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Umami by Laia Jufresa; Sophie Hughes (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Shortlisted for the Best Translated Fiction Book Award, 2017 "Ms. Jufresa: Where the f*#! did you learn to tell a story so well?" --Álvaro Enrigue, award-winning author ofSudden Death As heard on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon It started with a drowning. Deep in the heart of Mexico City, whe ...Show more
Understanding Almost Nothing of the World by James Hughes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: SW Smalls Ser.
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans. Charting Venus's origins in p ...Show more
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans.Charting Venus's origins in pow ...Show more
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians, author of The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton and George Eliot: The Last Victorian. Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larg ...Show more
Visual Encyclopedia of Space by Kerrod Robyn, Hughes David
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science
The Visual Encyclopedia of Space is the essential reference guide to space science and astronomy, with fantastic double-page spreads that go into each topic in depth. Find out how stars are born and how to measure their distance apart. Discover which is the biggest planet, and view all the latest inform ...Show more
Walking the Dog by David Hughes
$59.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
Approaching fifty, and warned by his doctor that he's drinking too much and needs to take more exercise, David Hughes is given a dog for his birthday - Dexter, a wire-haired fox terrier. Hughes' daily walks with Dexter form the spine of "Walking the Dog". We eavesdrop on their encounters with fellow dog ...Show more
What Is the Truth? (Collected Animal Poems #2) by Ted Hughes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains 'a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment ...Show more
What Went Wrong, Gordon Brown? How the Dream Job Turned Sour by Colin Hughes
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Gordon Brown is one of the most influential politicians of the past thirty years. In opposition, he was the strategic driving force behind New Labour. In Government, he was one of Britain's most intellectually assured Chancellors, widely respected on the global stage, domestically dominant. Within his o ...Show more
Who Owns the Wind?: Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy by David McDermott Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The energy transition has begun. To succeed to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar power that process must be fair. Otherwise, mounting popular protest against wind farms will prolong carbon pollution and deepen the climate crisis. David Hughes examines that anti-industrial, anti-corporate resistan ...Show more
Woodworm by Layla Martinez; Sophie Hughes (Translator); Annie McDermott (Translator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A dazzling horror-tinged debut novel from Spain set in a house haunted by shadows of the dead, for fans of Mariana Enriquez, Fernanda Melchor and Ottessa Moshfegh The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. 'A house of women and shadows built from poetry and revenge' Mariana Enriquez The ...Show more
XX - A Novel, Graphic by Rian Hughes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
'Extraordinary imagination . . . As the book races towards a mindboggling climax it leads the reader to some remarkable ideas about the nature of life, the universe and everything. Simply stunning.' - Big Issue At Jodrell Bank a mysterious signal of extraterrestrial origin has been detected. Artificial ...Show more