Sort by:
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
Reading Champion: The Magic Kettle: Independent Reading Turquoise 7
Author: Jackie Walter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 In this Japanese traditional tale, a tinker buys a kettle from an old man - a magic kettle which can change...
Reading Champion: The Rabbit and the Crab: Independent Reading Orange 6
Author: Amelia Marshall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with...
Black Lake Manor
Author: Guy Morpuss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A locked room. A brutal murder. And a killer who can turn back time... In the former mining town of Black...
Dark Whisper
Author: Christine Feehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Embrace the seductive call of the latest novel in Christine Feehan's No.1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series. . . Vasilisa...
Unfinished Business
Author: Michael Bracewell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where...
The Color Purple: A Special 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
Author: Alice Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 ONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' 'A lush celebration of all that it means to be a...
To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde
Author: Rupert Everett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A Times, Telegraph and Guardian Book of the Year 2020 'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times 'Everett...
The Dying Squad
Author: Adam Simcox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 WHO BETTER TO SOLVE A MURDER THAN A DEAD DETECTIVE? When Detective Inspector Joe Lazarus storms a Lincolnshire farmhouse, he expects...
Pandemonium: Some verses on the Current Predicament
Author: Armando Iannucci Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off our panic and Globed vexation...
Gifts
Author: Laura Barnett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'If you're not in the Yuletide mood yet, you will be after this' TELEGRAPH 'A gorgeous festive tale' DAILY MAIL 'The...
Birthday Girl: Dark and masterfully written, Birthday Girl will keep you reading through the night
Author: Niko Wolf Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 He loved her. He lost her. But he should never have written her off. 'Birthday Girl is a real treat of...
The Mirror Dance
Author: Catriona McPherson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'The ever-witty McPherson has outdone herself' Scottish Field 'All the wit and clever plotting fans of Christie could want.' My Weekly...
Colour is Home: A Brave Guide to Designing Classic Interiors
Author: Charlotte Coote Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 With Charlotte Coote's confidence in colour, texture and pattern pairings, a whole new way of approaching design is revealed. In this...
Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation's Cultural Heritage
Author: Andrey Kurkov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage, drawing on over 100 of the country's most important works of art and architectural...
Who Shot Van Gogh?: Facts and counterfacts about the world's most famous artist
Author: Alan Turnbull Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Fact or fiction? An imaginative collection of statements about Vincent van Gogh that challenges what we think we know about the...
Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us about Creativity
$20.00 AUD
Author: Andreas Wagner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science In Life Finds a...
Michaelangelo's Notebooks: The Poetry, Letters and Art of the Great Master
Author: Carolyn Vaughan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest poets of the sixteenth century. He also filled hundreds of sheets of paper with...
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
Author: Robert B. Zoellick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with...
Glorious Vegetables of Italy
Author: Domenica Marchetti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This book is a tribute to Italy's many glorious vegetables, from the bright, orange-fleshed pumpkins of autumn to the tender green...
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
Author: Gershom Gorenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans...
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
Author: Brent E. Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her...
Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare
Author: Paul Lockhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells...
The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
Author: Winston Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly...
Augustine
$25.00 AUD
Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 "This narrative of the first half of Augustine's life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire...
City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
$25.00 AUD
Author: Rupert Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French...
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
$17.50 AUD
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the...
The Human Swarm
$22.50 AUD
Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...
Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire
Author: Alan Gallay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Sir Walter Ralegh was the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who showered him estates, jewels, monopolies, and political appointments earning him the...
14-18: Understanding the Great War
$15.00 AUD
Author: Catherine Temerson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 With this brilliantly innovative book, reissued for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette...
Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow
Author: Deyan Sudjic Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously...
Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
$15.00 AUD
Author: Roger Moorhouse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 An "exemplary" (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War II For Americans, World War II began...
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
$15.00 AUD
Author: Jonathan Sacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A distinguished religious leader's "brilliant, urgent" (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values. With liberal democracy embattled,...
The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight
Author: Adam Bulley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A spellbinding exploration of the human capacity to imagine the future. Our ability to think about the future is one of...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
$20.00 AUD
Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
$25.00 AUD
Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our...
Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II
$22.50 AUD
Author: Paul Betts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Winner of the American Philosophical Society's 2021 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History From an award-winning historian, a panoramic account of...
Managing By The Numbers: A Commonsense Guide To Understanding And Using Your Company's Financials
Author: Chuck Kremer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Everyone interested in building a stronger business needs to understand and use the information captured in financial statements. In Managing by...
Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate...
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 A riveting account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler's declaration of war...
Belle and Sebastian: Illustrated Lyrics
Author: Stuart Murdoch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A beautiful collaboration between Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch and illustrator Pamela Tait: a unique visual reinterpretation of Murdoch's favourite...
Fight!: Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top
Author: Harry Hill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A TIMES BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2021 'The funniest man in the world has written the funniest book in the world.'...
Sing Me Forgotten
Author: Jessica S. Olson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Lush and lavish, Sing Me Forgotten hit all the right notes' Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of...
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Author: Hugh Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But...
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
$15.00 AUD
Author: Brandon Presser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at...
A Toolkit for Happiness: 55 Ways to Feel Better
Author: Dr Emma Hepburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'Mandatory for anyone with a brain' - Anna Whitehouse, founder of Mother Pukka 'Relatable, practical and knowledgeable' - Gemma Bray,...
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World
Author: John Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...