ebooks quality bargains blog about us events calendar for the trade special interest flyers rights and permissions submissions shopping cart contact us terms and policies breaking news 26 09 2016 spring book sale on saturday 15 and sunday 16 october from 10 am to 4 pm we re throwing open our doors for our annual spring book sale . art history politics fiction food whatever you re interested in we ve got a book or three for you we ll be offering 3 for the price of 2 on all books and if you spend over 75 we ll give you a free library bag to carry them home . there will be a door prize up for grabs a sausage sizzle to satisfy your hunger and for the young ones a colouring in competition . so bring the kids . bring the dog . there ll be something for everyone cheapest item free previous news follow us on twitter this site requires javascript to function properly . please enable javascript in your web browser . hot off the press taking a punt a male dilemma peter endersbee peter endersbee musician photographer surfer and former football star was diagnosed with prostate cancer and confronted that terrifying dilemma proceed with surgery and face the prospect of impotence or wait and see . in taking a punt peter endersbee breaks the silence to share the story of a surgery that threatened his identity providing a voice for men facing the dilemma and for the baffled women in their lives . for at its heart taking a punt is a love story and a celebration of the courage to remain a sexual being . ... our price au 24.95 including gst quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 buy now add to wishlist more information wakefield press book bag love books love your local publisher want to shout it out to the world now you can with the wakefield press book bag . this locally made 100 % cotton shoulder bag is perfect for carting your overgrown collection of books around . fill with your favourite wakefield press titles oh okay or books from other publishers ... or indeed apples . a leg of lamb . designed by the always wonderful liz nicholson of designbite every sale of these pimpin bags helps wakefield out a little . and you get to look cool too . win win our price au 10.00 including gst quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 buy now add to wishlist more information jellyfish charles alexandre lesueur gabrielle baglione c dric cr mi re jacqueline goy as naturalists on explorer nicolas baudin s voyages fran ois p ron and illustrator charles alexandre lesueur collected thousands of species but both men became fascinated with jellyfish . their work brought the known number of jellyfish species to 120 over four times as many as had been documented previously . lesueur s shimmering illustrations created one of the first and most important depictions of jellyfish in the world . ... our price au 125.00 including gst quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 buy now add to wishlist more information charles alexandre lesueur painter and naturalist a forgotten treasure gabrielle baglione c dric cr mi re on 19 october 1800 charles alexandre lesueur set sail on a voyage of discovery to the southern lands led by nicolas baudin . he soon demonstrated his talents as a natural history artist . driven by an insatiable curiosity during a golden age for natural history and learned societies he travelled constantly throughout his life . his sketchbooks and vellums provide a record of the animals landscapes and indigenous people he encountered . our price au 79.95 including gst quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 buy now add to wishlist more information the west eastern divan of johann wolfgang von goethe johann wolfgang von goethe robert martin johann wolfgang von goethe 1749 1832 a towering figure in german culture was remarkably prolific in many literary genres . but much of his work is scarcely known in the english speaking world . with this new translation robert martin tries to remedy this situation with regard to one of goethe s most adventurous volumes of verse the west eastern divan . here goethe playfully pretends to be a middle eastern poet but draws on themes vital to all of humanity love creativity wisdom richness of life . our price au 24.95 including gst quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 buy now add to wishlist more information our fathers cleared the bush remembering eyre peninsula jill roe renowned historian jill roe whose grandparents were early settlers of south australia s west coast revisits her mid century childhood in what was one of australia s most remote regions . rhythms of work and play were punctuated by moments the annual show a visit from young queen elizabeth that connected farming lives however briefly to a changing world . ... our price au 29.95 including gst quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 buy now add to wishlist more information stanley spencer a twentieth century british master richard heathcote anna jug stanley spencer stanley spencer 1891 1959 is one of britain s most significant twentieth century painters . his extraordinary output of portraits complex figure compositions and religious masterpieces stands comparison with the european greats of his time . spencer was most famous and occasionally infamous for his celebration and immortalisation of his home village of cookham and his fusion of the menial and the miraculous . sex and saints dirt and angels the sacred and the profane all these were melded together by his extraordinary sense of pattern and design . ... published to coincide with the carrick hill exhibition stanley spencer a twentieth century british master on now . our price au 49.95 including gst quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 buy now add to wishlist more information the art of science nicolas baudin s voyagers 1800 1804 jean fornasiero lindl lawton john west sooby it was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave europe . at the dawn of the nineteenth century french navigator nicolas baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew on a three and a half year voyage to the southern lands charting coasts studying the natural environment and recording encounters with indigenous peoples . inspired by the enlightenment s hunger for knowledge baudin s expedition collected well in excess of 100 000 specimens produced more than 1500 drawings and published the first complete chart of australia . baudin s artists charles alexandre lesueur and nicolas martin petit painted a series of remarkable portraits of aboriginal people and produced some of the earliest european views of australian fauna . an integral part of the french scientific project these exquisite artworks reveal the sense of wonder this strange new world inspired . our price au 39.95 including gst quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 buy now add to wishlist more information franz kempf aspects of a journey 1947 2016 john neylon franz kempf in the year of the renowned artists 90th birthday franz kempf aspects of a journey gathers together many of kempf s finest works from the 1940s to today including treasures from his private collection . john neylon s illuminating essay considers the qualities that give kempf s oeuvre a distinctive identity within australian art characterised by this seeming contradiction of constancy and flux . ... our price au 34.95 including gst quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 buy now add to wishlist more information catherine truman touching distance melinda rackham catherine truman catherine truman s practice has a palpable anatomy . silken threads connecting gestures forms and techniques reach across time and location between suites of more traditionally crafted work and those that infiltrate and augment the scientific realm . the intertwining interdependent systems in her work articulate the relationships between the felt and experienced ; the seen and unseen ; between medium and production . ... view the catherine truman feature on sa life our price au 49.95 including gst quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 buy now add to wishlist more information 101 nights ray ollis robert brokenmouth the bombing campaign to destroy hitler s nazi germany was waged by allied flyers from not only england and the us but also with many australian men like ray ollis . flying as a navigator ray was assigned to 101 squadron operating the famed lancaster bomber fitted with the latest electronic warfare measures . ray ollis s lightly fictionalised record of his own experiences flying over the heart of germany at night provides a gripping account of this critical phase of history . our price au 29.95 including gst quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 buy now add to wishlist more information search advanced search browse by category your cart cart is empty view cart checkout wish list orders history log in username password log in register recover password subscribe would you like to subscribe to our occasional enewsletter and be advised when new titles of interest become available your email type the characters you see in the 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