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  • Who Knew? 10,001 Household Solutions

    Money-Saving Tips, DIY Cleaners, Kitchen Secrets, and Other Easy Answers to Everyday Problems

    by Bruce Lubin, Jeanne Lubin ...
    A massive book filled with thousands of household solutions to help you start saving time and money around your house today.Looking for ways to make every day a little easier? Bruce and Jeanne Lubin, the bestselling authors, bloggers, and podcasters behind the Who Knew? brand share their top life hacks in this revised and updated edition of Who Knew? 10,001 Household Solutions. Here’s sneak peek ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD $1.99 AUD

  • The Grown Up To-Do List

    A relatable, laugh-out-loud romcom

    by Jennifer Joyce ...
    'An absolutely perfect rom-com! Laugh-out-loud funny, and packed to the brim with Jennifer Joyce's wit, humour, and warmth. I loved every second of this gorgeous book!’ Jaimie AdmansHer friends are bossing life - is she being left behind?25-year-old Cleo is happy enough. She likes her job in the fish and chip shop in the North West seaside town where she grew up. But her world has become very ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD $0.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow

    by A. J. Mackinnon ...
    A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand – a year later I had reached Romania and was still going ...Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage in a boat called Jack de Crow.Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • Flying Blind

    The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

    by Peter Robison ...
    'The astoundingly well reported and beautifully told story of the downfall of what was once a great American company. A must-read' Bethany McLean, bestselling author of The Smartest Guys in the Room'Compelling and richly reported, Flying Blind is about so much more than the sad decline of Boeing and the tragic mistakes that led to the 737 Max disaster. It's also the urgent story of how the ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • The Wide Wide Sea

    One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024

    by Hampton Sides ...
    *** BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2024 ****** One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024 ****** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ***'The story of Captain Cook’s third voyage. Extraordinarily compulsive and fascinating on every page, it combines the satisfaction of a Patrick O’Brian or CS Forester maritime blockbuster</stro... ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

  • Piece of Cake

    by Derek Robinson ...
    Series Book 1 - R.A.F. Quartet
    From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane's cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close.Newly promoted Commanding Officer Fanny Barton has a job on to whip the Hornets into shape before they face the Luftwaffe's seasoned pilots. And sometimes ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The Race to the Future

    The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century, Radio 4 Book of the Week

    by Kassia St Clair ...
    'An incredible and stirring story . . . a mix of competition, camaraderie as well as a larky sense of adventure . . . Down goes the flag. Smash goes the bottle. Shards of emerald glass and champagne spume catch the light. The race from Peking to Paris has begun' Spectator'And it's Go, Go, Go . . . A captivating history of a seemingly impossible journey and one of the most challenging endurance ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • E-Bike

    A Guide to E-Bike Models, Technology & Riding Essentials

    by Martin Haussermann ...
    E-Bike is the essential guide to this exciting technology and way of riding. From features, benefits, pros and cons, and the best ways to take advantage of motor-assisted cycling, E-Bike shows how to get the best bike for you and how your new e-bike will improve your cycling.Electric bikes are a new and fast-changing technology that’s poised to transform how Americans ride bicycles, commute to ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • The Wager

    by David Grann ...
    **THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I’ve ever read'** Guardian‘The greatest sea story ever told’ Spectator'I cannot think of anyone who would not love this book . . . It is an extraordinary true story, beautifully written' Richard Osman... ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • The Smack Track

    by Ian McPhedran ...
    From battling pirates to tracking down gun runners, drug smugglers and terrorists; the high energy exploits and explosive adventures of the Australian Navy in the Arabian Gulf.From Ian McPhedran, best-selling author of The Amazing SAS, Soldiers Without Borders and Too Bold to Die, comes the untold and largely unknown story of how the Royal Australian Navy battles pirates, gun runners and drug ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Geoffrey Guy's War

    Memoirs of a Spitfire Pilot 1941-46

    by Geoffrey Guy ...
    Geoffrey's memoir opens in May 1940, when he was eighteen years old and his grammar school in Kent was being evacuated to Staffordshire, away from the danger of German invasion. The station platform was crowded with hordes of exhausted soldiers rescued from Dunkirk, and the skies alive with the aircraft which would soon be fighting the Battle of Britain. In the autumn Geoffrey went up to Brasenose ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD

  • Servo

    Tales from the Graveyard Shift

    by David Goodwin ...
    'The descriptions are sublime . . . Goodwin's eye - sharp, unforgiving - allows nothing to escape . . . His literary promise is savage' THE AUSTRALIAN'Goodwin is a natural-born storyteller, effortlessly compelling whether he's talking about the draconian policies of his bosses, the mad ramblings of his regulars or his own forays into chemical-induced debauchery . . . However, the true secret to ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Flinders

    The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS and HUDSON FYSH

    by Grantlee Kieza ...
    The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the mapIn 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by the deprivations of years of imprisonment by the French. Four years later, at the age of just 40, he would be dead - a premature, tragic end to one of the world's greatest maritime adventurers who circumnavigated and ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD $5.99 AUD

  • Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific

    by Christina Thompson ...
    Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history‘Wonderfully researched and beautifully written’ Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan‘Succeeds in conjuring a lost world’ Dava Sobel, author of LongitudeFor more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • How to Win a Grand Prix

    From Pit Lane to Podium - the Inside Track

    by Bernie Collins ...
    'Bernie is not only a great strategist, but also a great team player and competitor' Sebastian Vettel***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***Race-winning team strategist shows how F1 really works.Welcome to Bernie Collins' world. Formula 1 drivers are the public face of Grand Prix racing but behind every driver is a team of several hundred people sharing the same passionate desire to win. On race ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Wind in The Willows (Collins Classics)

    by Kenneth Grahame ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.’A timeless and celebrated children’s classic, Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows has delighted for nearly 100 years. In the idyllic English countryside, Mole, Badger, Rat and Toad encounter adventure at every turn – ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD

  • Hudson Fysh

    The extraordinary life of the WWI hero who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings from the popular award-winning journalist and author of BANJO, BANKS and MRS KELLY

    by Grantlee Kieza ...
    The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wingsBy the critically acclaimed author of bestselling biographies of John Monash, Banjo Paterson, Joseph Banks, Lachlan Macquarie and Henry Lawson, this is a fascinating, lively and thoroughly researched portrait of a modest, resolute family man with a steady hand during turbulence ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Looking Out the Window, Talking to the Person Next to Me

    My Life in Airplanes

    by Eric Rush ...
    The author was too old to become an airline pilot when he decided to learn to fly and earn his living in airplanes, but airline deregulation opened doors for those who, because of age, imperfect vision, or lack of college degree had been considered unqualified to fly airliners. He kept a diary of his flying life from first lesson through retirement in case his grandchildren might someday wonder ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • The Mighty Krait

    by Ian McPhedran ...
    The little boat with a big past: the fight to save one of the most important artefacts of Australian military history.For many years, thousands of people have walked past an unassuming black timber fishing boat bobbing in the water down at the wharves of Sydney's Darling Harbour. But appearances can be deceptive. This humble little trawler played a key role in one of World War II's most audacious ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • How to Build High-Performance Chevy LS1/LS6 V-8s

    by Will Handzel ...
    Along with full-color photos, this book includes everything you need to know about the LS1/LS6 engine, including the difficult engine removal and installation, simple engine bolt-ons, electronic controls for the Generation III engine, and detailed engine builds at four different power levels. ... Read more

    $40.99 AUD

  • Cock o' the North

    Gresley's Bold Experiment

    by Peter Tuffrey ...
    On 22 May 1934 a zenith of locomotive construction in the UK was reached when an enormous new locomotive entered traffic for the London & North Eastern Railway Company. The impressive engine was P2 Class no. 2001 Cock o’ the North and it was painstakingly erected to the designs of eminent locomotive engineer H.N. Gresley (later Sir) at the company’s sprawling Doncaster Works. Cock o’ the North was ... Read more

    $13.86 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Batavia

    from the author of The Opera House, Ned Kelly and Mutiny on the Bounty

    by Peter Fitzsimons ...
    Batavia is the greatest story in Australia�s history. The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, ship-wreck, love, lust, blood-lust, petty fascist dictatorship, criminality, a reign of terror, murders most foul, sexual slavery, ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Sinking of HMAS Sydney

    How Australia's Greatest Maritime Mystery Was Solved

    by David L Mearns ...
    The gripping account of how Australia's greatest warship was lost and found.'We just found Sydney. We've got it. It's absolutely crystalclear. She's sitting upright in a small debris field. There's no doubt aboutit.'For sixty-six years it was Australia's greatest maritimemystery: what happened to the 'pride of the fleet' HMAS Sydney - was she beatenin a fair fight with the German cruiser Kormoran, ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • The Silent Service

    The Inside Story of the Royal Navy's Submarine Heroes

    by John Parker ...
    One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray in World War I with 100 underwater craft. Through World War II, where submariners' prospects of returning safely from a mission were only 50:50, the Falklands conflict and the sinking of the Belgrano, to present-day elite machines, the Silent Service has played an enormous ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD