BookOffers.com.au Handpicked Australian Bestsellers & New Books

Unless we act now, the prognosis for the world’s oceans is dire…About one-third of the carbon dioxide humans put into the atmosphere ends up in the ocean.” - Marian Wilkinson smh.com.au October 18 2008
Globally the oceans cover 71 per cent of the planet s surface and contain 90 per cent of the mass of life [...]

We’ve had loads of books about chefs so it is refreshing to get the inside stories from the all important waiters - Waiter Rant is a great read, full of hellish customers and crazy chefs. Highly recommended.

Most restaurant customers are nice people, but a few are socially maladjusted psychopaths who relish giving their waiters a [...]

You Can’t Always Get What you Want is an exhilarating, access-all-areas rock memoir from someone who has seen - and done - it all.

Sam Cutler was tour manager for the Rolling Stones at some of their major gigs in the late sixties, including the free California concert at which a man was murdered by a [...]

Fans of The Brady Bunch know Maureen McCormick as Marcia Brady, the wholesome older sister on the classic sitcom about a blended family. But in her new memoir, “Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice,” Maureen writes of her romance with TV sibling Barry Williams, who played Greg Brady, dates with [...]

marie claire Fresh + Fast is the first in a sequence of three exciting new Marie Claire cookbooks.

They will each offer the quality and style synonymous with this internationally popular brand, presented in a fresh and vibrant new format. marie claire Fresh + Fast contains more than 100 outstanding new recipes from Michele Cranston, each [...]

‘Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.’ - Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is the world’s richest man, worth an estimated USD$62 billion. For the first time in his life, he has agreed to cooperate on a book that will be a biography of his ideas, a [...]

On October 8th, 2004, Schapelle Corby was stopped at Bali airport by customs officiacls, carrying 4.1 kg of cannabis in her unlocked bodyboard bag. Tony Wilson, a journalist for the Gold Coast Bulletin, was at work when the news came through. His life has been a rollercoaster ride ever since.
Schapelle was subsequently sentenced to 20 [...]

As seen in the Good Weekend, David Marr has written the story behind Bill Henson photographs, The Henson Case.

The Australian Prime Minister called them ‘absolutely revolting’. Their removal from a Sydney art gallery was hailed by the Daily Telegraph as a ‘Victory for Decency’. Cate Blanchett and members of the arts community claimed charges laid [...]

It is an enchanting whole, the biography of an age perhaps - Alison Bashford smh.com.au October 4 2008

This book tells the story of three remarkable scientific friendships during the Romantic Age in Britain. The astronomers William and Caroline Herschel, the chemists Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday and the medical scientists, John Abernethy and William Lawrence [...]

Heath Ledger was one of Australia’s brightest movie stars, but beneath the surface, Heath was in turmoil. Heath Ledger: Hollywood’s Dark Star delves into the secrets surrounding his death.

Heath Ledger was one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. After establishing a high-profile Hollywood career at the age of 21 with the lead in [...]