Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss by Rachel Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It brought me often to laughter and - several times - to tears. It sings with joy and kindness' Robert MacfarlaneFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and ...Show more
The Mighty 747: Australia's Queen of the Skies by Jim Eames
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The world's most iconic commercial aircraft, the Boeing 747, and its Australian story. 'We have decided we must have the 747.' - Bert Ritchie, Qantas Chief Executive, 1967 From its first Qantas flight in 1971, the Boeing 747 brought millions of people to Australia, overseas for work, back to their homel ...Show more
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar ( ...Show more
The World (HB) by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a fresh and original history of humanity, unlike any previous world history: it uses family, the one thing all humans have in common, to tell the story. It is genuinely global, spanning all eras and all continents, from the perspective of places as diverse as Hait ...Show more
Papyrus - The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity's obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages - from one of Spain's most celebrated authors. Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand-copied on reeds pulled from th ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
"With a foreword by Richard Flanagan Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize 'A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people' —Tim Flannery Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a k ...Show more
Good Girl, Bad Girl: Cyrus Haven Book 1 by Michael Robotham
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Cyrus Haven Ser.
From the bestselling author of The Secrets She Keeps, the writer Stephen King calls "an absolute master...with heart and soul," a fiendishly clever suspense novel about a dangerous young woman with a special ability to know when someone is lying--and the criminal psychologist who must outwit her to surv ...Show more
27 Letters to My Daughter by Ella Ward
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
When death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter. Ella Ward comes from a long line of irrepressibly charmin ...Show more
Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History by Eliza Reilly
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never taught about in school and who deserve to be printed on our money, goddamn it! It's been said that 'well-behaved women seldom make history', but the handful of white boys who wrote our history books convenie ...Show more
Mary Ann and Captain Piper: The remarkable true story of the convicts' daughter who became the toast of colonial Sydney by Jessica North
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The fascinating story of the daughter of First Fleet convicts who managed to overcome her humble origins to become the mistress of the grandest home in colonial Sydney. 'An astonishing story of lust and love in early colonial Australia, shocking, entrancing and utterly enthralling.' - Sue Williams, aut ...Show more
Invisible Child - Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City by Andrea Elliott
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty and racism in an unequal America. Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, ...Show more
How We Love: Notes on a life by Clementine Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mothe ...Show more