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Quarterly Essay 77: Cry Me a River, The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin by Margaret Simons by Margaret Simons
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
The Murray-Darling Basin is the food bowl of Australia, and it's in trouble. What does this mean for the future - for water and food, and for the people and towns that depend on it? In this Quarterly Essay, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through the basin, all the way from Queensland ...Show more
The Lost Boy: Tales of a Child Soldier by Ayik Chut Deng
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In episode 1 of the Ray Martin fronted SBS series Look me in the eye two South Sudanese migrants now resident in Brisbane sat across from each other and looked into each other's eyes. One of them, Ayik, was once a ten-year-old boy soldier training in the junior forces of the SPLA and like many of the yo ...Show more
Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'It wasn't the life I'd ever imagined for myself, but I know now that we seldom ever get what we've imagined, and that this life is less about achieving than it is about adjusting. We're not the waves that pound against the earth until it breaks down to our wants. We're the rivers, that bend and give am ...Show more
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NEW YORK'S "ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK" PICK The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad--now available at a great value Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Named One of the Best Books of the Yea ...Show more
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions fascinate thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. This is Daniel C ...Show more
Not Just Lucky by Jamila Rizvi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'Feisty and inquisitive - a fresh take on modern feminist issues.' Julia GillardAustralian women are suffering from a crisis of confidence about work. Accustomed to being overlooked and undervalued, even when women do get to the top, they explain their success away as 'luck'. But it's not.Not Just Lucky ...Show more
Australia's Second Chance by George Megalogenis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Books for Grown-ups
Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches ...Show more
Journey Through Wine: An Atlas by Adrien Grant Smith Bianchi; Jules Gaubert-Turpin
$70.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Welcome to your tour of the wine-growing world! Wine has rolled its barrel from the shores of the Black Sea to the mountains of the Andes, following humans and their dreams. But just how did a Pyrenean grape variety end up in Uruguay? And by what means were grapevines able to reach Japan? This book goes ...Show more
The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'Suspenseful and deeply felt...raises questions about the reality of the American dream and illuminates stories that often go untold, in life as well as fiction' Chloe Benjamin, bestselling author of The Immortalists Reminiscent of Celeste Ng's page-turning meditations on identity, this searing mother- ...Show more
Little Fires Everywhere (PB) by Celeste Ng
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The #1 New York Times bestseller - NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES ON AMAZON PRIME'Just read it . . . Outstanding' Matt Haig'To say I love this book is an understatement . . . It moved me to tears' Reese Witherspoon'Beautifully written, completely charming, and extremely wise on the subject of adolescence and inf ...Show more
The Barefoot Investor for Families: The Only Kids' Money Guide You'll Ever Need by Scott Pape
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need is a phenomenon, sprinting through one million copies to become one of the best selling Australian books ever. Why is it so successful? It's simple, funny and practical. And it has changed people's lives. The eagerly anticipated follow-up, Th ...Show more
Homeland Calling - Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices by Desert Pea Media; Ellen van Neerven (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
With lyrics rich in rhyme, Homeland Calling is a hip-hop poetry collection that channels culture and challenges stereotypes. The words have all been written by First Nations youth from remote and regional communities around Australia, edited by award-winning author and poet Ellen van Neerven, and brough ...Show more