Taste - My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and irresistible memoir of life in and out of the kitchen Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, and the perfect Negroni, he grew up in an Italian American family that spent ev ...Show more
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business
From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us nowWhen the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they coul ...Show more
It Wasn't Meant to Be Like This by Lisa Wilkinson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The long-awaited autobiography from one of Australia's most popular, much-loved and enduring media stars, Lisa Wilkinson. Lisa Wilkinson has lived her life in the public eye. One of Australia's most admired and respected journalists and media personalities, her warm, intelligent and elegant presence has ...Show more
What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths by Sharri Markson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia. MORE THAN 109 MILLION INFECTIONS MORE THAN 2.7 MILLION DEATHS HOW DID IT HAPPEN? The origins of COVID-19 are shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theori ...Show more
Living Planet by David Attenborough
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt t ...Show more
The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life (without the boring bits) by Paul Hogan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Paul Hogan first appeared on Australia's screens in 1971 as a 'tap-dancing knife thrower' on TV talent show New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger from Granville did it as a dare, but when the network's switchboard lit up, he was invited back. So popular was he with viewers, ...Show more
Your Head is a Houseboat: A Chaotic Guide to Mental Clarity by Campbell Walker
$27.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Your Head is a Houseboat is uniquely hilarious guide to what goes on in your brain, from illustration sensation Campbell Walker aka Struthless. The only truth we really know is that we're going to spend the rest of our lives in our own houseboat (our head) so it makes sense to make that houseboat as go ...Show more
Proust and the Squid : The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
$25.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
"Proust and the Squid" was in "Publishers Weekly's"'Best Books of 2007' - described as 'a pathbreaking look at the reading brain'.How the brain learned to read is a startling reminder of the amazing achievements of humankind.'We were never born to read', says Maryanne Wolf. 'No specific genes ever dicta ...Show more
1001 Ideas That Changed The Way We Think by Robert Arp
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Fully updated for 2021, 1001 Ideas That Changed The Way We Think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the finest minds in history.
Japan - The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago by Mark Brazil
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Wildlife Explorer Guides
A comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to Japan's astonishing animals and plants--and the natural forces that have shaped them This richly illustrated guide is the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary natural history of the Japanese archipelago. It explains how Jap ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals TVTI by Gerald Durrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. This tv tie in edition coincides with ITV's six part television series The Durrells. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell fam ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
$35.99 AUD
Category: Environment
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more