Sort by:
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Author: Adam Tooze Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where...
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks
Author: Judy Parkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of...
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
$10.00 AUD
Author: Katherine Boo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF...
Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature's Goodness
Author: Alan Levinovitz, PhD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the modern industrial world. We make...
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
Author: Alan Jacobs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women....
Misadventures
Author: Sylvia Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
The Origin of Species: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
The Love of the Game: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Parenting and Sport
Author: Mark Chapman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 BBC sports presenter Mark Chapman is no longer in his physical prime. There is an argument to suggest he...
Forest: Walking among trees
Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest is a celebration of the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting...
Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World
Author: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects Trees clean air and water; hoverflies and bees pollinate...
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
Author: Saeed Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives-winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book...
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Author: Garry Wills Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and...
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown....
In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
Author: Danny Goldberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 'Danny Goldberg is probably one of the purest, most reasonable guides you could ask for to 1967.' - ex-Rolling...
Kew - Rare Plants: Forty of the world's rarest and most endangered plants
Author: Ed Ikin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 Rare Plants explores what makes the world's rarest plants so exceptional, and by what means they have become so...
Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I
$12.00 AUD
Author: William Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America's bloodiest battle ever--World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive--and the shocking American...
Planet Awesome
Author: Stacy McAnulty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 40 'Hi, I'm Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome.' In this hilarious and informative book filled to the...
Thinking Out Loud: Love, Grief and Being Mum and Dad
Author: Rio Ferdinand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'A lacerating account ... painful but necessary' EVENING STANDARD 'Beautiful & significant ......
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensA short history of everybody...
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...
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...
Have Pride: An inspirational history of the LGBTQ+ movement
Author: Stella Caldwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Whoever you are, HAVE PRIDE. This inspirational history of the international LGBTQ+ movement will teach readers to accept and have pride...
When Darwin Sailed the Sea: Uncover how Darwin's revolutionary ideas helped change the world
Author: David Long Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 "One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand; then I...
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time
Author: Tania Hershman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Here are the women whom time has forgotten; those who didn't make it into the history books and those whom society...
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology
Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma...
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
Author: Philip Coggan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not...
My Name Is Why
Author: Lemn Sissay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This...
The Messenger
Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
Author: Cheryl Strayed (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from...
The Journey Matters: Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style
Author: Jonathan Glancey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 What was it really like to take the LNER's Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King's Cross to Edinburgh, to...
Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation
Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and...
Honey Blood: A pulsating, electric memoir like nothing you've read before
Author: Kirsty Everett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down' Kirsty Everett was going to...
The 50 Greatest Prehistoric Sites of the World
Author: Barry Stone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Humanity's written history stretches back only 5,000 years, a mere blip on the timeline of our existence. If you...
Fighting Evil: The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS
Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword...
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream
Author: Casey Gerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the...
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Author: Matthew Kneale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Nominated for the 2017 Pen Hessell-Tiltman Daily Telegraph's Best History Books of 2017 Sunday Times' Best History Books of 2017 A sweeping...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed...
Berlin: Imagine a City
Author: Rory MacLean Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of...
Guinea Pig Town and Other Animal Poems
Author: Lorraine Marwood (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A beautiful collection of poems about animals. Squawk! Snuffle! Bark! Roar! Feathers, fins, scales, claws. Running, hopping, crawling, soaring....
Martin Luther King
Author: Godfrey Hodgson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Martin Luther King left an indelible mark on 20th-century American history through his leadership of the non-violent civil rights...
The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets
Author: Bart Moore-Gilbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 When a letter from an Indian historian arrives out of the blue and informs leading academic Bart Moore-Gilbert that his beloved...
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Author: Ronan Farrow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan...
Popism
Author: Andy Warhol & Pat HackettFormat:Paperback Number of Pages: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat...
Special Ops Heroes
Author: Michael Ashcroft Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest...
The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914
$10.00 AUD
Author: Malcolm Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'The sky was lit by burning villages and houses . . . Rivers and seas of flame leaping up...