But her sentence was commuted, and she was transported to Australia, one of the first convicts to arrive there.How Mary escaped the harsh existence of the colony and found true love, and how she was captured and taken back to London in chains, only to be released after a trial where she was defended by no less than James Boswell, is one of the most gripping and moving stories of human endeavour (based on an amazing true story) you will ever read

    The warm, loving home he shares with his father, grandmother and five big sisters (The Rainbow Girls) is marked by the aching absence of his mother and baby sister. Where have they gone and will they be coming home again? When Griffin starts school and meets Princess Layla the answers to his questions gently start to unfold.This unique, tender novel will captivate young readers and adults alike, with its warmth, honesty and beauty.

    Celebrated as a novelist in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, Elliot Perlman writes of impulse and paralysis, empty marriages, lovers, gambling, and the stock market; of adult children and their parents; of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law. Comic, poetic, and full of satiric insight, Seven Types of Ambiguity is, above all, a deeply romantic novel that speaks with unforgettable force about the redemptive power of love.The story is told in seven parts, by six different narrators, whose lives are entangled in unexpected ways. Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands, triggering a chain of events that neither he nor his psychiatrist could have anticipated. Brimming with emotional, intellectual, and moral dilemmas, this novel-reminiscent of the richest fiction of the nineteenth century in its labyrinthine complexity-unfolds at a rapid-fire pace to reveal the full extent to which these people have been affected by one another and by the insecure and uncertain times in which they live. Our times, now.

    New information about the ways the Howard government manipulated the situation for its own gain is included.

    a page turner from start to finish' - Maeve BinchyAlexander Kinross is remembered in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice. But when he writes from Australia to summon his bride, his relatives realize he is now a man to be reckoned with. Arriving in Sydney after a difficult voyage, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Drummond meets her husband-to-be and discovers that he frightens and repels her. And, isolated in Alexander's great house, Elizabeth finds that marriage does not prompt her husband to enlighten her about his past life - nor his present one, in which his mistress, the sensuous, tough, outspoken Ruby Costevan, still plays a part...

    Mary is the first convict married in Australia, Mary learns from aboriginal friends how to survive. Eventually, she and her husband Will escape. Her daring run up the coast and all the way to Timor is yet unequaled for traveling in an open boat 3,000 miles without navigational equipment. Mary's capture, return to England and the trial that determines whether she will live or die -- all this is compelling reading. Her lawyer is none other than James Boswell and this too is a fascinating complement to a page-turning saga.

    His story is one of humanity overcoming adversity. McCartney is a normal young Australian, who happened to have an exceptional talent to play Australian Football. He was thrust into the hearts and minds of all Australians through his courageous fightback from horrible burns to 50 per cent of his body. His story is told in a matter-of-fact way, but is full of the spirit that saw him not only survive, but make a comeback to the AFL. He has become a true representative of Australian courage.

    At once fable and history, it takes the reader on a journey which ranges from Kobe to Paris, from Vilna and back to Melbourne.

    She could never have anticipated the subsequent devastation. The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide is an astonishing account of one woman's experience of love and loss. Gambotto-Burke's insight and compassion are startling; her ability to make sense of suicide, revolutionary. Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is, she writes, the ultimate debate of moral entitlement. She explains the premise of suicide and how it pivots on a fatal logical flaw. Presenting an eloquent case against our understanding of depression and bereavement, she poses a profound question: If death is a process and not a state, how does that change the experience of grief? Arguably the most important memoir ever written about loss, The Eclipse hypnotizes the reader from the outset. Gambotto-Burke's life has been saturated by death. The first boy who proposed to her shot himself in the head at the age of sixteen. Michael VerMeulen, her great love and the legendary American editor of British GQ, overdosed on cocaine at the age of 38. And then her baby brother, gone. Grief is, she writes, something like coals to be walked upon.

    Spirit of the Wild Dog: The World of Wolves, Coyotes, Foxes, Jackals, and Dingoes is a scientific look into the lives of wild dogs around the world.

    Diagnosed in 1984, Menadue is a journalist and AIDS activist. His memoir offers both a personal account and a chronicle of an era.

    This topical, not-for-profit publication provides a rare glimpse into the world of refugees who have fled war and persecution in their own countries, only to be detained in Australia's desert camps. Featuring an introduction by human rights activist and QC Julian Burnside; this moving anthology presents edited extracts from letters written by asylum seekers in response to a letter-writing campaign by Australian citizens opposing the Australian government's hard-line stance on asylum seekers. These letters give a human face and voice to one of the most controversial issues affecting the world today. All profits will be donated to asylum seeker organisations.

    What happened to the once proudly proclaimed equality of opportunity for Australian women? Why do so many in the first decade of the 21st century feel exhausted and trapped, discouraged and disheartened? The author confronts these questions and her conclusions are alarming, even shocking.

    Simple, clear design links text and paintings; unique system of organisation of information; includes breeding section; and maps define variances in ranges and subspecies. It covers 850 species; includes breeding section; 3500 paintings and 800 maps.Librarian's Note: This is a paperback edition of the book that shares an ISBN with the hardcover (ISBN 13: 9781740214179)

    Isolated from the rest of world for a staggering 45 million years, this enormous island contains a breathtaking array of distinctive and bizarre species 90 per cent of its reptiles and 70 per cent of its birds are unique to Australia and where else can you find wombats and wallabies, kookaburras and koalas? There are mammals that can lay eggs, huge birds that cant fly, marsupials that can, and a greater concentration of deadly reptiles and venomous snakes than anywhere else. The landscape, too, looks remarkably different: this is the flattest and driest inhabited continent on earth, with some of the oldest rocks and dramatic, time-worn landscapes. The surrounding seas contain dazzlingly colourful reefs and are dotted with a fabulous string of islands, stretching from the equator to the sub-Antarctic to form the larger region known as Australasia. Wild Down Under reveals how this ancient land of contrasts was created and explores its unique landscapes and wildlife, and the impact of human settlement. Published to accompany a landmark six-part television programme, this lavishly illustrated book, with over 200 stunning full-colour photographs, celebrates the natural history of this spectacular continent.

    More than 3300 species of wild plants survive, and mostly flourish, in our backyards, city parks and remaining bushland.Our wild plants are the green thread that binds us to the natural world across thousands of years of human history. They provided Aboriginal Australians and European settlers with food, shelter and raw materials. Today, they soften the outline of the city's built environment and stimulate our senses with an endless variety of colour, shape and form.More than 500 species of our most familiar wild plants, and a few that are less well known, are featured in over 1100 colour photographs; along with brief, easy-to-read, descriptions of the plants and their habitats. This book is an essential companion to the best-selling Wildlife of Greater Brisbane, Wild Places of Greater Brisbane and Wild Guide to Moreton Bay.Published by the Queensland Museum in partnership with the Brisbane City Council and with generous assistance of the Queensland Herbarium and Greening Australia.

    This title focuses on the changes to NSW criminal laws after these murders.16 b&w photos

    Dig deeper into his contentions with the information inside this invaluable reader's handbook:Why did Europe colonize Africa and Asia rather than the other way around?Why is geography the most important factor in human history?How has the rest of the scientific community received Diamond's theory?

    But was it a savage sheep killer or a shy, fussy, nocturnal feeder? And did it really drink its victims' blood? Once reviled, feared and slaughtered by government decree, the myth of the Tasmanian Tiger continues to grow. So treasured is it now, the Tasmanian Tiger has become the official logo of the island that wiped it out and a symbol of the conservation movement world-wide.A number of Australian species have miraculously reappeared after being labelled as extinct. Perhaps the Tiger is still with us. And if it's not, can it be brought back by cloning?

    This is an accessible identification guide to reptiles, including: crocodiles, sea turtles, freshwater turtles, geckos, flat-footed lizards, skinks, dragons, goannas, blind snakes, pythons, file snakes, colubrid snakes, terrestrial elapids, sea snakes and sea kraits.

    That's because Lucy lives next door to the zoo! Every night, she climbs down the long neck of Georgina the Giraffe and listens to one of them tell her a story. Joey is a little kangaroo who lives in Australia. But Joey has problems doing the one thing all kangaroos are famous for—jumping! Will he learn to jump like a real kangaroo before the Junior Jump Competition? His friends tease him and his parents can't believe it, but then Ribit the Frog gives him some advice and lends him some magic jumping boots. Soon Joey can jump taller and higher than all the others—but will they let him enter the competition with boots on?

    At the height of the hype, in November 1999, One.Tel was worth more than $5 billion, almost as much as Kerry Packer's entire empire. Its founder, Jodee Rich, was worth close to $2 billion, with two houses, a jet, a helicopter, three powerboats and a private resort in the WhitSundays. Less than 18 months later the 'fun and friendly' phone company was gone, the Packers and Murdochs had lost nearly $1 billion, and Jodee Rich was being investigated by Australia's corporate cops. Rich Kids is the inside story of One.Tel's meteoric rise and fall, told by award-winning investigative journalist Paul Barry. It's a tale of chaos, incompetence, greed and deceit; of an era when huge fortunes were made in the crazy dot-com boom; and of James Packer's and Lachlan Murdoch's business brilliance - or lack of it. Above all, Rich Kids is the story of One.Man. Jodee Rich dragged millions of dollars from the wreckage of his first corporate disaster in the 1980s, then seduced Australia's two most powerful families to back him in One.Tel ? and did it all over again. Getting closer to the publicity-shy Rich than anyone else has ever been able, Paul Barry delivers an explosive and entertaining account of one of Australia's biggest corporate disasters.

    Represented in this global selection are poets from ancient China (translated by Ezra Pound), Egyptian inscriptions, the logs of Captain Cook, and the chilling fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe, as well as the lore of native peoples from around the world. Also included are writings from many genres by, among others, Herodotus, Marco Polo, Shelley, Twain, Saint-Exupery, T E Lawrence, Chatwin, and Borges.

    This authoritative reference work is the essential guide to Australia's unique and fascinating trees. It features more than 325 species from all parts of the continent. Each tree is beautifully illustrated and described in detail in clear, concise language and there are distribution maps for every species. To make identification fast and simple, there is also a unique, easy-to-use visual key

    Gianfranco Cresciani's authoritative account of their significant contributions to the development of Australian society through the twentieth century is comprehensive. As an authority on Italian life in Australia, Cresciani provides a definitive account of the Italo-Australian community entering the twenty-first century.

    Evocatively describing the experiences of emigrants in steerage on their passage to Australia, and of those charged with their care, we  hear from the migrant's letters and diaries as they write about everyday life on board and their hopes for the future, as they weep over children buried at sea.

    50 ballads of the bushland of Australia

    Although changes have been made since 2000, the issues identified in this book remain current and to a large extent unresolved.

    These first-hand accounts describe the harrowing events that led them to flee their countries and their experience of the Australian detention system and the impact it has had on their physical and emotional wellbeing. Asylum also deals with Australia's perception of asylum seekers, how the media perceives them, why the issue has polarised a nation, and how the protest against the treatment of asylum seekers has exploded over the past twelve months.

    The victim of a restlessness he calls -Shanghai Dancing, - Antonio seeks to understand the source of his condition in his family's wanderings. Reversing his parents' own migration, Antonio heads back to their native Shanghai, where his world begins to fragment as his ancestry starts to flood into his present, and emissaries of glittering pre-war China, evangelical Liverpool and seventeenth-century Portugal merge into contemporary backdrops across Asia, Europe and Australia. A -fictional autobiography, - Shanghai Dancing is a dazzling meditation on identity, language and disorientation that combines photographs and written images in the style of W.G. Sebald. The Age has described the book as -an extraordinary polyglot mix of sources: Portuguese, Chinese, English, Jewish and Catholic, and a mysterious recessive black gene... told in Castro's characteristically baroque prose, dense with its passion for language and serious wordplay.- The winner of some of Australia's top literary prizes, Shanghai Dancing has been praised by its judges as -a work of major significance [that] challenges our expectations of storytelling... It is impressive as history, as fiction, as a book which stretches the literary form and which speaks to the universality of the human experience.- Shanghai Dancing marks the U.S. debut of a major Australian literary figure.

    

    It is an honest, frank account of a politician's career with all its ups and downs, spiced with Carr's own humor, opinions and frank discourse with his State and Federal colleagues.

    The authors anecdotes, amusing and sad, are full of vivid detail and exude the love she felt for the rough landscape and the hardworking people who live there.

    Relentlessly hostile, unwaveringly accurate, he had the perfect combination of skill and a true fast bowler's temperament. On quick pitches he was almost unplayable, and many, like Garry Sobers, reckon he was the quickest of all time. In his fascinating autobiography, he recalls the great matches and the great characters he played with and against, such as Jeff Thomson, the Chappells and Rodney Marsh. Now a highly respected coach, he analyses the strengths and weaknesses of top players, and explains the techniques that made him so successful. Above all, he will be remembered in the UK for awesome demolition of England's batting line-ups over a period of years.