Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more by Natasha Lunn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
*THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'This book might just change your life' Sunday Times'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant... will leave your heart in a much better place' StylistAfter years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
Dharawal: the first contact people - 250 years of black and white relations by Bruce Watt
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
Elements of Style, The by William Strunk, E. B. White
$26.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. This 'little' book can help students communicate more effectively, showing them how to enliven their sentences, put statements in the positive form and write in a clear and simple style.
Fake Heroes - Ten False Icons and How They Altered the Course of History by Otto English
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From the author of bestseller Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars in history.'A brilliant book.'James O'BrienWhether it's virtuous leaders in just wars, martyrs sacrificing all for a cause, or innovators changing the world for the better, down the ...Show more
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' - CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL HOUSE 'Tender, heartfelt and lyrical' - PETINA GAPPAH, AUTHOR OF OUT OF DARKNESS, SHINING LIGHT Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean, the ...Show more
Gallipoli and the Dardanelles 1915-1916 by JOHN GREHAN
$44.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Despatches from the Front Ser.
The fighting in the Gallipoli or Dardanelles campaign began in 1915 as a purely naval affair undertaken partly at the instigation of Winston Churchill, who, as First Lord of the Admiralty, had entertained plans of capturing the Dardanelles as early as September 1914. It was the Royal Navy that bore the ...Show more
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking, to politics and to life, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks. As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the world? How to Thi ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is rigged against ordina ...Show more
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship by Gyan Yankovich
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, work lunches with work wives, taking it to the group chat - our friendships touch and enrich every part of ...Show more
Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between t ...Show more