Rebel Island: The incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
$49.99 AUD
Category: history
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle--and the renewed threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller tha ...Show more
The Race to Save the Romanovs - The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport
$29.99 AUD
Category: history
On the 100th Anniversary of the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, acclaimed historian Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the many international plots to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible. The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world and its aftersh ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
$49.99 AUD
Category: history
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
Our Enemies will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov
$35.00 AUD
Category: history
Pre-order the revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent ...Show more
New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle To Defend the West by David E Sanger
$45.00 AUD
Category: history
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry against the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of a half century ago. New Cold Wars--the latest from Pulitze ...Show more
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters by Brigitta Olubas (Editor); Susan Wyndham (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world. Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams and made occasi ...Show more
Led By The Nose: A Garden of Smells by Jenny Joseph
$22.99 AUD
Category: NEW non fiction
The unusual, remarkable memoir of a treasured British poet: Jenny Joseph, author of Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, presents a year in her garden - twelve months of musings, wisdom and scents
Amphibious Soul: Finding the wild in a tame world by Craig Foster
$36.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
An awe-inspiring narrative about the power of nature and our place within it, from the creator of My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker Craig Foster Amphibious Soul is the long-awaited book from naturalist, adventurer, and scientific explorer Craig Foster. This is a raw and personal memoir (told here for the f ...Show more
This Is Why You Dream by Rahul Jandial
$36.99 AUD
Category: family health self help psychology
You spend up to a third of your life dreaming.Have you ever wondered why?Dreams are a source of mystery. They have changed the course of individual lives and the world, spurring business deals, inspiring art and scientific breakthroughs, triggering military invasions and mental breakdowns. Yet the sourc ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening by Hugh Mackay
$34.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain.Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion,cultural tastes and preferences, or gender ...Show more
Growth: A Reckoning by Daniel Susskind
$36.99 AUD
Category: NEW non fiction
A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink it Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer. As a result, the unfettered pursuit of growth defines economic life around the ...Show more