'Fine.'  She fixed Jason with a resentful look. ...

'It was all so sudden. Twenty seconds and then silence. I started calling out, 'Can anyone hear me?' - nothing but silence.
Over the next few hours I heard hysterical sobbing and people clapping as others were rescued. I could hear engines, drilling and what sounded like sledgehammers . . . when the sounds went away I worried they weren't coming back.'
- Ann Bodkin, trapped for 25 hours

The Canterbury...

Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She's lost her job at New Jersey's most down-market lingerie store, her car's on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming furniture-free. Enter Cousin Vinnie, a low-life who runs a bail-bond company. If Stephanie can bring in vice cop turned outlaw Joe Morelli, she stands to pick up $10,000. But tracking down a cop wanted for murder isn't easy...

The narrator loves to stay with her grandmother in her house on Huffingup Hill. Most of all she loves Grandma's stories about Tansy Magill, a llittle red-haired girl who once also lived in this house, and who slept in the same bed under the same patchwork quilt. The story she likes to hear most of all is Grandma's tale about how Tansy Magill met Billy Higgins and became part of the Huffingup Hill Gang...

When graphic designer Vahram Muratyan began his online travel journal, Paris versus New York , he had no idea how quickly it would become one of the most buzzed-about sites on the Internet-it garnered more than a million and a half page views in just a few months, and the attention of savvy online critics. Now Muratyan presents his unique observations in this delightful book, featuring visually striking...

The  Vietnam & Angkor Wat Eyewitness Travel Guide is the perfect companion for exploring the cultural and natural richness of these beautiful places, with clear maps and up-to-date coverage of the best attractions. Discover Vietnam and Angkor Wat's highlights with this new look guide, packed with photographs and illustrations of all the best attractions. Covering everything from temples to...

'The final word on one of the most iconic weapons of our times' 
Independent on Sunday

The AK-47, or 'Kalashnikov', is the most popular weapon on earth. It never jams. It is so light and efficient a child can fire it. It is the everyman's gun, used by guerrillas, terrorists and dictators everywhere.

Featuring villains and idealists, profiteers and killers, superpowers and revolutionaries, The...

'THIS IS YOUR NEW HOME.
FORGET YOUR PAST LIVES.
ALL THAT REMAINS IS TO LEARN HOW TO FIGHT AND SURVIVE.'

ROME, 61 BC

RECRUITED as a gladiator, young Marcus Cornelius Primus faces a new life of brutal training, governed by strict rules, as he learns the skills of an elite warrior.

WHAT IF RELIGIONS ARE NEITHER ALL TRUE NOR ALL NONSENSE?

The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have some very important things to teach the secular world.