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The Eastern Curlew
Harry Saddler
$29.99Every year around August, large flocks of Eastern Curlews leave their breeding grounds in the Arctic and embark on a perilous 10,000km journey to the coast of Australia. It's a journey they have taken for tens of thousands of years, tracing invisible ... read more
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The Mess We're In
Bernard Keane
$32.99A tide of populism and xenophobia is sweeping the western world. Disillusioned voters are turning to political outsiders and increasingly rejecting the liberal economic solutions of out-of-touch elites. Despite having access to more information than ... read more
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The Pacific
Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
$39.99In the 250th anniversary year of James Cook's first voyage Sam Neil retraces his journey through the Pacific Ocean. Before Cook, the Pacific was disconnected from the power and ideas of Europe, Asia and America. In the wake of Cook, everything change ... read more
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The Rapids
Sam Twyford-moore
$32.99Writing and mental illness make companionable bedfellows, for better or worse. The Rapids is Twford Smith's personal memoir of manic depression, peppered with his family history and with film and literary criticism. With reflections on artists s ... read more
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The Unpunished Vice
Edmund White
$29.99Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a compendium of all the ways reading has shaped White's life and work. His literary friendships provide some interesting insights in to the lives of authors such as Michael Onda ... read more
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Too Much Lip
Melissa Lucashenko
$29.95Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things - her hometown and prison. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley. Kerry plans to spend twenty-four hours, tops, over ... read more
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Tyrant: Shakespeare On Power
Stephen Greenblatt
$37.99As an ageing, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social and psychological roots and the twisted consequences of tyranny. What he discovered in his characters remains remarkably relevant today. In Tyranny Stephen Gr ... read more
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Wild Land
Peter & Beverly Pickford
$80.00Four years in the making, Wild Land is an epic and unprecedented portrait of some of the most untouched parts of our planet. The Pickford's book comes as a labour of love and as an urgent message that we need to preserve and protect these places for ... read more
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Eye of the Shoal
Helen Scales
$29.99Seventy per cent of the earth's surface is covered by water. This vast aquatic realm is inhabited by a multitude of strange creatures but reigning supreme among them are the fish. And yet the mesmerising and complex lives of fish remain largely under ... read more
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Football Solution
George Megalogenis
$32.99George Megalogenis reveals how football has been shaped by the nation that invented it and how the game we love, in turn, might help resolve Australia's political impasse. At a time when politics is increasingly conducted like sports - full of one-ey ... read more
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Grace
Paul Lynch
$19.99Early one October morning, Grace's mother wakes her and brutally cuts off her hair, declaring, You are the strong one now'. With winter close at hand and Ireland already suffering, Grace is no longer safe at home. And so her mother outfits Grace in m ... read more
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Leather Soul: A Half-back Flanker's Rhythm and Blues
Bob Murphy
$39.99Bob Murphy has never been a typical footballer. Music buff, Age columnist and Winnebago driver, he is as comfortable in a quiet corner of a Fitzroy cafe or the front bar of a grungy pub as he is in the locker room. In Leather Soul Murphy takes us thr ... read more
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On Indignation
Don Watson
$14.99Exploring indignation through generations of his family and their Old Testament rages Watson asks why wounded pride or a sense of injustice unleashes this fury and whether there is ever virtue in it. In an updated version for our post-truth world Wat ... read more
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Our Life in the Forest
Marie Darrieussecq
$27.99In the near future, a woman is writing in the depths of a forest. She's cold. Her body is falling apart, as is the world around her. Before, in the city, she was a psychotherapist, travelling every two weeks to the Rest Centre, to visit her 'half', M ... read more
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Prague Spring
Simon Mawer
$32.99In the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter, two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe and decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where Alexander Dubcek's "socialism with ... read more
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Rendezvous with Oblivion
Thomas Frank
$27.99Rendezvous with Oblivion is a collection of interlocking essays examining how inequality has manifested itself in US cities, in its jobs, in the way its people travel, and, of course, in its politics - where, in 2016, millions of anxious, ordina ... read more
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