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Yeonnam-Dong’s Smiley Laundromat is a place where the extraordinary stories of ordinary residents unfold.
Situated at the heart of rapidly gentrifying district of Seoul, it's a haven of peace and reflection for many locals.
And when a notebook is left behind there, it becomes a place that brings people together.
One by one, customers start jotting down candid diary entries, opening their hearts and inviting acts of kindness from neighbours who were once just faces in the crowd.
But there is a darker story behind the notebook, and before long the laundromat’s regulars are teaming up to solve the mystery and put the world to rights.
Instantly capturing the hearts of Korean readers, this is a novel about the preciousness of human relationships and the power of solidarity in a world that is increasingly cold, fast-paced and virtual.
Stunningly designed flexibound book profiling the top 40 most famous Australian pop and rock songs.
What a famous song is about and what you think it’s about aren’t always the same thing.
National Anthems names the top 40 classic Australian songs and tells the stories behind them — many unknown.
From Hunters and Collectors’ Throw Your Arms Around Me to INXS's Don't Change and Red Gum’s I Was Only 19, author Glen Humphries unearths hidden gems and surprising back stories about the bands.
It’s a celebration of great Australian music that will have you reaching for old vinyl or phone apps to give some of these classics another listen.
Chances are, each song is not what you had assumed.
A Mother's Life: I Want To Know Everything About You
Gift Books (GREAT GIFT FOR A CHILD TO GIVE THEIR MUM — YOUNG OR OLD)
Discover all the details you never knew about your mother's life with this beautiful keepsake journal filled with over 100 prompts.
A Mother's Life is organised into chapters covering your mother's childhood and youth, starting a family, family traditions, reflections and wisdom, and more. Thought-provoking prompts and questions and inspirational quotes about mothers will encourage your mother to reflect and dig deep into her memories and stories. Reveal your mother's unique story by asking:
What were you afraid of when you were a child?
When you were in high school, what did you imagine for you future?
Describe what it felt like when you became a new mother.
The Midwatch is the long-awaited new middle-grade novel from internationally bestselling author-illustrator Judith Rossell, creator of the multi-award-winning novel Withering-by-Sea.
‘The city was stuffed full of wickedness, everyone knew that …’
Banished to the Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways and Unwanted Girls, Maggie Fishbone is sure she’s in for a life of drudgery.
But she quickly discovers there’s more to the Midwatch than meets the eye … The city shimmers with jewels and secrets, and soon Maggie is thrust into an adventure that takes her deep underground, high above the clouds and face to face with danger itself.
Turn the page and prepare to be drawn into a lavishly illustrated world, brimming with mystery, unlikely heroines and an adventure as big as the sky.
Discover the incredible features and characteristics of some of the natural world’s most fascinating extinct and critically endangered animals in the latest gorgeously illustrated hardcover encyclopaedia from award-winning author and illustrator Sami Bayly.
Pore over beautifully detailed illustrations of some of the most fascinating extinct and critically endangered animals in the natural world.
Discover how these species fit into the history of the animal kingdom and why they have become extinct or are under threat.
Featuring facts and astonishing illustrations about sixty amazing animals, including the Western black rhino, thylacine, dodo, South Island giant moa and Tapanuli orangutan, as well as megafauna such as the giant wombat-like diprotodon and the crocodile-like quinkana.
Plus creatures with mysterious origins like Delcourt’s giant gecko. Children and adults alike will wonder at the contribution these animals have made to the natural world while being reminded of the importance of wildlife conservation.
