World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Tweedy, sharing fifty songs that changed his life, the real-life experiences behind each one, as well as what he's learned about how music and life intertwine and enhance ea ...Show more
A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return ...Show more
The Shortest History of Economics: The Powerful Story of Economic Ideas and Forces that Shape Our World by Andrew Leigh
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
'The secret of economics is that the most powerful insights come from a handful of big ideas that anyone can follow.' This small book tells a big story. From ancient times to the modern world, The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transf ...Show more
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece 'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting it fall' Martim, believing that he has committed a murde ...Show more
Between Friends by Claudia Fitzherbert (Editor)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Hotlby, written from 1920 to 1935, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship that created a model for a new kind of independent woman, after the First World War. This is a literary relationship that began when the women met at Somerville ...Show more
Compound Cinematics Akira Kurosawa and I by Shinobu Hashimoto
$27.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Any list of Japan's greatest screenplay writers would feature Shinobu Hashimoto near or at the top. This memoir, focusing on his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, a gifted scenarist in his own right, offers an indispensable insider account and invaluable insights into the unique process that is writin ...Show more
Landbridge: Life in Fragments by Y-Dang Troeung
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A brilliant, devastating memoir about the very act of writing memoir, and what it means to bear witness to atrocity Born in, and named after, Thailand's Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, Y-Dang Troeung was - aged one - the last of 60,000 Cambodian refugees admitted to Canada, fleeing her homeland in the afterma ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 2 by Philip K Dick
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'Adjustment Team' and 'The Father Thing', as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
$65.95 AUD
Category: Classics
After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon, the Greek leader. Although m ...Show more
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin - Freedom, Politics and Humanity by Kei Hiruta
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers--and the lessons their disagreements continue to offer Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) fundamentally dis ...Show more
The Foot of Clive by John Berger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From the 1972 Booker Prize-winning author comes an examination of masculinity, social covenants and murder that develops into a masterclass in humanity In the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die befor ...Show more