This festive season, start and end your Christmas shopping at a bookstore, where you'll find budget-friendly gifts for everyone on your list. To make things extra simple, we've compiled a guide of our most gift-able titles that are sure to draw some envy on Christmas day.
For the travel enthusiast
From the author of The Paris Cooking School comes a captivating story of loss and love, romance and revelations – and the pleasures of a secret Paris garden.
Travel beyond brochures and Instagram recommendations with The Intrepid List, a collection of more than 100 unique and enthralling travel experiences from around the globe. Don't be fooled, this is not your usual bucket list travel guide, but a celebration of cultures and places and a guide to travelling more sustainably.
For those who love a celebrity memoir
This is Kasey Chambers at her most heartfelt and honest. From her childhood in the Australian outback to the heights of her chart-topping international success as a singer/songwriter, Kasey has trusted her gut, stuck to her values and learned some hard truths, always while trying to live by the best advice she’s ever received: just don’t be a dickhead.
Michelle Brasier has been contemplating how best to live her life since her dad died of cancer, then her brother, and she was told there’s a high chance she’ll get it too. She’s only young (oh my god so young, and such great skin) but she has been through a lot and it’s taught her to live each day like it’s her last – because it just might be. Heartbreaking and hilarious, My Brother’s Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag moves between grief and joy, reminding us that life’s too short to be taken seriously.
For the footy fans out there, discover what has made Tom Hawkins the star player he is, and meet all of the people who have been part of his journey including players, coaches and family in Tom Hawkins: An Autobiography. Tom's story is rich with events, people and the development of a winning attitude that has been his mainstay.
For the home chefs, seasoned and budding
Level up your wok game with Masterchef winner, Diana Chan. Featuring over 80 deliciously approachable recipes that celebrate Diana Chan's Chinese-Malaysian heritage, Golden Wok is a one-way ticket to mastering the wok and a gateway to a whole world of extraordinary cooking.
This is a party you don't want to miss. Shannon Martinez is back with over 100 delicious recipes for comforting classics and modern entertaining that will bring Italy into your kitchen at home. Vegan food has never looked or tasted so sexy.
Australia's favourite TV chef, Adam Liaw, returns with Time For Dinner, your guide to cooking smarter, faster and better. Each chapter in Time for Dinner focuses on how you can shrink the time you spend getting dinner on the table, from clever pasta dishes made in the amount of time it takes you to boil the pasta, to traybakes and one-pot wonders that will save you time washing up, to meals that cut your chopping and shopping times to the minimum.
For those who use 'Skibidi' regularly
This is a page-turner good enough to pry even the most difficult children off their phones.
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 …
There is no language more universal than dance. Come Together Again teaches young readers about the integral role music and performance have played in 60,000 years of First Nations history and culture. Learn about the yidaki (didgeridoo) and how it makes its sounds or how leaves can whistle.