Current Featured Books

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Nhum:  Recipes from a Cambodian Kitchen

Nhum: Recipes from a Cambodian Kitchen

$39.95 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Chef Nak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: "Nhum" means "eat" in Khmer, the language of Cambodia. If you follow the 80 recipes in the Nhum cookbook, you'll be eating...
Dada: The Revolt of Art

Dada: The Revolt of Art

$17.99 AUD$8.00 AUD
Author: Marc DachyFormat: Paperback, 125mm x 177mm, 210g, 128 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2006The word 'Dada' was chosen at random by a group of young artists and...
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

$55.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Mick Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it...
The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk

The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Sverker Johansson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 "A model of popular-science writing" STEVEN POOLE "I love a book that teaches me things I didn't know while provoking in...
In the Crypt with a Candlestick: 'An irresistible champagne bubble of pleasure and laughter' Rachel Johnson

In the Crypt with a Candlestick: 'An irresistible champagne bubble of pleasure and laughter' Rachel Johnson

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Daisy WaughFormat: Paperback, 124mm x 196mm, 220g, 304 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT AWARD'Sharp, funny . . . the best...
Hitler's Spies: Lena and the Prelude to Operation Sealion

Hitler's Spies: Lena and the Prelude to Operation Sealion

$75.00 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Mel Kavanagh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 September 1940: Britain stands alone against the might of the advancing German Army and the spectre of invasion looms. Using a...
The Royal Librarian

The Royal Librarian

$32.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Daisy WoodFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 270g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations... Windsor, 1940: Secretly...
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future

Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Tracey Spicer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made aims to open readers' eyes to a transformative technological...
The Last Hours in Paris: A powerful, moving and redemptive story of wartime love and sacrifice for fans of historical fiction

The Last Hours in Paris: A powerful, moving and redemptive story of wartime love and sacrifice for fans of historical fiction

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Ruth Druart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 War brings them together. Will liberation tear them apart? 'A wonderful book. A heartbreaking story of the power of love and...
Diamonds Everywhere: Awe-inspiring astronomy discoveries

Diamonds Everywhere: Awe-inspiring astronomy discoveries

$37.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Tom Kerss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Answers to the mysteries of the cosmos for inquiring minds. Explore the entire cosmos in 101 fascinating topics - from mind-blowing...
Nature Is Never Silent: how animals and plants communicate with each other

Nature Is Never Silent: how animals and plants communicate with each other

$15.00 AUD
Author: Madlen ZiegeFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 240 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2021For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world...
Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World

Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Jerry Brotton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the...
FOOTBALL: Designing the Beautiful Game

FOOTBALL: Designing the Beautiful Game

$70.00 AUD$35.00 AUD
Author: Eleanor WatsonFormat: Hardback, 205mm x 270mm, 1340g, 304 pagesPublished: Design Museum, United Kingdom, 2022This book - the first of its kind - explores the design story behind football, diving...
The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars - A Times Best Art Book of 2022

The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars - A Times Best Art Book of 2022

$70.00 AUD$35.00 AUD
Author: Frances SpaldingFormat: Hardback, 186mm x 246mm, 1400g, 384 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022The Times and Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 'Superb ... Spalding is...
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

$20.00 AUD
Author: Juan Jose MillasFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 224 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2022A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to...
The Three Dahlias: 'An absolute treat of a read with all the ingredients of a vintage murder mystery' Janice Hallett

The Three Dahlias: 'An absolute treat of a read with all the ingredients of a vintage murder mystery' Janice Hallett

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Katy Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'An absolute treat of a read with all the ingredients of a vintage murder mystery: a country house, mysterious dead bodies...
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

$55.00 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Andrew Pettegree Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are...
The Joy of Chocolate: Recipes and Stories from the Wonderful World of the Cacao Bean

The Joy of Chocolate: Recipes and Stories from the Wonderful World of the Cacao Bean

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Paul A. Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Bring the joy of chocolate into your home with fascinating stories, tantalising treats and irresistible creations devised by a world-class...
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination

Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination

$60.00 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Glyn MorganFormat: Hardback, 210mm x 245mm, 1420g, 288 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A compelling, fully illustrated account of the worldwide phenomenon of science fiction as depicted...
Bliss & Blunder

Bliss & Blunder

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Victoria Gosling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Arthur and Gwen married young. Twenty years on, Gwen's got it all: wealth, beauty, a famous husband who's the founder of...
The Square: The unputdownable new thriller from the author of Payday, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick

The Square: The unputdownable new thriller from the author of Payday, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick

$49.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Celia WaldenFormat: Hardback, 164mm x 238mm, 525g, 320 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2023THE NEW UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER FROM THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB AUTHOR'Celia Walden is...
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

$32.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Matthew HollisFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 233mm, 215g, 416 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2012Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now...
Open Minded

Open Minded

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Chloe Seager Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Funny, smart and fresh' Reader review 'A unique and very different take on the traditional RomCom . . . I adored...