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Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene

Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene

$45.00 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Kim Reed Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 By day, Kim Reed was a social worker to the homebound elderly in Brooklyn Heights. By night, she scrambled into Manhattan...
Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022

Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022

$35.00 AUD$28.00 AUD
Author: Andrea Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty...
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

$35.00 AUD$28.00 AUD
Author: Estelle Paranque Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A thrilling joint biography of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, uncovering how their complex 30-year relationship shaped their dynasties, perfect...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea that nothing...
A Flaw in the Design: 'A psychological thriller par excellence' Guardian

A Flaw in the Design: 'A psychological thriller par excellence' Guardian

$32.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Nathan Oates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A literary thriller of the highest order' - Julia May Jonas, author of Vladimir Gil has been estranged from his sister...
Geneva: 'A sensational debut.' CLARE MACKINTOSH

Geneva: 'A sensational debut.' CLARE MACKINTOSH

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Richard Armitage Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'An outstanding debut - ingenious, fast-paced and unpredictable.' - HARLAN COBEN 'Geneva is one of the best thrillers I've ever read....
Watch Us Dance: The vibrant new novel from the bestselling author of Lullaby

Watch Us Dance: The vibrant new novel from the bestselling author of Lullaby

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Leila Slimani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The seductive, vibrant new novel from international bestselling author Leila Slimani. Morocco, 1968. As she stands at the window, Mathilde reflects...
The Beholders

The Beholders

$32.99 AUD$26.39 AUD
Author: Hester Musson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Held me completely in its thrall until the very last line' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN, bestselling author of Pandora 'A well-researched and thoroughly...
Jane Austen, Early and Late

Jane Austen, Early and Late

$54.99 AUD$27.50 AUD
Author: Freya Johnston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and...
Looking Glass Sound: from the bestselling and award winning author of The Last House on Needless Street

Looking Glass Sound: from the bestselling and award winning author of The Last House on Needless Street

$32.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Catriona Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The new dark thriller from the bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street In a windswept cottage overlooking the...
A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans

A Dog's World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans

$29.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Jessica Pierce Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 From two of the world's leading authorities on dogs, an imaginative journey into a future of dogs without people What would...
The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece

The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece

$34.99 AUD$17.50 AUD
Author: Maria Michela Sassi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 An acclaimed study of the diverse origins of ancient Greek philosophyIn this acclaimed book, Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs the intellectual...
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: John Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 600 Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when...
A Place like No Other: Discovering the Secrets of Serengeti

A Place like No Other: Discovering the Secrets of Serengeti

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Anthony R. E. Sinclair Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From famed zoologist Anthony Sinclair, an account of his decades-long quest to understand one of Earth's most spectacular ecosystems....
Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

$34.99 AUD$17.50 AUD
Author: William E. Wallace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 328 Finalist for the Marfield Prize (The National Award for Arts Writing), Arts Club of Washington The untold story of Michelangelo's...
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Arnold Weinstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes...
You Are What You Read: A Practical Guide to Reading Well

You Are What You Read: A Practical Guide to Reading Well

$39.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Robert DiYanni Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 We are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction...
Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau

Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau

$39.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Andrew Blauner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney...
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...
Living on a Thin Line

Living on a Thin Line

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Dave Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining...
Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America

Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America

$29.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Debbie Cenziper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945...
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet with a New Introduction by the Author

Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet with a New Introduction by the Author

$12.00 AUD
Author: Andrew Blum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 An engaging, narrative tour behind the scenes of our everyday lives to see the dark beating heart of the Internet itself....
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...
Foul Lady Fortune: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends

Foul Lady Fortune: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Chloe Gong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Assassin. Immortal. Spy. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights comes the first book in a...
End of Story

End of Story

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: A. J. Finn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The brand new edge-of-your-seat thriller from the author of the smash hit bestseller The Woman in the Window. 'Elegant, absorbing,...
The New Couple in 5B

The New Couple in 5B

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Lisa Unger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of...
A Fairytale Bride/Cinderella Assistant/Beauty And The Prince

A Fairytale Bride/Cinderella Assistant/Beauty And The Prince

$19.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Ally Blake Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Something there that wasn't there before... Cinderella Assistant - Ally Blake Assistant Hadley has given her all to billionaire Ronan's business....
Boundary Crossers: The hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers

Boundary Crossers: The hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Meg Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and their bushranging brothers are famous. They're remembered as folk heroes...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

$26.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide' Observer 'A fascinating, must-read book covering...
The Vintage Shop: 'Hot buttered-toast-and-tea feelgood fiction' The Times

The Vintage Shop: 'Hot buttered-toast-and-tea feelgood fiction' The Times

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Libby Page Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Absorbing, thoughtful and moving... a wonderfully engaging feelgood read that you'll want to come back to again and again' MIKE GAYLE...
Rome: Eternal City

Rome: Eternal City

$59.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Ferdinand Addis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 648 A portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year history....
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal

The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Simon Parkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had...
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 Real Prime Suspect: From the beat to the screen. My life as a female detective.

The Real Prime Suspect: From the beat to the screen. My life as a female detective.

$55.00 AUD$17.50 AUD
Author: Jackie Malton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023 *** 'Jaw-dropping.' -Val McDermid 'Pacy, witty... 4*' -...
A Flaw in the Design: 'A psychological thriller par excellence' Guardian

A Flaw in the Design: 'A psychological thriller par excellence' Guardian

$39.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Nathan Oates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A nephew. An uncle. A psychopath - but which of them is it? Gil knows his nephew Matthew is dangerous. The...
Goose Green: The decisive battle of the Falklands War  - by the British troops who fought it

Goose Green: The decisive battle of the Falklands War - by the British troops who fought it

$27.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Nigel Ely Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands war 'There was a time when we did extraordinary things.' On 28...
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...
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...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

$59.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Katherine Pangonis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon...
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

$55.00 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Adam Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their...
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance

The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance

$28.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Nessa Carey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The most important revolution in modern biology - and what it means for humanity. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling...
Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph

Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph

$55.00 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Sara Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar A Times Literary Supplement...
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...
Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control  Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities

Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities

$49.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: David B. Auerbach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 How the autonomous digital forces jolting our lives - as uncontrollable as the weather and plate tectonics - are transforming...
The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature's Hidden Rules

The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature's Hidden Rules

$55.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Tim Blackburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Every morning, ecologist Tim Blackburn is inspired by the diversity contained within the moth trap he runs on the roof of...
Love on the Brain: From the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

Love on the Brain: From the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Author: Ali Hazelwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Your world is about to be rocked.' Elena Armas, author of The Spanish Love Deception 'Hopelessly, brilliantly, wonderfully romantic. I loved...
The House in the Pines: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller - a twisty thriller that will have you reading through the night

The House in the Pines: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller - a twisty thriller that will have you reading through the night

$49.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Ana Reyes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'AN ABSOLUTE, CAN'T-PUT-IT-DOWN THRILLER' Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club Jan...
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...