The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse

Geoffrey Bownas, Anthony Thwaite and Geoffrey Bownas

Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clich s of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic c...

Cellar Bar

Guy Grossi

The Cellar Bar, a Melbourne institution since the 1950s, has always been synonymous with Italian dining. The place where many had their first mouthful of spaghetti bolognese, it's long been the meeting point for Melbourne society and one of the reasons dining out has woven itself into the fabric of this...

Run Rose Run

Dolly Parton; James Patterson

Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy her. Run, Rose, Run is a novel glittering...

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif...

Vinland Saga 13

Makoto Yukimura

One of the greatest European historical epic comics ever written continues.A DREAM COMES ASHOREThorfinn's travels have taken him from Iceland to England, Denmark, the distant trading posts of the Byzantine Empire, and back home again. On the journey, he has amassed scars, losses, and sins to atone for, ...

Till Death, or a Little Light Maiming, Do Us Part

Kathy Lette

A terrific, raunchy romp with heart! Just what we need right now.Magda SzubanskiWhen Jason Riley goes missing, feared killed by a shark, his family - make that families - have many questions.Hearing a news report that a man on his morning swim has been taken by a Great White, teacher Gwen races to the b...