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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

$26.99 AUD
The beautiful and moving follow-up to the acclaimed Cider with Rosie 'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool,...
Taste: My Life Through Food

Taste: My Life Through Food

$26.99 AUD
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and irresistible memoir of life in and out of the kitchen Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with...
Raising Demons

Raising Demons

$26.99 AUD
In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet- her children Shirley Jackson skewered the trials...
The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie Kay, New Statesman I would never have chosen this path, but...
Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more

Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane

$26.99 AUD
The top 10 Sunday Times bestseller - a celebration of love in all its forms After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set...
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

$26.99 AUD
The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback 'Insistently asks the question- What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic...
The Wild Silence

The Wild Silence

$26.99 AUD
The second instalment to the hugely successful Costa prize shortlister, The Salt Path, and the continued, powerful true story of the couple who lost everything Nature holds the answers for...
Personal Writings

Personal Writings

$26.99 AUD
A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side, Nuptials and Summer This volume contains some of Camus' most intimate...
Life Among the Savages

Life Among the Savages

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
From the queen of domestic horror, this is a masterpiece of domestic comedy Shirley Jackson's 1953 classic about life with her husband and four children in rural Vermont is one...
The Wisdom of Wolves: How Wolves Can Teach Us To Be More Human

The Wisdom of Wolves: How Wolves Can Teach Us To Be More Human

$26.99 AUD
What wolves can teach us about being human Love your family, care for your those around you, never give up and always find time to have fun - these are...
Silence: In the Age of Noise

Silence: In the Age of Noise

$26.99 AUD
From the Norwegian explorer, a stunning meditation on the power of silence and how to shut out the world Behind a cacophony of traffic noise, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning...
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

$26.99 AUD
For the first time, the phenomenal bestselling literary memoir will be published in Penguin Modern Classics Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight...
The Art of Flight

The Art of Flight

$26.99 AUD
Two more tales of memory, nature, travel and collecting from the author of the Swedish bestseller The Fly Trap Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why....
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

$26.99 AUD
Written by a Communist insider, a candid portrait of one of the most dangerous men in history This extraordinarily vivid and unnerving book three meetings held with Stalin during and...
Hell's Angels

Hell's Angels

$26.99 AUD
We're the one percenters, man - the one percent that don't fit in and don't care. 'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ... the...
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner

H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel

$26.99 AUD
**WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR** **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** **WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE TRANGER** 'Dazzling... Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and...
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

$26.99 AUD
The first, fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer 'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional' A compelling mediation on the power of running and a fascinating insight...
Is That You, Ruthie?: First Nations Classics

Is That You, Ruthie?: First Nations Classics

$19.99 AUD$16.99 AUD
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Jackie Huggins, Is That You, Ruthie? is a remarkable memoir that recounts, with characteristic humour and honesty, a...
The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell

The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell

$19.99 AUD$16.99 AUD
The profoundly wise and humane account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin...
Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London

$16.99 AUD$14.44 AUD
Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for his great works 'You have talked so often of going to...
We Of The Never-Never

We Of The Never-Never

$14.99 AUD$12.74 AUD
A special Vintage Classics edition of the beloved Australian bestseller In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to...
Aunts Up the Cross

Aunts Up the Cross

$14.95 AUD$12.71 AUD
My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was travelling very slowly in the right direction and could hardly have...
Bookshop Dogs

Bookshop Dogs

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many...
Uses for Obsession: A Chef's Memoir

Uses for Obsession: A Chef's Memoir

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
'Deeply thoughtful, unflinchingly honest and heartwarmingly original. Ben's unique creativity is clearly not limited to Attica.' Hamish Blake 'Powerful, vulnerable, intense, full of love and some darkness too.' Matty Matheson,...
Andaza: A Memoir of Food, Flavour and Freedom in the Pakistani Kitchen

Andaza: A Memoir of Food, Flavour and Freedom in the Pakistani Kitchen

$49.99 AUD$42.49 AUD
'[Sumayya Usmani is] the go-to expert in Pakistani cuisine' - BBC Good Food Magazine 'Sumayya Usmani is a brilliant storyteller. She transports us with her delicious descriptions of the smells...
Exteriors - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Exteriors - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books -...
A Girl's Story - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A Girl's Story - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
In A Girl's Story , her latest book, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she...
Getting Lost - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Getting Lost - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attache to the...
I Remain in Darkness - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

I Remain in Darkness - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile,...
The Art of Not Eating: A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire

The Art of Not Eating: A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
A luminously original exploration of the deep roots of diet culture by an award-winning historian'A courageous and beautifully written exploration of a vitally important subject' The Herald'Fascinating' Katherine May'These books...
The Use of Photography

The Use of Photography

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
The Use of Photographyrecounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive...
A Woman's Story - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A Woman's Story - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite...
I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture

I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture

$19.99 AUD$16.99 AUD
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her...
Shame - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Shame - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
'My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June,in the early afternoon.' Thus begins Shame , the probingstory of the twelve-year-old girl who will become AnnieErnaux, and the...
A Very Easy Death

A Very Easy Death

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death 'shows the power of compassion when it...
I Will Come Back for You: The undercover Jewish commando who helped defeat the Nazis

I Will Come Back for You: The undercover Jewish commando who helped defeat the Nazis

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe 'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph A gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and...
I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: By the daughter of Gisele Pelicot: Turning our family trauma of Chemical Submission into a collective fight

I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: By the daughter of Gisele Pelicot: Turning our family trauma of Chemical Submission into a collective fight

$32.99 AUD$28.04 AUD
The trial of Dominique Pelicot, which began on 2 September 2024, has captured the world's attention. Behind the haunting details of Pelicot's unthinkable crimes are a mother and daughter who...
Forged in Fire: An Australian commando's story of life and death on the frontline

Forged in Fire: An Australian commando's story of life and death on the frontline

$36.99 AUD$31.44 AUD
'Prepare to be riveted by this extraordinary account from one of Australia's elite warriors. His firsthand experiences vividly recounted offer an unparalleled glimpse into the courage, strategy, and sacrifice required...
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an all-night runner

Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an all-night runner

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
'[Karnazes'] spirited memoir . . . can help mere mortals who want to push past their perceived limits or simply jump-start their sedentary lives.' - Chicago Tribune In this updated...
Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop

Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' -John Silvester, Crime Reporter for The...
The Shipwreck Hunter: A lifetime of extraordinary discovery and adventure in the deep seas

The Shipwreck Hunter: A lifetime of extraordinary discovery and adventure in the deep seas

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
'The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narrative by David Mearns, a true expert on the mysteries of...
My Roman Year: From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name

My Roman Year: From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'There is a warmth and a humanity in Aciman's prose that enraptures with its slow, easy embrace.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Aciman's evocation...
Waging Peace: Reflections on Peace and War From an Unconventional Woman

Waging Peace: Reflections on Peace and War From an Unconventional Woman

$36.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Fifty Miles Wide: Cycling Through Israel and Palestine

Fifty Miles Wide: Cycling Through Israel and Palestine

$26.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR"Sayarer's thoughtful, meditative travelogue feels very important . . . [An] exploration of how people persevere...
The Little Book of Palmistry: Predict your future in the lines of your palms

The Little Book of Palmistry: Predict your future in the lines of your

$17.99 AUD$14.39 AUD
Predict your future, reveal your past and understand your personality, talents and secrets with the art of chiromancy.Palmistry is not just about the lines on the hands, but the hand...
In Search of Perfumes: A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents

In Search of Perfumes: A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
'[An] immersive debut... with detailed accounts of his trips and vivid descriptions of the scents ... [Roques'] rich travelogue will transport readers' Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)In Search of Perfumes is...
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

$49.99 AUD$39.99 AUD
'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The TimesThe entire world knows...
Little Book of Seoul Style: The Fashion Story of the Iconic City

Little Book of Seoul Style: The Fashion Story of the Iconic City

$29.99 AUD$23.99 AUD
Fashion rules supreme in Korea with Seoul fast gaining its reputation as East Asia's leading style capital. From hanbok to hallyu, understated to experimental, and streetwear to high-end couture, Little...