Complete Atlas of the World: The Definitive View of the Earth by Dorling Kindersley
$100.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
See Earth in ten times more detail than ever before from Antarctica to Korea, discover the Earth continent by continent with 102 detailed maps and cross the globe from your armchair. Get the low down on 193 independent states with up-to-the-minute geopolitical facts, and find your spot fast with the eas ...Show more
The Paper House by Carlos Maria Dominguez
$32.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Bluma Lennon, a Cambridge academic who had just acquired a copy of a book, is knocked down and killed at a crossroad. Intrigued by his death, his colleague begins an investigation which will take him on a journey from Cambridge to Buenos Aires and across the River Plate to Montevideo as he hunts for clu ...Show more
On Trying to Keep Still by Jenny Diski
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Jenny Diski's attempt to keep still and mentally idle resulted in a year in which she travelled to New Zealand, spent two months almost alone in a cottage in the country and visited the Sami people of Lapland. Montaigne was alarmed to discover that by staying still his mind 'bolted off like a runaway ho ...Show more
A Light History Of Hot Air by Peter Doherty
$32.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Peter Doherty's A Light History of Hot Air is a wide-ranging meditation on the theme of heat and heating. An atmospheric pleasure of a book about the world we live in.
The Last Revolution : 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World by Patrick Dillon
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The last successful invasion of England; mobs burning Catholic chapels; one king, James, driven from his palace by night while another, William, rode in at the head of a foreign army; and the events of winter 1688 were among the most dramatic in our history. The settlement which followed would place Eng ...Show more
The Complete Book of Mothers-in-law: A celebration by Luisa Dillner
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Most of us either have a mother-in-law or will be one, and it's not a role most women take on gladly. Mothers-in-law are traditionally the butt of jokes, declared to be nasty, possessive and interfering - but are they really as bad as this reputation suggests? Luisa Dillner looks beyond the stereotype o ...Show more
Apology for the Woman Writing by Jenny Diski
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in order to show her devotion. He made her his adopted daughte ...Show more
The Coffee Book by Gregory Dicum
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A freshly updated edition of the best introduction to one of the world's most popular products, The Coffee Book is jammed full of facts, figures, cartoons, and commentary covering coffee from its first use in Ethiopia in the sixth century to the rise of Starbucks and the emergence of Fair Trade coffee i ...Show more
Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy by John Patrick Diggins
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during ...Show more
Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
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Category: New Hardbacks
Three young people, born thousands of miles apart, each cut themselves adrift from their birthplaces and set out to discover what - or who - might anchor them in their lives. Over the course of the next ten years, Noah, Joyce, and an unnamed narrator will each settle for a time in Montreal, their paths ...Show more
A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS BO by DICKENS CHARLES
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks Ser.
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has grippe ...Show more