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A vibrant and uplifting collection of comic illustrations about LGBTQ+ life, for the community and beyond, from the creator of the online sensation @queeeerchameleon that's loved by millions. Queer Chameleon and Friends reminds us that all experiences are valid, empowers us to accept and express our identities and those of others, and reassures us that even in challenging moments along the way, there's light and humor to be found. In this colorful, insightful and funny book, writer and illustrator Amee Wilson explores aspects of existing in a world not always designed for you - from silly questions and awkward-but-sometimes-accurate clichés, to the trials and tribulations of coming out (or choosing not to). A collection of beautifully illustrated conversations between the beloved character Queer Chameleon and their friends from across the community, it's a joyous celebration of life outside the boxes modern society has created.

"The world's a confusing and chaotic place. We thought lockdown was over . . . it wasn't. We hoped life would go back to normal . . . it hasn't. But Nat's What I Reckon knows one thing is definitely still true: jar sauce can get f*cked. So, to help champions keep levelling up their cooking skills and making ripper feeds from scratch at home, Nat has created this collection of 25 sh*t hot recipes that will get you out of a jam. This is stuff that's simple, easy to follow and tastes delicious, like Honey B*stard Chicken, Get F*cked Roast Potatoes and Frownie Reversal Orange Chocolate Brownie. There are no questionable ingredients here: purely Nat's trademark humour, a big dash of cheekiness and some genuinely handy culinary tips to boot. Death to Jar Sauce will see you through the good times and the tough times, hopefully with a few solid laughs and some awesome food on your plate. Recipes illustrated by Sydney artists Bunkwaa, Glenno, Warrick McMiles and Onnie O'Leary"--Publisher's description.

Life's tricky, cooking doesn't have to be. Nat's here to take the nonsense out of the kitchen with Smash Hits Recipes. Featuring Nat's most popular, tried-and-true dishes and some all-new hit singles, this special hardback collection is a sweary best mate for your kitchen. There are heaps of savory power moves that'll sort your dinner any night of the week, and some sweet sh*t too. Look out for Zero F*cks Mac 'n' Cheese, Crowd Goes Mild Curry, Chilli con Can't Be F*cked and Gimme a Break Celebration Cake - plus a load of other classics you'll want to make again and again. Give it a squiz, champion!

The former professional surfer tells his own story On the surface he was Tom Carroll, dreamer, brilliant surfer, Australian sports hero, fitness fanatic, businessman, family man, and big wave charger. But inside turned the terrible wheel of drug addiction--part family curse, part legacy of the footloose surf culture he'd done so much to legitimize. Tom's family and friends struggled with him, kept his secrets, and looked on in anger and fear as the wheel began to grind him down. Then a window opened, but getting through it made charging Pipeline look like a piece of cake. This is the story of an unlikely moral education: of humility, family, damage, brotherhood, youth, stupidity, glory, single-mindedness, and surrender, and about the feeling of water moving under a surfboard, how it can bind past to present and make sense of lives.

Passion pieces from the next generation of Australian longform journalists. Ten Australian writers, mentored by ten experienced Australian journalists developed stories that they new needed to be shared. Claire Keenan mentored by Amanda Hooton from GW, explores Catholicism in rural Australia, sexual abuse and why she is no longer a Catholic. Dan Jervis-Bardy mentored by legendary Michael Brissenden from the ABC, looks at the death of the Sudanese child refugee Safa Annour and challenges the resources dispersed when a child who dies is not white. Margaret Simons guided Esther Linder through the world of food supply chains in Australia and how tenuous they are, particularly with the increasing impacts of climate change. Iranian medical doctor Hessom Razavi, under direction from Victoria Laurie explores Australia's response to the global refugee crisis. Trans masculine Indigenous writer and powerlifter Arlie Alizzi, supported by Paddy Manning lifts the lid on mentorship and sexual harassment in powerlifting. Former lab scientist and now science journalist Jackson W Ryan, mentored by Richard Cooke, details the cover ups in the science laboratories at UNSW in the hunt for a ' miracle cure' cancer drug. Matthew Drummond assisted Liz Gooch as she explored whether Afghanistan will be permitted to send a team to the 2024 Paris Olympics. Environment journalist Penelope Craswell, guided by Ceridwen Dovey started out exploring environmental pollution focusing on the design of objects and ended up writing about the power, meaning and value of cups. Trans masculine writer and broadcaster Sam Elkin, particularly known for his work in sport, supported by Nick Feik, challenges colonial Australian history with his portrait of Edward de Lacy Evans who was assigned female at birth but lived life as a man on the Goldfields of Victoria, and elsewhere. With direction from Maddison Connaughton, ABC cadet Wing Kuang follows up on sexual consent education in culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Oustanding stories you don't want to miss.

Black sheep - there's one in every family . . . Orphaned at sixteen, James Wakefield was determined to be a gun shearer like his father. Now he's killed twice, changed his name, and is on the run from the law. He had his reasons for both murders, and he felt no joy in taking life ... Or did he? Ben McKinnon, meanwhile, is heir to the vast Glenfinnan sheep property near Goulburn, New South Wales. He too has a secret that, if ever revealed, would shatter the privileged lives of his father, Alastair, and his sisters, Jenna and Adele. When fate brings James and Ben together, a powerful friendship is forged, both men gladly becoming the keeper of the other's secret. Then Ben insists his new friend come to work at Glenfinnan Station. Has James finally found the family he's always longed for? Or has the McKinnon dynasty just unwittingly adopted a black sheep? From the Shearing Wars of Queensland to the the close colonial community of Goulburn, to the trenches of the Western Front, Judy Nunn once again brings Australian history vividly to life.

Anna Winter, a young woman unwittingly caught up inside a ring of sophisticated Nazi spies, chooses to flee Germany in 1933, taking her precious doll collection with her as she sets sail for Australia. Soon after her arrival she finds herself in a remote outback town, working as a nanny for the family of Tom O' Hara, owner of the Birdum Hotel. Doubling up as the local bartender and cook, Anna hides her past from the world, until a chance encounter with an eccentric stranger, Alter Mayseh, changes everything. A Yiddish poet fleeing persecution, Alter has seen the writing on the wall for his people. Armed with a letter of introduction from Albert Einstein, he manages to flee Europe, arriving in Australia in 1938 in search of a safe place he can call home. The odd pair fall in love, finding a sense of belonging and hope in each other. However, suspicious that a dark past has followed Anna across both oceans and desert, Alter is determined to unravel the mysterious secrets she may hold. One day, he stumbles across a clue that threatens to destroy the delicate life Anna has built on top of her hidden past.

Comedian Oliver Twist was four years old when he and his family fled the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda for Malawi, their exile for the next fourteen years. Twist has turned the turmoil he and his family endured into a thrilling adventure of a hero's journey. A natural born storyteller, propelled from the cold alleys of a Malawian refugee camp to the warm spotlight of the Australian stage, he vividly describes what it's like to leave your homeland behind and to have to wait your whole childhood for life to begin. Powerful, heartbreaking and full of humour, Jali marks the arrival of a dazzling new voice.

From the author of the bestselling Cutters End and Stone Town, a captivating new crime novel featuring Detective Mark Ariti. Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spectacular Australian landscape known for its jagged cliffs and hidden caves. Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti has taken a few days' holiday in Broken Bay at precisely the wrong time. The small fishing town on South Australia's Limestone Coast is now the scene of a terrible tragedy. Renowned cave-diver Mya Rennik has drowned while exploring a sinkhole on the land of wealthy farmer Frank Doyle. As the press descends, Mark's boss orders him to stay put and assist the police operation. But when they retrieve Mya's body, a whole new mystery is opened up, around the disappearance of a young local woman twenty years before . . . Suddenly Mark is diving deep into the town's history - and in particular the simmering rivalry between its two most prominent families, the Doyles and Sinclairs.

True love. Crushing failure. Hot dates. Wild ambition. Motherhood. Sisterhood. Brittany Hockley and Laura Byrne, former Bachelor finalists and hosts of the number-one podcast Life Uncut, have bumbled their way through it all. And they're here to make you feel a little less alone in the chaos. Through interviewing the experts, dispensing advice and tackling questions about love and life - both big and small - on Life Uncut, Laura and Britt have created a community of open-hearted and supportive women. Now they've distilled their most trusted and true advice into a book that's as much about romance as it is about loving ourselves. WE LOVE LOVE is an encyclopaedia of life as Britt and Laura have lived it, full of hard-won wisdom, hilarious anecdotes, serious challenges and refreshing honesty. From attachment styles to ghosting, pregnancy loss to impostor syndrome, long-distance relationships to sexual kinks, and with some unfiltered stories from listeners thrown in along the way, Laura and Britt give their take on pretty much everything from, well, A to Z with their signature humour, wit and authenticity.

The British Admiralty's telegram arrived at Navy Office in Melbourne, the order to go to all-out war. It was coldly succinct: TOTAL GERMANY ... The war at sea had begun. When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. HMAS Vendetta, Vampire, Voyager, Stuart and Waterhen were old ships, small with worn-out engines. Their crews used to joke they were held together by string and chewing gum; when the Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels heard of them, he sneered that they were a load of scrap iron. Yet by the middle of 1940, these destroyers were valiantly escorting troop and supply convoys, successfully hunting for submarines and indefatigably bombarding enemy coasts. Sometimes the weather could be their worst enemy - from filthy sandstorms blowing off Africa to icy gales from Europe that whipped up mountainous seas and froze the guns.

An accessible and practical guide to sprinkling more spirituality through your life, no matter how busy you are. Have you ever wondered if anything exists beyond what you can see around you? Or have you ever felt restless or dissatisfied, or as if something is calling out to you from somewhere that's not quite here? So many of us are searching for more beyond the relentless daily grind and feeling lost, isolated or out of touch with our hearts and our minds. Though our busy world is full of distraction, what's often harder to find is a clear path through the noise and confusion. Cael O'Donnell is a former mental health therapist who now uses his abilities as a psychic medium to help hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to find guidance from the universe and tap into the resources already within them. From manifestation and dreams to spirit guides, the tools are all around us if we know how to identify and use them.

This gorgeous story explores the exciting lead-up to Easter in Australia. The I'm Ready series is a collection of fun, bright board books illustrated by the talented Jedda Robaard. These gorgeous stories are handy explainers that the whole family will love. The I'm Ready books celebrate the exciting milestones and events in your child's life.

The League of Llamas (LOL) are a group of secret llama agents and they're on a mission to save the world--if only Agent 0011 Phillipe Llamar could stop looking in the mirror at his luxurious fringe and Agent 0013 Lloyd Llamanator could resist the temptation to eat everything in his path! There's also the thieving General Bottomburp to contend with and a mysterious lady llama in red. Can Phillipe and Lloyd foil the evil plans of Bottomburp and his badger henchmen? The fate of the Llama Republic's most prized relic, the Golden Llama, depends on it!

British mother Rosie Ayliffe thought her 21-year-old daughter, Mia, would be safe travelling around Australia on a gap year. But Mia wanted to extend her visa and in order to do that needed to find 88 days of work on a farm - a requirement that would lead to catastrophic events. Four short days after Mia moved to a hostel in Queensland to take a job on a sugarcane farm, she was brutally killed. Faced with every parent's worst nightmare, Rosie travelled to Australia to retrieve Mia's body. From the moment she landed, however, she started to hear stories about the terrible treatment of young workers like Mia - stories of exploitation, sexual harassment, rape. Mia was Rosie's only child and she brought her up as a single parent. Her death was traumatic and life-changing. In Rosie's memoir, she describes movingly how she has found the strength to come to terms with devastating loss, drawing on inspiration from her daughter's short life. She also explains how she has become the driving force behind an international campaign to press for change to the 88 days system. Part exposé of the dangers facing backpackers in Australia, part call to arms, ultimately Far from Home is an inspiring and heartfelt story of a mother's love for her daughter and her fight to protect others from suffering a similar tragedy.

The new hilarious instalment in Tom Weekly's adventures . . . didn't disappoint . . . Again, Tristan has given us a prime motivator to get kids reading - and enjoying it - this is bound to be another sure-fire winner with the kids from around Year 3 upwards., These guys are having way too much fun. Author Tristan Bancks and illustrator Gus Gordon are at it again with more stories about poor Tom Weekly. Tom Weekly: My Life and Other Failed Experiments is the sixth book in the series and the laughs continue., An endearing chapter book that charts the hazardous journey that is Tom's everyday life . . . Tom Weekly would appeal to a wide audience, including boys, girls and curious parents . . . Tom Weekly is undoubtedly more-ish.

Tristan can go from writing the powerful and haunting Two Wolves to the whacky humour of his character Tom Weekly in the 'My Life' series with seeming ease . . . This fifth 'My Life' book is as laugh out loud funny as the others and the third to include a story written by a young writer . . . My Life and Other Weaponised Muffins is packed full of great images by Gus Gordon, short stories, jokes, cartoons, quizzes and lists 'by' character Tom Weekly and includes the idea of selling your head lice for fun and profit and raspberry and white chocolate muffins as weapons of minor destruction., This title is a laugh-a-minute, rip-roaring read for adults and children alike.

This is a hilarious novel aimed at and highly recommended for boys aged 9+. Each chapter is a short story in itself so even the most reluctant readers will find themselves engaged in each descriptive and 'giggle' moment!, Tristan's My Life books should come with a warning about snorting aloud. Tom Weeks is back with his brand of bizarre daily life to make readers laugh out loud ... All in all, another hit for those readers who want the wacky side of life delivered up to them complete with scabs. Highly recommended for kids from around 8 years upwards.

Tom's stories are short, funny and often gross. They are bound to appeal to boys of Tom's age, and possibly some girls too. The stories start off plausible but by the end have stretched into (very funny) tall tales. The illustrations are cartoonish and enhance the text. It's easy to believe that they are the work of a middle school boy. Recommended for upper primary/lower secondary students, public libraries and reluctant readers everywhere., Bancks knows what will make young readers laugh, and want more. Gus Gordon's cartoon-like sketches, lists, random jottings, text boxes, and other interjections add to the humour. I recommend these chapter books particularly for boys who are not yet sure they love to read. But I bet any youngster will relate to Tom's misadventures., Like Dahl, Bancks is passionate about inspiring a love of reading in the young by placing fun at the centre of his storytelling.

Just because we're little doesn't mean we can't learn BIG facts. Have you ever wondered how the Stegosaurus got its name? If you're a Little Historian who wants to learn all about dinosaurs, get ready to GO BACK IN TIME with Puffin Little!

Just because we're little doesn't mean we can't learn BIG facts. Have you ever wondered why plants need sunlight? If you're a Little Environmentalist who is ready to garden, then you're about to GROW A JUNGLE with Puffin Little!

Skilfully written, with moments of laugh-out-loud humour, Lovebirds both warmed and broke my heart in perfect measure.' Joanna Nell In their youth, lovebirds Elizabeth and Ray had to fight to be together. Their future was full of promise and, blessed with children and careers, their happiness complete. But a twist of fate changed their lives forever. Now in her sixties, Elizabeth is desperately lonely. She rarely sees her two adult sons and her closest friend is a talkative budgie. But when her grandson, Zach, gets into trouble with the police, she decides to take him on a road trip to find his grandfather, her lost love Ray, in the hope of mending their broken family. Two less compatible travelling companions would be hard to find, as they set off on an unlikely adventure into the wilds of the northern NSW hinterland. What they discover along the way, about Ray and each other, has the power to transform them all. In trying to save Zach, Elizabeth might just save herself. Warm, witty and wise, Lovebirds is an astute and uplifting novel about the power of love and family.

Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a year. Including original pieces from Lenore Taylor, Jess Hill, Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Lucashenko, Billy Griffiths, Kim Scott, Brenda Walker, Jane Rawson, Omar Sakr, Richard McGregor, Jennifer Mills, Gabrielle Chan, John Birmingham, Tim Flannery, Rebecca Giggs, Kate Cole-Adams, George Megalogenis, James Bradley, Alison Croggan, Melanie Cheng, Kirsten Tranter, Tom Griffiths, Joelle Gergis and Delia Falconer.

Whether you're looking to train a new puppy or to teach an older dog some new tricks, this easy-to-follow guide is for you. Jen and Ryan Tate are expert animal trainers with years of experience helping dog owners to develop happy and confident pets. In this informative book they distil all their advice so you can feel prepared, stay in control and enjoy a great relationship with your new dog, including: - Choosing the right breed for you and your lifestyle - Preparing your home and the first 48 hours with your pup - House training and basic training - Socialisation and confidence-building - Play, exercise, tricks and rewards - Resolving common behavioural issues such as barking, digging and chewing - Ongoing learning and fun for teenage and adult dogs Clearly written and well organised, and with evidence-based training techniques, this is the perfect handbook for creating a stress-free and enjoyable bond with your puppy or dog.

Most of us don't love cleaning, but it's something that has to be done. So why not share all our trusty tips and clever shortcuts with each other to get the job done quicker? Rachael and Karlie are the creators of Mums Who Clean, the busy Facebook group where hundreds of thousands of Aussie mums swap their secrets for keeping their homes fresh and sparkling and dealing with domestic dilemmas. Whether it's soap scum in the shower, stubborn oven mess or kids' slime disasters, these ladies have the solutions - and often they're things you'd never think of trying! Combining all this tried-and-tested advice in one handy guide, Mums Who Clean covers: - The community's top cleaning products and tools, and how to use them for the best results - Exactly how to clean your home, room by room - Budget-friendly cleaning and odour-eliminating recipes - Dealing with unexpected guests and an out-of-control house - Real-estate cleaning - Creating a cleaning schedule for your family Enjoy the most gleaming and organised house you've ever had with Mums Who Clean.