Lest: Australian War Myths by Mark Dapin
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
From Simpson's donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn't happen the way most people think they did. In his inimitable style, award-winning author Mark Dapin sets the record straight.Australia's war tales could be said to be the cl ...Show more
Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry by Matt Parker
36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians ...Show more
The Honeyeater by Jessie Tu
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner of the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year. 'Translation is longing. You never get it right.' Young academic and emerging translator Fay takes her mother on a package tour holiday to France to cel ...Show more
Murder in Punch Lane: Gothic crime in the laneways of 19th century Melbourne by Jane Sullivan
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Inspired by real events and people, Murder in Punch Lane is a dark and gripping crime novel that maps the sins and secrets of nineteenth-century Melbourne. Melbourne, 1868. When dazzling theatre star Marie St Denis dies in the arms of her best friend, fellow actress Lola Sanchez, everyone believes it w ...Show more
Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia's Sovereignty by Andrew Fowler
35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The spectacular fallout from Australia's duplicitous AUKUS deal Like all military acquisition programs worth billions of dollars, Australia's decision to buy a new submarine fleet was expected to be a torturous process. But no one could have predicted the trail of wreckage it left behind. From the boul ...Show more
The Odd Couple: Re-configuring the America-Australia relationship by Allan Behm
29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
America matters. Australia matters. They matter to each other. They matter to the world. Their institutional and structural alignments are deep and powerful. Americans believe in themselves. Australians believe in each other. They are mates. They are gregarious. Americans are single-minded and ambitious ...Show more
The Lyrebird Lake Ladies Choir by Sandie Docker
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sisters Eleanor and Maggie have been running the Lyrebird Lake Ladies' Choir for many years. The choir meets every week in the sisters' stately federation house on the lake's edge and means so much to the women who have found their 'home' there over the years.But the house itself is in desperate need of ...Show more
Fragile Creatures: A Memoir by Khin Myint
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Khin's sister Theda has a strange illness. Her doctor thinks it's purely physical, and so does she, but Khin is not so sure. He knows what they both went through growing up in Perth - it wasn't welcoming back then for a Burmese-Australian family. With Theda's condition getting worse, Khin heads off to t ...Show more
Edenhope by Louise Le Nay
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The warm, heroic story of a grandmother's determination to save her family from themselves. Marnie is sixty-three and downwardly mobile. Her middle-class marriage is long gone, her only child more or less estranged. She's living in a granny flat behind a stranger's house. Still, things could be worse. S ...Show more
Living Hot: Surviving and Thriving on a Heating Planet by Clive Hamilton, George Wilkenfeld
27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Living Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making Australia resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of the best of what we have, build stronger and fairer com ...Show more
Every Last Suspect by Nicola Moriarty
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Who killed Harriet? The unputdownable new thriller from the bestselling author of You Need to Know. Complicated, driven, loving. Manipulative, irresistible, monstrous. Whether you love or hate her, Harriet Osman is impossible to say no to. But someone in her life has finally snapped, and as Harriet lie ...Show more
Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 94 by Joëlle Gergis
27.99 AUD
Category: Magazines & Newspapers
What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia? Australia is in peril. Do we truly grasp the impact of a warming planet - in particular, what it will mean for the sunburnt country? This searing essay by a leading climate scientist takes aim at the folly of "adaptation" ...Show more