Grp imprint: 65 books

How good design and eco-friendly building principles can reduce our impact on the earth - and how real, lived-in houses developed with integrity have a lasting connection to the land. Beautifully captured in full-colour photographs, these houses have been created by using traditional materials and techniques...

Rereleased with a stunning new cover, Florence Broadhurst is back. Using Broadhurst's iconic Turnabouts pattern, O'neill's awardwinning book has been revamped with another an eyecatching design. Florence Broadhurst was born in 1899 to a farming family in Mount Perry, the isolated heart...

For more than four decades Glenn Wheatley has been known on the Australian music scene as both the bass guitarist of the 1960s Australian pop group The Masters Apprentices, and as a successful music manager whose clients have included John Farnham, The Little River Band and Delta Goodrem. But in 2005,...

Under the Olive Tree is a story of family life and food in Lugano, an elegant city clinging to the edges of a Swiss lake near the northern Italian border, and the sapphire seas of the Costa Smeralda in Sardegna, Italy. Manuela Darling-Gansser, along with photographer Simon Griffiths, captures this inspirational...

Discover the city's best kept food secrets with The Foodies' Guide to Sydney. Food lovers know that when you want to enjoy a delicious meal at home, you need the best ingredients and the freshest produce. The Foodies' Guide to Sydney is the one book that shows you where to find these essentials and much...

The Melbourne food scene is alive and well! No matter the world's financial position, Melburnians it seems still want to enjoy good food. Fresh produce markets are buzzing with customers, great food stores are busy, bakery shelves are cleared of sourdough loaves by mid-afternoon and our chocolate makers...

Unlike many in the West, the Chinese see food not as a chore to prepare and sourceof unwanted calories, but as a health-giving pleasure. In 15 short, captivatingchapters, Lorraine Clissold explains why the Chinese can eat as much as theywants without worrying about their weight.

This is the first volume of an annual series that celebrates the best in newly commissioned food writing. The first of its kind in Australia this series aims to be bold and unique and to start the conversation about food in the wider community. With 20 contributors from food professionals to journalists...

2004 marks the tenth year of the Mildura Writers' Festival, an arts festival noted for its camaraderie, conviviality and hospitality. Writers, poets and cooks are all in attendance, and attend one another's sessions; they eat - or rather feast - together from breakfast to dinner and beyond;...

The Family Book is a cornucopia of entertaining activities that everyone can enjoy, packed with illustrations and diagrams. Presented as a grabbag of ideas and suggestions, it touches on all the different occasions when families can spend time together: weekday evenings, summer holidays, birthdays...

Got a craving for a cup of Italian hot chocolate? Need to pick up some fresh buffalo mozzarella? Or perhaps you're wondering where to go for the best sourdough loaf? If you answered yes to any of these questions, or simply take a lively interest in what you eat, then The Foodies' Guide to Melbourne...

On Saturday 7 February 2009, Jane and her family were sweltering through one of the hottest summer days on record, listening with concern to reports of fires sweeping through Kilmore and Wandong, 50 kilometres to their east and - according to the reports - heading south. But as the clouds of smoke loomed...

The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia's Alamo. If Gallipoli symbolised the ANZAC spirit in WWI, then Kokoda is its WWII equivalent. In August 1942 Kokoda was a killing field. Today, it is hard to imagine what those young men endured for our freedom but the journey gives some clues. The track...

A collection of twelve inspirational, provocative and insightful essays by prominent Australians on a wide range of topics including an Australian republic, the refugee issue, higher education reform, environmental sustainability and an Australian bill of rights. The theme of the book is 'positive...