Ac/Dc:Experience the Original Monsters of Rock by Jerry Ewing
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
AC/DC tells the story of the world's biggest band. All of its members are analysed and tracked such as the Young brothers and the late, great Bon Scott. This definitive AC/DC experience pores over every album the band ever released, from 1974's groundbreaking High Voltage through 2008's monster Black Ic ...Show more
1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
$32.99 AUD
$34.99 (5% off)
Category: History
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set t ...Show more
Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox by Victoria Finlay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Part travelogue, part narrative history, Colour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poi ...Show more
100 Goals: 21 Players Seasons Are Aussie Rules Legends by Jon Anderson
$26.99 AUD
$29.99 (10% off)
Category: Sport and Fitness
There are only 21 players alive who have kicked 100 goals in a season. These are golden moments in AFL football. These are players who by their skill created their own records and delighted the fans. Even today the idea of Buddy Franklin kicking 100 goals this season is being talked about in hushed tone ...Show more
The Great War by Les Carlyon
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Great War is Les Carlyon's extraordinary account of the Anzacs on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918. It combines a brilliant overview of this immense conflict with telling detail, stories, letters and diaries that breathe life into those terrible battles of 90 years ago. In The Great War, Carlyon ...Show more
The Running Sky (The Birds and the Bees): A Bird-Watching Life by Tim Dee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Series: Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Ser.
The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Beginning in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, Tim Dee m ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy - A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist 'From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. 'Hillbilly Elegy' is a passionate and pers ...Show more
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Ficton | Reading Level: very good
I pedal over to Kensington just after dark. As I roll along the lane towards the railway underpass, a young Asian woman on her way home from the station walks out of the tunnel towards me. After she passes there’s a stillness, a moment of silent freshness that feels like spring. Helen Garner is one of A ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: near fine
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
101 Ways to Live Well by Lonely Planet
$19.99 AUD
Category: Lonely Planet | Series: Lonely Planet Ser.
Feel like life's too busy to find your zen? Think again. Be a calmer, more productive, healthier you, without sacrificing precious hours. Discover the secret wellness hacks you can incorporate into your routine - whether it's a 5-minute focus exercise on your commute, 10 minutes' meditation at lunchtime ...Show more
When in French: Love in a Second Language by Lauren Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'We spoke to each other in endearments. My darling, my love, mon amour, ma cherie, poussin, mouton, bebe ...People we knew, I think, made fun of us. What they didn't know was that we couldn't say each other's names.' After a lifetime spent living firmly in English, Lauren Collins finds herself adrift in ...Show more
My Family's Keeper by Brad Haddin
$34.99 AUD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: Biography and Memoir
A cricket autobiography unlike any other; a universal story about how love for your family trumps everything. Specialist Australian wicket-keepers to wear the baggy green are a rare and tough breed. Since 1877, only a select few Australian cricketers have held the sport's toughest on-field position. By ...Show more