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Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...Show more
Dead Letters by Michael Brissenden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
A dead politician. A decades-old unsolved murder. A hornet's nest is about to be stirred. Counter terrorism expert Sid Allen knows nothing good ever comes from a phone call at 5 am. Politician Dan LeRoi, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, has been shot. Four bullets to the he ...Show more
GRANTA 153: Second Nature by SIGRID. RAUSING
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Guest-edited by Isabella Tree, author of Wilding, this nature issue touches on every continent in the world and features award-winning writers, expert scientists and activists from the frontlines of the climate crisis.
That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020 ___________________________________ 'A dreamy, impressionistic offering of reassembled fragments of memories emerging through the misty beauty of a deliciously individualistic poetic sensibility . . . remind[s] us of what has been missing from British poetry. I c ...Show more
Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, "Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul." He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Reader is the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why the two ...Show more
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A New York Times Bestseller - A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, People, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, TIME, The A.V. Club, Buzzfeed, and PopSugar"I can't believe how good this book is.... It's wholly origi ...Show more
Einstein's War by Stanley, Matthew
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story' Michael Frayn, author of Tony Award-winning Copenhagen In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German ...Show more
The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A new type of Cold War is emerging. The global order is being simultaneously shaken by climate change and the shale revolution in oil and gas. Controversial fracking technology has given America unprecedented leverage as the world's leading energy powerhouse, ahead of Saudi Arabia and Russia, upending t ...Show more
Underground Asia - Global Revolutionaries and the Overthrow of Europe's Empires in the East by Tim Harper
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The end of Europe's empires has so often been seen as a story of high politics and warfare. In Tim Harper's remarkable new book the narrative is very different: it shows how empires were fundamentally undermined from below. Using the new technology of cheap printing presses, global travel and the widesp ...Show more
JFK Volume One 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book' Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Soul of America The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth p ...Show more
Fire Flood and Plague: Australian Writers Respond to This Extraordinary Year by Sophie Cunningham ed.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a ...Show more
Life after Truth by Ceridwen Dovey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering if they've wasted their youthful opportunities. Jules, already a famous actor when she arrived on campus, is changing in mysterious ways but won't share what is ...Show more