Books

Gardening Through the Year in Australia - $44.97

Use your essential month-by-month gardening companion! Successful gardening depends on timing – knowing what to do and when to do it. Gardening Through the Year in Australia is the ultimate authoritative and easy-to-use gardener’s guide, so you can plan and look forward to bloom and harvest in your garden all year round!

FEATURES: • 1,300 seasonal tasks for every part of your garden • At-a-glance monthly checklists – you’ll be prepared for every time of the year • Monthly weather watch • Inspirational DIY projects for every month – from creating a pond to making a cold frame • Beautiful photographs and illustrations to guide you plus a gallery of star plants for each month • Expert advice on cultivation • A-Z plant directory Is your garden suffering from climate changes? Find out what to do and when! New Edition • 384 pages • 235mm x 263mm • Paperback • Month-by-month planting guide • Over 1,000 full-colour photographs

Health Smart - $29.95 (12 month subscription)

In every issue you'll find help to eat well, look good, get fit, embrace life and make the right decisions to keep you and your family healthy every day. Recipes, advice, real people, great stories and essential facts. Get started today! Get HealthSmart! 

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Ray: Stories of My Life by Ray Martin - $49.98

As one of Australia’s biggest TV stars, Ray Martin needs no introduction. But before his career in the glamorous world of television, Ray had a difficult early life. Before he got to high school, he had lived in 13 different places and in three states. His father was a violent drinker and to escape him, his mother constantly uprooted the family to the other side of Australia. Ray’s world was as far away from Hollywood and the bright lights as is possible to imagine ... Funny thought-provoking and inspiring, Ray: Stories Of My Life is the most compelling autobiography you will read this year.

Suitcase of Suspense - $49.98

Lovers of suspense will think their Christmases have all come at once with this set of 4 superb anthologies. Each collection positively sizzles with short stories by some of the genre's best-known authors - Patricia Highsmith, Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to name just a few. Classic stories like The Blue Geranium (Agatha Christie), 'H' As In Homicide (Lawrence Treat), The Rocking Horse Spy (Ted Allbeury) andThe Waxwork (A. M. Burrage) will have your adrenalin pumping as you delve deeper into the intrigue, characters and masterful plots.

4 book set, each book 196mm x 130mm. Classic Detective Stories: 6 stories. Classic Murder Stories: 8 stories. Classic Mystery Stories: 8 stories. Classic Espionage Stories: 6 stories.

True Grit & Dry Wit - $29.98

R.M. Winn is back with more great stories of real people from rural and bush Australia. In True Grit & Dry Wit he has interviewed seven diverse people including a retired schoolteacher who runs a local history museum, a fencing contractor and a park ranger. With his usual larrikin wit, Winn brings each person to life on the page so effortlessly, you’ll feel like you’ve made seven new friends! 256 pages

The Everything Healthy Meals in Minutes Cookbook - $26.96

A quick-and-easy introduction to healthy cookery presents three hundred simple but delicious recipes for dishes that can be made in thirty minutes or less. Recipes include a range of appetizers, soups, main courses, and desserts, designed to help promote health, lose weight, and maintain optimum fitness.

Secrets of Slow Cooking - $26.96

The slow cooker has been a true boon for the busy chef, but until now, most slow-cooker recipes have been developed with an eye toward forgetting about the cooking rather than creating memorable dishes. That's about to change. With Secrets of Slow Cooking, even those with the most hectic lifestyle can create unforgettable meals with very little effort. Concentrating on dishes that are best made in a slow cooker, author Liana Krissoff presents classics as well as new tastes. Beginning with a discussion of how to choose the right slow cooker, Krissoff offers more than 60 recipes for extraordinary slow-cooked food. From appetisers to vegetables to main dishes to desserts, here are foods that will delight family and friends - Duck Confit, Soy-Glazed Beef Short Ribs, Wild Rice with Cherries and Orange, Apricot and Chocolate Bread Pudding and Chewy-Fudgy Brownies, to name but a few. Secrets of Slow Cooking will take your slow cooker from a convenient appliance to a treasured kitchen necessity.

The Da Vino Code - $40.46

What do you get when you mix a blockbuster book with a bottle of wine? None other than The Da Vino Code. The perfect gift book for wine lovers. A spirited, irreverent picture book peppered with art, mystery, wine, and, er, more wine. If you are not seeing double yet, flip through the 32 colorful pages, and see if you, like Da Vino, can unlock the secret development of wine through the ages. A two-glass, must read!

Fantastic Party Cakes - $44.96

This book helps you make exquisitely decorated and presented sweet cakes which can be used as the central focal point for celebratory occasions, from children's parties to weddings - to beautiful presents for giving. These cakes can be personalised for someone special or tiered together to stunning visual effects. The ideas, designs and presentation of these individual cakes can be influenced by the recipient, theme of the event, type of celebratory occasion with numerous flavours, colours, styles, shapes and decorative displays to inspire. A single beautifully decorated and presented cake makes for a special gift whereas a chocolate stand filled with mouth-watering ganache bites proves tempting for more social gatherings.

Eat to Beat Arthritis - $22.46

Freshly jacketed massmarket edition of this bestselling guide to beating arthritis through nutrition. With over 60 delicious recipes from cook Marguerite Patten, who completely eased her own painful arthritic symptoms through diet, and a comprehensive self-treatment plan from nutritionist Jeannette Ewin. Marguerite Patten suffered from crippling arthritis, but was completely eased of her painful symptoms after following Giraud Campbell's original classic arthritis diet, The New Doctor's Proven Home Cure for Arthritis. However, as a cook she found the recipes impractical and often unpalatable- so she set about creating a whole new set of easy to prepare, good to eat, arthritis-beating recipes. The 60 delicious recipes are accompanied by a nutritional plan devised by Harvard medical School trained nutrition expert and author Jeannette Ewin.