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The Watch Tower
Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 Introduced by Joan London Winner, Patrick White Award 1996 Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently...
I Saw A Strange Land
Author: Arthur Groom Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 While living in Central Australia Arthur Groom fell under the spell of our harsh and fascinating country, captivated by...
Dark Places: Text Classics
Author: Kate Grenville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Introduced by Louise Adler Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 1995 Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Award 1995 This is Albion...
Everywhere I Look
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Everywhere I Look is a collection of essays, diary entries and true stories spanning more than fifteen years of...
This House Of Grief
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 310 Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going...
Monkey Grip
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded...
The Children's Bach
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors, now available in a smaller and...
Aunts Up The Cross
Author: Robin Dalton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 142 My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was...
Slow Man
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Slow Man is a modern...
The Childhood of Jesus
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Childhood of Jesus is not like any other novel you have read. This beautiful and surprising fable...
Summertime
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Summertime is a modern classic...
All The Green Year
Author: Don Charlwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 286 Introduced by Michael McGirr 'The year I remember best from those days is 1929. This was the year I...
The Cardboard Crown
Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 266 Introduced by Brenda Niall This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of...
Outbreak Of Love
Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 322 Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of...
The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory
Author: Mark Raphael Baker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The 20th anniversary edition of a seminal post-Holocaust work. What right did I possess, as a child of...
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Author: Elisabeth Tova Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring...
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope & Odysseus: Text Myth Series
Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The series that began in October with Karen Armstrong's compelling A Short History of Myth continues, with electrifying new...
Flames
Author: Robbie Arnott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The highly praised debut from Tasmanian author Robbie Arnott, now in a beautiful B-format edition. Released ahead of Arnott's...
How To Practise: The Way to a Meaningful Life
Author: Dalai Lama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The classic inspirational work on how to live a meaningful life from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. 'The Dalai...
Metahuman: Unleashing your infinite potential
Author: Dr Deepak Chopra Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Understanding higher consciousness and why it matters, from the New York Times bestselling author of You Are The...
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: Classic Editions
Author: Dr Deepak Chopra Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The worldwide bestseller that reveals the alternative to growing old and the key to lasting health. 'The poet-prophet...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
Author: Daniel Lieberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Author: Naomi Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le Carre Around the world in Britain, the United...
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 To Hell and Backtells this story with humanity, flair and originality. Kershaw gives a compelling narrative of events, but...
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After...
Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
Author: Lucy Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An urgent, comprehensive inquiry into how nature enriches the human psyche - and of the startling risks we face...
The Italians
Author: John Hooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A deeply knowledgeable and enjoyable account of what makes the Italians tick Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
On Grand Strategy
Author: John Lewis Gaddis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy...
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Author: Joshua Foer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The international bestseller on memory and how to master it Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used...
An Economic History of the English Garden
Author: Roderick Floud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first and only in-depth economic history of England's gardens, from 1660 to today At least since the seventeenth...
Civilization: The West and the Rest
Author: Niall Ferguson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 How the West's six 'killer apps' transformed the history of the world Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished...
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition
Author: Jonathan Fenby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping. In 1850, China...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
Author: Jordan Ellenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 How a little mathematics goes a long way in helping you not to be wrong The maths we learn...
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Author: Pedro Domingos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos reveals how machine learning is remaking business, politics, science and war. And he...
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
Author: Albert Costa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The definitive study of bilingualism from a leading neuropsychologist Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet...
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Author: Christopher Clark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland
Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
Author: Dr John Barton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation- how it came to be written, how its contents were...
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist anatomizes the personal and ideological dimensions of the current appeal of authoritarian regimes...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics
Author: Anthony Aguirre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A delightful intellectual adventure that brings together physics and ancient philosophy Could there be a civilization on a mote...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb....
The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body
Author: Daniel Goleman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific research. Drawing on...
Facebook: The Inside Story
Author: Steven Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 From renowned tech writer Steven Levy, the complete history of one of America's most controversial and successful companies Today,...
Hot Milk
Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, a hypnotic tale of female sexuality, power and myth from the author...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The classic Cold War thriller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time The Cold War is...