Chernobyl Prayer - Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A beautifully written book, it's been years since I had to look away from a page because it was just too heart-breaking to go on' - Arundhati Roy, Elle'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, Observer The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Ale ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...Show more
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and ...Show more
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened...In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with uproarious stories of her bizarre childhood. In her new book, ...Show more
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'You will not read a finer work of narrative non-fiction this year.' Economist 'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction.' Times Literary Supplement 'A future classic of disaster journalism.' Observer On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast o ...Show more
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again."-David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon One of the New York Times' "20 most antici ...Show more
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara, Patton Oswalt
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post - Maureen Corrigan, NPR - Paste - Seattle Times - Entertainment Weekly - Esquire - Slate - Buzzfeed - Jezebel - Philadelphia Inquirer - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - Library Journal - Bustle - Mother Jones - Real Simple - Cri ...Show more
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
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Category: History
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice' JON KRAKAUER 'A fiercely entertaining mystery story and ...Show more
Kinglake-350 by Adrian Hyland
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Category: Current Affairs
Kinglake-350 to VKC. Urgent, do you read me? The fire’s here now. God help us. Kinglake-350 is a masterpiece of writing about family, community, country life and what happens when a day of ultimate terror arrives. Adrian Hyland takes a dramatic and compelling sequence of events on that day and weaves th ...Show more
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, ...Show more
Nothing to Envy: Life, Love and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick
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Category: Current Affairs
WINNER OF THE 2010 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What if the world imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four was real? What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs? Where spies like Orwell's Thought Police studied your facial expressions ...Show more
People Who Eat Darkness - Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's Shadows by Richard Lloyd Parry
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
"Lucie Blackman tall, blonde, and 21 years-old stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl, involving J ...Show more