A Paper Inheritance by Dymphna Stella Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
When Dymphna Stella Rees - named after family friends Dymphna Cusack and Stella Miles Franklin - finds bundles of love letters buried in her parents' archive, she is intrigued by the discovery.Leslie Rees and Coralie Clarke Rees were a power couple of the Australian literary scene in the mid-twentieth c ...Show more
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business
Languages of Truth offers Salman Rushdie's most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us deep into his own exuberant and fearless imagination. Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our soci ...Show more
The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the frontline of Xi's new China by Michael Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
It was just after midnight when China’s notorious secret police came knocking. A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China’s notorious secret police triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith’s stint as one of Australia’s last foreign correspondents in China. After fi ...Show more
Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K’gari Dingoes by Rowena Lennox
$35.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Dingo Bold is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between people and dingoes. At its heart is Rowena Lennox's encounter with a dingo on the beach on K'gari (Fraser Island), a young male she nicknames Bold. Struck by this experience, and by the intense, often polarised opinions expressed ...Show more
The Golden Maze: A biography of Prague by Richard Fidler
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Beloved ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolu ...Show more
Spitfire: A Very British Love Story by John Nichol
$27.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
THE SUNDAY TIMES NON FICTION BESTSELLER 'The best book you will ever read about Britain's greatest warplane.' Patrick Bishop, bestselling author of Fighter Boys. 'A rich and heartfelt tribute to this most iconic British machine. By focussing on the men (and women) who flew the Spitfire, John Nic ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Ame ...Show more
Tunnel 29 - The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Reading Level: very good
He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in. It's summer, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph, a student, is digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin - dozens of men, women and children; all willing to risk everything to ...Show more
Recovery: How we can create a better, brighter future after a crisis by Andrew Wear
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment
In times of crisis lies opportunity. Recovery shows us how we can build back better after COVID-19.We have recovered from many crises in the past- war, depression, pandemic, natural disaster. Often, we've bounced back to create an even better future. The Spanish Flu was followed by the economic prosperi ...Show more
Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman
$25.99 AUD
Category: History
'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to globalized capitalism' Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeAn epic, multige ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Ficton
Follow our greatest travel writer (and rusty Mandarin speaker) along the far eastern river that separates Russia from China, the two great ex-Communist giants, taking in Mongolia, Siberia and the Sea of Japan A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writer Colin Thubron, at 79, will ...Show more
Music Is History by Questlove
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music
In Music Is History, bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past fifty years. Choosing one essential track from each year, Questlove unpacks each song's signif ...Show more