'John Connolly is such a brilliant author, I recommend any of his stuff' Richard Osman on The Rest is Entertainment'[An] absolute corker from Ireland's best mystery writer ... utterly gripping' ExpressThe players call it The Game. There are just two rules:No killing close to home.No Killing outside the gameBut what happens when those rules get broken?When the drowned body of a troubled ...

What's behind One Nation's surge?The rise of the new right in Australia isn't a sudden eruption. In this brilliant essay, John Birmingham gives us the deep history and the present moment. Using personal stories, insights from political insiders and overarching analysis, he shows how the right has found a story to explain everything. Simple, visceral, wrong in all sorts of ways, but coherent.Birmingham charts the political earthquake as One Nation shatters the Liberal Part...

One-Minute Adjustments, Life-Changing ImpactsThe simplest way to change any aspect of your life isn’t through massive overhauls or heroic bursts of effort. It’s through something far smaller—and far more powerful: one minute adjustments.In One Minute, bestselling author John Strelecky reveals a deceptively simple, profoundly effective method for transforming any area of your life—by gently guiding it in the new direction, just one minute per day.

What if the blueprint for your life is hidden in the moments you least expect? Do you ever wonder if you're missing your true calling?John Burke, bestselling author of Imagine Heaven and Imagine the God of Heaven, offers a groundbreaking exploration into the soul's most pressing questions: Why am I here? Does my life uniquely matter? If so, how do I fulfill my purpose?Drawing on forty years of biblical study and research into more...

Niska: Being sold to aliens on the seedy lower-levels of a space-station is about as terrifying as you would imagine. So when I get presented with the opportunity to save myself and my friends from the countless fate-worse-than-death scenarios that play out here at this end of the galaxy, I take it.Even if it means agreeing to being strapped to a breeding bench for a huge, horned alien prince.At least this way I know what I'm in for; a few months of sleepin...

When two runaway twin girls wander into my gallery, the last thing I expect is their brooding, bossy dad storming in after them.I’m struck by his sexy, good looks.I swoon at the way he scolds his naughty daughters, all protective yet tender.But I’ve been down this road before. Older man. Control issues. Heartbreak. Never again.Still, there’s something about Noah that pulls me in. He’s all seriousness and structure. I’m color and chaos.We shouldn’t wo...

A fairytale Christmas setting with childhood friends thrown together at every turn. What could go wrong?Joshua Fielding is looking forward to a quiet Christmas-tide, something he has desperately missed during his time with the army. His loud, boisterous family celebrate the festivities in a manner far different from that of his aristocratic colleagues. It promises to be all he has hoped until a name from the past comes back to haunt him. His childhood nemesis: Barn...

A remarkable new account of Australia's colonial beginningsThis fascinating book sets aside the cliches of Australian history and asks us to look again.What really happened when exiled criminals made a home in an occupied and defended country? How were they changed by this new world? What can the first years of settlement tell us about Australia today?The First Fleet left Britain at the height of the enclosure movement, when traditional rights to communal land were ...

Something Old. Something New. We got drunk and said, "I do."Okay, listen. It's not like I woke up in Napa Valley with marriage on the brain. It was a series of unfortunate events that resulted in Layken Hobbs in my living room wearing my team hoodie and a pair of my pajama pants.And well, it just so happens, I'm a sucker for pajama pants. And apparently the girl wearing them.Needing to get her mind off of life for a few days, the team and w...

The standard economics textbook for more than a generation, John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy (1848) was really as much a synthesis of his predecessors' ideas as it was an original economic treatise. Heavily influenced by the work of David Ricardo, and also taking ideas from Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, Mill systematically demonstrated how important economic concepts could be applied to real-world situations. In his emphasis on realism, Mill thus took economics out of th...

In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Anguished English, Common Phrases is a fascinating guide to the origins of our language. Wonderful stories reveal the real meaning of Adam’s apple, nick of time, stool pigeon, armed to the teeth, raining cats and dogs, at sixes and sevens, dog days of summer, and scores of others. With nearly 35,000 copies sold, this classic begins a new life with a fresh package and a new audience for entertaining reference books.

Metaphysics is the study of existence at the highest level of generality. It is traditionally characterised as the study of "being qua being" - of being in general rather than specifically of this or that sort. Accordingly, the salient task of the field is to achieve a clearer understanding of the concepts and principles of being, existence, and reality. As such, metaphysics has been an established sector of philosophy since the time of Aristotle's initial systematisation of the subject in...