Books from Random House Australia

  • Tallow
    Tallow
    By Karen Brooks

    Raised as a candlemaker's apprentice, orphan Tallow's talent at candlemaking reveals her unusual and powerful magical abilities--abilities that her many unseen enemies will do anything to control.

  • Illumination
    Illumination
    By Karen Brooks

    Betrayed, manipulated and hunted, Tallow is a pawn in a deadly game. In order to win, she will have to sacrifice everything . . . including the man she loves. The Curse of the Bond Riders book 3

  • Votive
    Votive
    By Karen Brooks

    One look will steal your heart, but her touch will take your soul , , , La Serenissima - a beautiful but deadly city where corrupt aristocrats rule and everything, including love, has a price.

  • Mr Men: Mr. Tickle
    Mr Men: Mr. Tickle
    By Roger Hargreaves

    Now, 50 years later you can enjoy this special upsized edition of the classic story with a bonus new story about how it all began.

  • Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
    Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
    By Peter FitzSimons

    This book focuses on Mawson's extraordinary feats in Antarctica, in tandem with the giants of the age, Scott of the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen.

  • Aussie Surfing Heroes
    Aussie Surfing Heroes
    By Mark Occhilupo, Mick Fanning, Tim Baker

    There was Gerry Manion, a little guy who charged huge barrels and who was also a racing car driver. Or Richard Herbert, who also went by the stage name Dick Bent in his band the Bentniks. There was Jim Banks, who already had a ...

  • Occy
    Occy
    By Mark Occhilupo, Tim Baker

    There was Gerry Manion, a little guy who charged huge barrels and who was also a racing car driver. Or Richard Herbert, who also went by the stage name Dick Bent in his band the Bentniks. There was Jim Banks, who already had a ...

  • Mistaken Identity: The Trials of Joe Windred
    Mistaken Identity: The Trials of Joe Windred
    By Stephen Dando-Collins

    I warmly commend this book which is based on wide and meticulous research and tells a remarkable story with passion and flair. -- Robert Wilson

  • Caesar the War Dog 4: Operation Green Parrot
    Caesar the War Dog 4: Operation Green Parrot
    By Stephen Dando-Collins

    While Dando-Collins has penned award winning books on military history for the adult market, the knowledge he has gained from those works have translated well for younger readers . . .

  • Heroes of Hamel
    Heroes of Hamel
    By Stephen Dando-Collins

    Australians Private Henry Dalziel and Lance Corporal Jack Axford, who both won the Victoria Cross (VC) for their gallantry during the battle, and Sergeant Ned Searle (who is related to Stephen Dando-Collins), who set out to win a Victoria ...

  • The Hero Maker: A Biography of Paul Brickhill: The Australian behind the legendary stories The Dam Busters, The Great Escape...
    The Hero Maker: A Biography of Paul Brickhill: The Australian behind the legendary stories The Dam Busters, The Great Escape...
    By Stephen Dando-Collins

    Stephen Dando-Collins who has breathed life again into one of the integral storytellers .

  • Dog's Best Friend, A
    Dog's Best Friend, A
    By Laura Greaves

    These uplifting stories of dogs and their unlikely mates are living proof of the life-changing power of friendship.

  • Rescue Dog, The
    Rescue Dog, The
    By Laura Vissaritis

    Terriers vary in size, from the elongated Airedale terrier, to the short and stocky Stafford. Originally bred to hunt and kill animals from mice all the way up to bears, the variation in this breed is almost as large as the size ...

  • Use It or Lose It
    Use It or Lose It
    By Paul McIntyre

    I felt better for it, both mentally and physically, despite the everpresent hip pain. One of the worst aspects of the experience was dealing with the unwanted questions from well-meaning friends and strangers: 'Have you hurt yourself?

  • The Royal Academy of Sport for Girls 1: High Flyers
    The Royal Academy of Sport for Girls 1: High Flyers
    By Laura Sieveking

    The power of visualisation, as Coach Simon would say. I stared down the diagonal of the mat. My vision became a tunnel, focusing solely on the row ahead. The music reached its crescendo and I knew it was time.

  • Miracle Mutts
    Miracle Mutts
    By Laura Greaves

    Miracle Mutts shares the stories of miraculous dogs like these, dogs who conquered seemingly insurmountable odds, dogs whose futures seemed bleak, dogs that weren't expected to make it but triumphed and thrived in the face of incredible ...

  • The Tyrant's Nephew
    The Tyrant's Nephew
    By Sophie Masson

    There were some also of the dictator in his early days, in military uniform, standing by the fighter jet he used to fly; and there were a few family shots, of the dictator with his late wife, baby Sayid on her knees, ...

  • The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay
    The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay
    By David Murray

    How could descendants of Baden-Powell have come to be called Baden-Clay? Truth is, they were plain old Clays until the 1980s, when the surname was changed by deed poll to the far more illustrious sounding Baden-Clay.

  • Sydney Seafood School Cookbook
    Sydney Seafood School Cookbook
    By Roberta Muir

    LANTERN Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (Australia) 707 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3008, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, ...

  • Surviving Prostate Cancer: One Man's Journey
    Surviving Prostate Cancer: One Man's Journey
    By Mark Ragg, Alan Hopgood, Peter Royce

    Surviving Prostate Cancer is one of the first personal and medical accounts of this common yet little-understood condition. Australian actor and playwright Alan Hopgood was diagnosed with prostate cancer at 59.