Name That Flower - The Identification of Flowering Plants by Ian Clarke, Helen Lee
$39.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
This is a bestselling source of information on how to go about identifying flowering plants. The dissection of flowers, the methods of observing their structure, and the application of these to identification are clearly described.Profusely illustrated with over 130 detailed line drawings and black and ...Show more
The Millionaire Castaway by David Glasheen with Neil Bramwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Dave Glasheen’s life began spiralling out of control after he lost his family’s vast fortune in the stock market crash of 1987. After a series of catastrophes, he needed to take drastic measures to restore himself. Opting out of the rat race, he cast himself away to a deserted island off the north-east ...Show more
Remembering Bob by Sue Pieters-Hawke (Editor); Louise Swinn (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Bob Hawke's death in May 2019 sparked national mourning across the country as we remembered just how important Bob had been in the shaping of modern Australia. In an age when political personas have become increasingly formulaic and predictable, Bob was a man of glorious contradictions. He was a Rhodes ...Show more
Calypso by David Sedaris
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you ...Show more
The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country by Adam Courtenay
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasJust after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five ...Show more
The Long Road Home by Fiona McCallum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
You can't find where you truly belong until you discover who you really are... Alice Hamilton is enjoying her new life in Ballarat with the freedom to explore her future now she's stepped away from the constraints of her upbringing. She's learnt the hard way that knowledge is power, and is looking forwa ...Show more
A Treacherous Country (Winner 2020 Australian Vogel's Literary Award) by K. M. Kruimink
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL'S LITERARY AWARD There is a woman, somewhere, here, in Van Diemen's Land, unless she had died or otherwise departed, called Maryanne Maginn. Gabriel Fox, the young son of an old English house, arrives in a land both ancient and new. Drawn by the promise of his heart's de ...Show more
Ten Rogues: The unlikely story of convict schemers, a stolen brig and an escape from Van Diemen's Land to Chile by Peter Grose
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale. It has everything: defiance of authority, treachery, piracy and mutiny, escape from the hangman's noose and even love. Peopled with good men, buffoons, ...Show more
A Field Guide to Insects of Australia: Fourth Edition by Paul Ross; Zborowski Storey
$42.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Whether you're an amateur insect enthusiast, a student or an entomologist, this completely revised new edition of A Field Guide to Insects in Australia will help you to identify insects from all the major groups. With more photographs, species and up to date information, it will enable you to differenti ...Show more
Vodka and Apple Juice - Travels of an Undiplomatic Wife in Poland by Jay Martin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
When Jay's husband lands a diplomatic job in Warsaw, she jumps at the chance to escape a predictable life in Canberra for adventure in the heart of central Europe. From glamorous cocktail parties and dining with presidents, to snowy sleigh rides and drinking vodka in smoky bars, Jay is thrown into all t ...Show more
Amazing Mrs Livesey: The Remarkable Story of Australia's Greatest Imposter by Freda Marnie Nicholls
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
Ethel Livesey was quite a gal...An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, she had over 40 aliases, eight official marriages, four children and five divorces. Her story stretches from industrial England to the French Riviera, from Ireland to New York, Shanghai, New Z ...Show more