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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
The "monumental" ( Washington Post ), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before...
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's...
A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
This is a book about the making - and remaking - of a city. The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred years (1892-1992)....
Poverty, by America
$26.99 AUD
A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced...
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
We often think identity is personal. But the identities that shape the world, our struggles, and our hopes, are social ones, shared with countless others. Our sense of self is...
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner-a gripping memoir about college, motherhood, poverty,...
The Place of Tides
To save the world, we have to start somewhere One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone...
Back Roads: The Scenic Route
From the ABC Back Roads team, Australia's inspiring rural communities in splendid, vivid colour During the five years it has been appearing on our screens, ABC TV's Back Roads has...
Hope - How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thailand. He spends his days feeding, caring...
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
$26.99 AUD
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel prize-winning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind...