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Sara hates bad-luck Tuesdays! She writes a secret diary to lift the jinx. Sara Swan's family has settled the problem of moving house (they are NOT moving!). But now her father is going through a mid-life crisis and leaves home on a Tuesday. And speaking of Tuesdays, Sara discovers that Tuesdays...

Three major stress factors... a marriage break-up, moving house, loss of income for the family, and a new school. Link James and his sister Claire get the lot! How does a boy from the wealthy side of town cope with the tough guys at Westlands? How does the bad boy tag his father gave him influence...

Lifes greatest challenges come from within. At 47, Jonathan Brewster finally feels like he's king of the world - he has a lucrative job, a happy marriage, two children in private schools, an impressive house and a flashy car. He's also hugely in debt, but that's never really bothered him -...

After Maggie Mackellar's acclaimed When It Rains, her second memoir traces with her characteristic candour and perception her move to Tasmania, for love, and the struggles and joys of settling there. In 2011 Maggie Mackellar moved from her family's farm in Central West New South Wales to the...

The Penguin Guide to Retirement Hotspots is a one-stop guide to the 100 best places to retire in Australia and New Zealand. From Hobart to Hervey Bay, Carnarvon to Christchurch, this practical guide captures the pros and cons of each location as a retirement choice, and covers: Climate Transport options...

Your guide to bonding with your baby, breastfeeding and the toddler years. 'I'm calling on the mums (and dads) of the world to join the movement to a wiser, more attached and connected style of parenting - because I think you've drawn the short straw. Parenting was never meant to be so difficult,...

Most people don't like being different. They want exactly the same things as their neighbours, only bigger and more of them. Yet no matter how much they have, they always feel there is something missing. The Smiths are not like other people. They might not be any good at cooking, or housework, or...

A deserted mansion. Empty picture frames. A perfect red rose in a snowy garden. There is rich and powerful magic here, and a mystery to unravel . . . When Natasha is forced to take shelter from a sudden, terrible blizzard, she is lucky to see a mansion looming out of the snow. Inside it's beautiful:...

Change is in the air in Penberthy Floss! Clementine Rose has to say goodbye. Her friends, Sophie and Jules, are moving back to France. While she is sad to see them go, Sophie has promised they will come back. Plus, Clementine will now have an overseas pen pal! At school and home, things...

Clementine Rose is bursting with plans for the school holidays! But with the announcement that a new cooking show will be filmed in the village, everything changes. While Clementine is disappointed that her activities have been cancelled, she soon has an idea and takes to the kitchen in a baking frenzy....

Feel that War and Peace went on a bit? Wish there were more laughs in Catcher in the Rye? Then A Selection of Smithereens is for you. These pieces from one of Australia's funniest men (no, not John Clarke) feature the Borgias, Winston Churchill and the history behind cornflakes - and so much more! Fresh...

One of our finest writers on one of our most dramatic stories. Mining divides the country - development against conservation, north and west against south and east, pro-tax against anti-tax. It's an important industry, but why do passions run so high? What does mining really mean to us? And how much...

Grief, loss and guilt are enormous burdens for a whole family to carry. A tern will fly to the moon, to live its life in summer . I suppose I'd like to have a little bit of that. It's boom time in sixteen-year-old Kenno's coastal holiday town. Tourists are buying and building and developing...

The book that launched campaigns, featuring a new 2013 introduction from Margo Kingston. After the bestselling Not Happy, John! was published in 2004, we had three more years of: secrecy, cover-ups and scandals - think AWB laws like WorkChoices eroding people's prosperity, an unpopular and...