Item category 1: NONFIC

Natalie Bassingthwaighte, aka Nat Bass, has been on our screens and stages for decades, from her breakout role as Izzy Hoyland on Neighbours to iconic theatre performances as Roxie Hart and Shirley Valentine. As the lead singer of Rogue Traders, she took the Australian music industry by storm. Bu...

Engineers know there's always more than one way to solve a problem. Use your STEM smarts to brainstorm, design and build a machine in 10 different ways. Step-by-step projects will introduce you to the STEM concepts at the heart of making machines. Take the projects further by experimenting with y...

Excel Success One HSC reproduces past HSC papers with worked solutions for every question. This book includes: 2013-2019 Past HSC Mathematics Extension 1 (old syllabus) with indicators to show which questions are not examinable in the current Mathematics Extension 1 syllabus; Bonus questions from...

In July 2023, in a quiet Australian country town, Erin Patterson - housewife, mother, true crime devotee - invited her husband's family to lunch. Within days, three of her guests were dead and the fourth was in a coma. They had all been poisoned by Death Cap mushrooms. Two years later, Patterson...

What is it like to experience anxiety? This beautiful picture book explores the challenges of experiencing anxiety while providing strategies to help keep kids calm. Celebrating the resilience and courage it takes to have anxiety, this is a positive story that encourages kids to accept their brai...

Where have all the baby turtles gone? Brooke loves watching the turtles in the creek on her farm. But in spring, she notices broken eggshells down near the water. What is happening to the turtle eggs? Brooke decides to use her detective skills and sets out to solve the mystery of the missing turt...

When the White Island volcano erupted in New Zealand in 2019, it shattered the lives of Stephanie and Marie Browitt. Stephanie, just 23 years old, suffered horrific burns to 70 per cent of her body and lost her younger sister, Krystal Eve, in the tragedy. Both Stephanie and her father, Paul, were...

Pearson Economics 12: Australia in the Global Economy Student Book is updated annually to reflect the latest developments in Australia and the global economy relevant to Year 12 students. Updated for the latest curriculum. The 2026 editions have been comprehensively revised to reflect the shiftin...

Bank robber. Fugitive. Womaniser. Comedian. Conman. Chameleon. Fully revised and updated with exclusive anecdotes and pictures, this is the story of the man who became Australia's most feared bank robber and notorious prison breaker. Three times Brenden Abbott escaped custody, and for more than s...

Was Grigori Rasputin a visionary, a fraud, or a victim of history? Antony Beevor searches for the truth about the great seducer of the Romanovs, the wild mystic who laid the ground for the Russian Revolution.