Of Gold and Dust by Wills, Samantha
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir
All this time I thought I had a creative career and a personal life, but the truth is there is no such thing, there is only a creative life. Samantha Wills started her self-titled jewellery company at just 21-years-old on the dining room table of her share house in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. From Tu ...Show more
The Pacific: in the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill (PB) by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of peop ...Show more
The Petticoat Parade: Madam Monnier and the Roe Street Brothels by Leigh Straw
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The Petticoat Parade, a true crime biography and social history of Josie de Bray's life is the latest book from award-winning author, Leigh Straw.Josie de Bray, aka Madam Monnier, aka Marie Louise Monnier, was a brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from WWI up to the 1940s. A returned soldi ...Show more
Greg Chappell: Not Out: From India to Ball Tampering to Australian Cricket's Future by Greg Chappell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
Greg Chappell: Selector, Commentator, Coach, Talent Scout, Mentor, Cricket Legend brings his many years of experience to the fore to discuss Australia's favourite sport from all angles, including scandals, mental skills, and the future of the game. Greg Chappell's retirement as a cricketer was the conve ...Show more
The Hidden Histories of Houseplants: Fascinating Stories of Our Most-Loved Houseplants by Maddie Bailey, Alice Bailey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
The Hidden Histories of House Plants explores the world’s most common house plants, and their journeys to our homes.This book isn’t just a dry exploration of historical cultivation; the narrative explores the plants’ places in social history, art, politics, fashion and culture, showcasing the most fasci ...Show more
True to the Land: A History of Food in Australia by Paul van Reyk
$49.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals | Series: Foods and Nations Ser.
Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the first peoples and their stewardship of the land, to a present where the production and consumption of food is fraught with anxieties and competing priorities. It describes how food produ ...Show more
The Tin Ticket : The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J. Swiss
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Featuring accounts of courage, determination and endurance, The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century, and explores the lives of women arrested and sent into slavery in Australia and Tasmania. Discarded by Britain, they arrived as little more than property, but succeeded in forg ...Show more
The Colonial's Son (#4 Colonial) by Peter Watt
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
As the son of 'the Colonial', legendary Queen's Captain Ian Steele, Josiah Steele has big shoes to fill. Although his home in New South Wales is a world away, he dreams of one day travelling to England to study to be a commissioned officer in the Scottish Regiment. After cutting his teeth in business on ...Show more
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways."--New York Times Book Review. ...Show more
The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy ...Show more
Australian Falcons: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation by Stephen Debus
$49.99 AUD
Category: Plants and Animals
Falcons are stunning and iconic birds. Australia has six falcon species, with two endemic to the continent and two others endemic to the Australasian region. They are important indicators of the health of our ecosystems, due to their position at the top of the food chain. But several species are declini ...Show more