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Summer Catalogue 2025 Cover

Win a summer reading pack

Our Summer Reads catalogue is your guide to unmissable reads. 

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Win a Benjamin Stevenson pack

You can steal more from a bank than just money. Who is stealing what? And are they willing to kill for it? 

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2025-10

Win a Kate Mildenhall pack

The Hiding Place is a razor-sharp literary thriller about deception and self-deception, and how far people will go to protect what they feel they ought to have. 

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2025-10

Win a First Nations pack

Secrets is a sweeping saga spanning more than half a century, with a cast of indelible characters. 

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2025-09

Win a Sally Hepworth pack

Sally Hepworth is at her finest in this twisty, compulsive thriller of friendship, family and murder. Or is it justice...? 

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2025-11

Win a Bryan Brown pack

Bryan Brown's distinctive storytelling voice returns in this unflinching, gripping novel. 

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Win a Thursday Murder Club set

The next unmissable mystery in the bestselling, record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series. 

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2025-11

Win a Kerry Greenwood pack

Can Phryne Fisher bring to light the proof she needs before the murderer strikes again? 

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2025-10

Win a Satoshi Yagisawa pack

Days at the Torunka Cafe is a charming and poignant story where customers find unexpected connections and experience everyday miracles. 

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2025-10

Win a Michael Connelly pack

Mickey Haller finds himself on the wild frontier of the billion-dollar AI industry. 

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2025-09

Win an Elizabeth Gilbert set

Elizabeth Gilbert taught millions of readers to live authentically with Eat Pray Love and creatively with Big Magic now she shows readers how to break free

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2025-10

Win a Grantlee Kieza pack

This is the inspiring story of Mary Penfold, the mother of the Australian wine industry. 

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2025-09

Win a Roland Perry pack

The extraordinary life of the true genius behind the atomic bomb, radar and much more. 

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2025-10

Win a picture book set

A gentle and thoughtful picture book about showing kindness to ourselves and each other. 

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2025-10

Win an Oliver Jeffers pack

In the newest picture book from Oliver Jeffers, his bold and brilliant art pairs with a powerful story that makes readers realise what truly matters. 

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2025-11

Win a picture book pack

Take a journey through words and drawings in this magical adventure. 

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2025-10

Win an illustrated print

Before You Close Your Eyes encourages children to reflect on their day as they head off to sleep. 

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2025-09

Win a Claris plush and book pack

Compassion is always in fashion in this beloved series by acclaimed children's author and fashion illustrator Megan Hess. 

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2025-08

Win the Frog Squad series

A hilarious new illustrated series featuring a group of extremely cashed up guinea pigs (and a capybara). 

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2025-09

Win a Jane Doe boxed set

In the explosive finale to the beloved and best-selling Jane Doe Chronicles, Jane faces an impossible battle against an all-powerful enemy. 

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2025-11

Win a full set of Skandar novels

Discover how it all began in this unmissable Skandar origin story. 

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2025-09

Win a Philip Bunting pack

A playful peek at some of prehistory's most peculiar and fabulous dinosaurs. 

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2025-09

Win a set of Illustrated Encyclopaedias

A stunning encyclopaedia filled with incredibly detailed illustrations and fun facts about some of the most fascinating fast and slow animals. 

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2025-10

Win a Hannah Gold slipcase

Join April Wood on a thrilling Arctic adventure set in the world of the internationally bestselling The Last Bear and Finding Bear

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2025-10

Win a Travelling Bookshop set

Relish in mischief, adventure and the most unusual family ever in Frances Bloom, a hilariously cheeky new illustrated series. 

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2025-10

Win the The Book of Dust series

The Rose Field is the highly anticipated conclusion to Philip Pullman’s bestselling The Book of Dust sequence. 

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2025-11

Win an E. Lockhart pack

We Fell Apart is a standalone novel by bestselling author E. Lockhart in the world of We Were Liars

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2025-09

Win a cookbook pack

The Wolf of Wok Street offers restaurant-quality, authentic Southeast Asian wok recipes that elevate home cooking with vibrant dishes and genuine ingredients. 

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2025-10

Win a Peter Fitzsimons pack

Weary Dunlop's heroic and inspiring story has been brought to life by Australia's greatest storyteller, Peter FitzSimons. 

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2025-11

Win a set of medieval histories

Steve Tibble traces the history of the Assassins and the Templars, two of history's most legendary groups, from their origins to their ultimate destruction. 

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2025-11

Win a Simon Winchester non-fiction pack

In The Breath of Gods, bestselling author Simon Winchester delivers a thought-provoking history of the wind. 

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2025-10

Win a Charles Macksey set

Charlie Mackesy’s hugely anticipated new book, revisiting the world of global phenomenon The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

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2025-09

Win a Miriam Margolyes set

An A-Z collection of wit and wisdom, insights, jokes, stories and aphorisms guaranteed to touch your heart, kickstart your brain, and leave you in stitches. 

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