Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
$34.99 AUD
Category: science environment
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies. In January 2023, ...Show more
This Is Where You Have to Go: A Heartbreaking and Powerful Story of a Mother’s Quest for Connection With Her Lost Son by Lynda Holden
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was forced. Proud Dhunghutti woman, laywer, human rights advocate and former midwife Lynda Holden tells her own heartbreaking story and of her fight for justice. In 1970, Lynda was eighteen, unmarried and p ...Show more
The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening by Hugh Mackay
$34.99 AUD
Category: family health self help psychology
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
The Dinner Table: Over 100 Writers on Food by Ella Kate; Risbridger Young
$49.99 AUD
Category: food writing, memoirs & idea | Series: Head of Zeus Anthologies Ser.
A deliciously moreish collection of the 100 finest pieces of writing on food, glorious food. In this big, beautiful anthology, award-winning writers Kate Young and Ella Risbridger present you with their ultimate fantasy dinner party. Here you'll find authors, cooks and poets from Laurie Colwin, Salman ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$36.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift by David Goodwin
$34.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
We've all filled up at a servo, but what's it like behind the counter, late at night, as a plethora of unhinged and maniacal souls totter in through the parting glass? David Goodwin worked the graveyard shift for six years in his home suburb of Werribee, and this is his hilarious and darkly mesmeric acc ...Show more
The M Word: How to thrive in menopause; fully revised and updated bestseller by Ginni Mansberg
$34.99 AUD
Category: family health self help psychology
The bestselling handbook for all peri- and menopausal women, now completely revised and updated with up-to-the-minute medical advice and endorsed by experts internationally. Fully revised and updated bestseller 'This book is a must-read for every woman over 40. It's literally life-changing.' Mia Freedma ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
Growth: A Reckoning by Daniel Susskind
$36.99 AUD
Category: economics politics business
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
Work Backwards: The Revolutionary Method To Work Smarter and Live Better by Tim Duggan
$34.99 AUD
Category: family health self help psychology
Something's about to break, and if we don't change direction soon, it's going to be us. It doesn't matter in which industry or where- too many of us are overworked, disengaged and apprehensive about the future of work. In his life-affirming new book, bestselling author and founder Tim Duggan argues that ...Show more
Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World by Tim James
$34.99 AUD
Category: science environment
We may imagine that science is a process of breakthroughs and light bulb moments. But in reality, science goes wrong 99% of the time.Almost every idea a scientist comes up with is quickly disproved by a failed experiment or rival research. Science moves at a rate of inches per decade and we like it that ...Show more
Angry at Breakfast: Ten Years of Editorials from The Saturday Paper by Erik Jensen
$26.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Some of Australia's best political writing- a dazzling chronicle from the editor of The Saturday Paper Drawn from the first ten years of The Saturday Paper, these editorials tell the story of a country in trouble. They are a penetrating account of the people who have led Australia, fusing character stu ...Show more