Penguin Random House Australia: 1771 books

A few days before the terrorist attacks in Paris, a car bomb exploded in Beirut killing dozens. Though this may happen on the other side of the world, deep divisions occur that are exploited here for political expediency. Strangers are no longer people reading quietly on the bus, but potential threats....

Cooking is, for many Australians, a chore. And it's now easier than ever to order takeaway, eat out at an affordable restaurant or buy pre-prepared food. In such an environment, what incentives are there for us to cook meals that get people around the table? Rebecca Huntley, determined to answer...

While society generally espouses the value of logic and certainty, we grow because we doubt. Humans have not spent millennia traversing oceans and experimenting with explosives because of confidence in their beliefs. Culture and science are rooted in unknowns, and when we accept doubt we are more...

In Salad Days, Ronnie Scott interrogates our current obsession with food - and asks whether it's actually such a bad thing. Salad Days takes us via the world's best restaurants in Noma and elBulli, and more humble yet no less delicious restaurants and caf�s in Melbourne, while interrogating how...

Since 1997, Hong Kong's economic growth rate has dropped sharply, inequality has increased, and corruption has found its way to the highest levels of government. These developments, Simon Cartledge argues, can be attributed to the city's 'pro-business' constitution, which has held back change and...

From the turbulent 1960s until today, Hong Kong has been a city shaped by civil disobedience. The latest wave of protests in Hong Kong's long history of public dissent culminated in the Occupy Central movement of 2014. What emerges from these grassroots movements is a unique Hong Kong identity, one...

Suddenly there was a trench across the beach, about ten meters away from the fishermen, where before there had been nothing but flat sand.� The fishermen moved quickly away as the trench heaved grey ash across the sand.� They sprinted when it hurled black rocks at them. Kerta didn't want...

Set in the dramatic beauty of the Kimberley region, this is the poignant story of Matthew and his unusual friendship with an Aboriginal girl.

Thomas Timewell is sixteen and a gentleman. When he meets a body-snatcher called Plenitude, his whole life changes. He is pursued by cutthroats, a gypsy with a meat cleaver, and even the Grim Reaper. More disturbing still, Thomas has to spend an evening with the worst novelist in the world. A very...

It's 1864 . . . and Poppy is on the road again, heading to the town of Wahgunyah.� On the way she meets a stranger who seems to know something about her past, and her special letter with the red tiger seal.� But the more time she spends with this boy, the more difficult he becomes.� Should Poppy...

With our bags full of rats, the five of us began walking towards the line. We'd gone only a few yards when a voice sounded off to our left. 'What 'ave we 'ere, then?' it said. We turned our heads and say Bluey Lonnegan lifting himself up off a sandstone wall. 'You're lookin' at the Black Dog Gang,'...

Karl Chandler is a funny bugger and so are his mates.� In fact, our local talent has been killing it in clubs and festivals the world over.� Lucky for us, these comics have worked around their hectic schedules - setting their alarm clocks for before midday and logging off Twitter - to cough up...

Here is all the advice you don't want to hear from your parents, and if you're a parent, you don't want to have to tell your kids.� Stuff such as: - Why you should think twice about a threesome - Who gets rid of the condom after sex - How to avoid an attack (and how to fight back) - Why you should...

'Love comes out of nowhere for most of us, when we least expect it.' Amidst the carnage of Gallipoli, British nurse Claire Nightingale meets Australian Light Horseman Jamie Wren. Despite all odds, they fall deeply in love. Their flame burns bright and carries them through their darkest hours, even...