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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
$29.99On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born - a history whose e ... read more
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Orange World
Karen Russell
$32.99Karen Russell's comedic genius and talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives are on display in these exuberant, mesmerising stories. In 'The Bad Graft', a couple on a road trip stop in Joshua Tree National Park ... read more
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Out of Our Minds
Felipe Fernandez-armesto
$32.99To imagine, to see that which is not there is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in our minds ... read more
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Stand By Me
Wendell Berry
$22.99On a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a hundred years later, her great-grandson Andy climbs a hill at the edge of town, and is flooded with memories of all he has lived, seen and ... read more
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Thomas Cromwell: A life
Diarmaid Macculloch
$26.99Diarmaid MacCulloch's biography of this elusive figure is a masterclass in historical detective work. It draws together national and international events, and reveals the channels through which so much of power in early Tudor England flowed. It overt ... read more
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Three Women
Lisa Taddeo
$32.99All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her?
All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pa ... read more-
Xi Jinping: The Backlash
Richard Mcgregor
$12.99Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from ... read more
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Yield
Tara June Winch
$32.99The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things- baayanha. Knowing that he will soon di ... read more
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Attention Seeking
Adam Phillips
$16.99'Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting- on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity ... read more
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Australia's Original Languages
R. M. W. Dixon
$32.99When Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay, about 250 distinct languages were spoken across the continent. Bob Dixon has been working with elders to research Australian languages for half a century, and he draws on this deep experience to outline the co ... read more
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Constant Hum
Alice Bishop
$29.99Before the bushfires, before the front of flames comes roaring over the hills, the ridges are thick with gums. After the fires, the birds have gone. There is only grey ash and melted metal, the blackened husks of cars. And the lost people- in tempora ... read more
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History of Philosophy
A C Grayling
$32.99The story of philosophy is an epic tale - an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. With clarity and elegance A. C. Grayling takes the reader from the world-views and moralities before the ... read more
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Mirka Mora: A Life of Making Art
Sabine Cotte
$49.99Mirka Mora, along with her ex-husband Georges, was instrumental in helping to establish Australian modern art on a global stage. She was integral in reviving the meetings of the Contemporary Artists Society, whose members included friends John Percev ... read more
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My Seditious Heart
Arundhati Roy
$65.00My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment. Taken together, the essay ... read more
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Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
$32.99In Nickel Boys Whitehead dramatises a strand of United States history, through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school in Jim-Crow-era Florida. Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is ... read more
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Novacene
James Lovelock
$29.99James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis, argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an end. A new age - the novacene - has already begun. New beings will emerge ... read more
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