Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The official biography of the award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate. 'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.' At the time of his death in 201 ...Show more
Spell Of The Sensuous: Perceptions by David Abram
$27.99 AUD
Category: Environment
David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception a ...Show more
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason by Lee McIntyre
$37.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus truthers, and others. Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus. Vaccines are bad for you. These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They ...Show more
Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea by Edith Widder
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
An exhilarating underwater exploration for readers wanting to recapture their sense of wonder Edith Widder grew up wanting to become a marine biologist. But after complications from surgery caused her to go temporarily blind while at university, she became fascinated by light, and her focus turned to bi ...Show more
Desert Solitaire: A Season In The Wilderness [50th Anniversary Edition] by Edward Abbey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'My favourite book about the wilderness' Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service. Living out of a trailer, Abbey capt ...Show more
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ...Show more
The Leaf Supply Guide to Creating Your Indoor Jungle by Lauren Camilleri, Sophia Kaplan
$52.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
This book is a luxurious guide to creating the very densest of jungles in your living room. It's time to finally turn that thumb green. With this stunningly photographed greenery guide, anyone can master the art of making your living room thrive. When done correctly, curating any decent houseplant can b ...Show more
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A bold and lyrical novel about memory, love, a swimming pool - and the many ways we lose and find each other again. From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the AtticUp above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, ...Show more
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Reading Level: good-very good
Marie Kondo will help you declutter your life with her new major Netflix series Organise the World with Marie Kondo, coming soonTransform your home into a permanently clear and clutter-free space with the incredible KonMari Method. Japan's expert declutterer and professional cleaner Marie Kondo will hel ...Show more
The Gap: A paramedic's summer on the edge by Benjamin Gilmour
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this riveting memoir, Gilmour recounts the call-outs that summer- some dangerous, some gruesome, some downright ridiculous. And we meet fellow paramedic John who, they say, can get a laugh out of everyone except the dead. As the city heats up that summer, however, even John begins to lose his sense o ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms (HB) by Richard Fidler
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan - a tenth-century Arab diplomat who travelled a ...Show more
Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul; Lowitja O'Donoghue
$48.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more