Author: John Birmingham

Birmingham drills beneath the cover story of a successful multicultural metropolis and melts the boundaries between past and present to reveal a ghost city beneath the surface of concrete and glass. Combining intensive r ...

Author: Peter Carey

After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. 'I would never seek to define Manhattan by asking my New York ...

Author: Deborah Penrith

Australia is a country with a booming economy and a congenial climate. This is essential reading for all those people who dream of starting or buying a business there but don't know where to begin it guides those wishing ...

Author: Tom Parry

On the Road meets Down Under in this really rough guide to the adventures of an enthusiastic hitchhiker and his reluctant girlfriend on their quest for the real Australia. Hitching lifts with the desert's dodgiest driver ...

Author: John Sawyer & Liz Baker

Do you fancy the idea of preparing and eating a chorizo sausage and fennel risotto, accompanied by a Cloudy Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, at the Nydia Bay Hut in the Marlborough Sounds? Or perhaps you would prefer to ...

Author: James Cook

On the second of his three great voyages, James Cook (1728-1779) took on the most frightening of all his challenges - to travel as far south as possible, to regions never before explored, in the hope of finding a new gre ...

Author: John Darkin

James Cook visited New Zealand three times, although twice only briefly. His early contacts with Maori didn't merely establish Britain's colonial credentials, they set the tone for future race relations between two diffe ...

Author: Donna Blaber

Explore New Zealand and create your own memorable and unique holiday with New Zealand Driving Holidays. Spanning the nation from tip to toe, the 29 scenic routes detailed in this new practical guide will appeal to both n ...

Author: Roger McDonald

'Roger McDonald uses language with the precision of a diamond cutter.' US Publishers Weekly Another shed coming up on the horizon...a low, wide roof of galvanised iron the only landmark in a million square miles of flatn ...

Author: Dominic O'Grady

The hugely successful gay travel series is back and bang up to date! Out Around has been researched, written and photographed by gay authors and photographers, to give a fully integrated view of gay specific information, ...

Author: Danny Wallace

Danny Wallace finds an old address book containing just twelve names. His best mates as a kid. Where are they now? Who are they now? And how are they coping with being grown-up too? And so begins a journey from A-Z, trac ...

Author: Andrew Dwyer

Sitting around a campfire under the wash of a million stars listening to the sizzle of spicy satay skewers on the camp grill is the quintessential outback experience. Andrew Dwyer, Outback chef and adventurer, takes you ...

Author: Michael Cooper

This visually stunning atlas provides the most comprehensive overview of the wine industry in New Zealand and is the only Wine Atlas devoted entirely to New Zealand wines and wine-making. This second edition of the Wine ...

Author: Watkin Tench

Watkin Tench sailed to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. In his late twenties, a captain of the marines, he was insatiably curious about the new British colony of Australia. In his four years in the country, he wro ...

Author: Colin Taylor

From the vast emptiness of the Nullarbor Plain, on the longest straight rail line in the world, to the twisting tracks of outback Queensland and the rainforests of the north, Australia's railways offer a rich variety of ...

Author: Dave Cornthwaite

As Featured in the Guinness Book of Records, this is the thrilling, inspiring story of Dave Comthwaite's epic journey down-under by a most unusual form of transport. Tired of the nine-to-five, Dave decided one day that h ...

Author: Peter Moore

Women wanted him. Men wanted to be him. And one hot summer he roamed the Italian seaside breaking hearts throughout Sardinia, Sicily and along the Amalfi coast. Racy, loud and an incorrigible show-off, he was the epitome ...

Author: Graham Hutchins

Many New Zealand travel books concentrate on the major routes of passage through the country as they link tourist attractions with the main centres, provincial cities and significant tourism towns. While The Way to Go! A ...

Author: Susan Kelly

New Zealand has long been a favourite with those wishing to start a new life overseas: this book gives all the information necessary to make the idea of moving to the antipodes a reality. The book is illustrated with fir ...

Author: Tim Bowden

In a word: delightful - Herald SunPrepared to be charmed...- Canberra TimesWhen Tim Bowden went back to Tasmania to explore his state of origin for the first time in many years, he was reminded of his adolescent assertio ...