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The Golden Maze: a Biography of Prague (HB) by Richard Fidler
$39.99 AUD
Category: history
ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolution bro ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
$32.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
Love Clancy: A Dog's Letters Home, Edited and Debated by Richard Glover by Richard Glover
$29.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Heartfelt and hilarious, this is a book for anyone who has tried to imagine what their dog was thinking. Human beings often write about their dogs, but the dogs don't usually get a right of reply. In Love, Clancy, Richard Glover has collated the letters sent by Clancy to his parents in the bush. They a ...Show more
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
$35.00 AUD
Category: science environment animals | Reading Level: near fine
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$39.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
$39.99 AUD
Category: science environment
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
This One Wild and Precious Life by Sarah Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: family health psychology
In This One Wild and Precious Life, Sarah Wilson explores the central disorder of modern existence: disconnection from ourselves, disconnection from community, disconnection from the preciousness of life on this planet This One Wild and Precious Life is a journey of the soul, a case for why we need to ...Show more
And Now, for the Good News...To the Future with Love by Ruby Wax
$32.99 AUD
Category: family health psychology
When was the last time that reading the news made you feel good? Dear Reader, I know what you're thinking, is it some kind of macabre joke? Has she been in a coma? How can Ruby Wax write a book about good news when the world is facing the worst disaster since the Plague? Let me explain. I began writing ...Show more
The Power of Discord: Why the Ups and Downs of Relationships Are the Secret to Building Intimacy, Resilience, and Trust by Ed Tronick; Claudia M. Gold
$29.99 AUD
Category: family health psychology
This "profoundly wise" look at how to foster connections, attachment, and resiliency explains why working through discord is the key to better relationships. (Sue Johnson, bestselling author of Hold Me Tight)You might think that perfect harmony is the defining characteristic of healthy relationships, bu ...Show more
The Expendables: How the middle class got screwed by globalisation by Jeff Rubin
$34.99 AUD
Category: economics politics business
A provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalisation, and how the blowback — from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe — will change the developed world. Real wages have not risen much for decades. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is be ...Show more
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
$35.00 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
The author of the beloved No.1 bestseller The Shepherd's Life returns with a stirring history of family, loss and the land over three generations on a Lake District farm 'A beautifully-written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape.' - Nigel Slater 'Just about perfect.' - Wendell Berry James ...Show more
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson
$103.99 AUD
Category: family health psychology
Jordan B. Peterson's Maps of Meaning is now available for the first time as an audio download! Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the a ...Show more