Behind the Lines: The Year in Political Cartoons 2023 by Museum of Australian Democracy
$25.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2023 celebrates another year in Australia's unique, vibrant and fearless tradition of political cartooning. No politician, party or policy is safe from the nation's best cartoonists; witty, powerful or ribald, their images offer an astutely observed j ...Show more
What the Trees See: A wander through millennia of natural history in Australia by Dave Witty
$30.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
The trees around us - some we may walk past every day - tell a story. The mallee box by the twelfth hole of North Adelaide Golf Course evokes a time when Adelaide was clothed in mallee scrub and desert senna. Brisbane' s remnant blue gum, growing by the botanic gardens, indicates a time when the city wa ...Show more
Bookshop Dogs by Ruth Shaw
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many have great stories, be they funny, sad, strange, bemusing, quirky or sweet. Woven throughout are tales of the very special Hun ...Show more
How To Be French: Eat, Drink, Dress, Travel and Love la Vie Française by Janine Marsh
$30.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: How to Be... Ser.
What does it mean to be French?Is it pausing to enjoy a glass of good wine or a spread of cheese? A flâneur down laneways steeped in history? Knowing just how to dress so you always look effortlessly chic?This book is a celebration of the French lifestyle – an education in drinking to savour the moment, ...Show more
Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life by Ben Crystal, David Crystal
$45.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Shakespeare had an ear and hand that was able to capture our everyday thoughts and emotions, pin them to a page, and express them so well that still today they can make us feel stunned to be seen.'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.''Make not your thoughts your prisons.''Wisely and slow. ...Show more
Great LGBTQ+ Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage And Inspire by Tea Uglow
$30.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Over 40 empowering speeches celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in their own words through extracts and commissioned illustrations, spanning throughout history up to the modern day. Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation. A sister title to Great Women's Sp ...Show more
Nairn's Paris by Ian Nairn
$29.95 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
50th Anniversary of original publication; this is a unique Paris guidebook from the late, great, architecture and travel writer Ian Nairn. Illustrated with the author's black and white snaps of the city, Nairn shows his eye for detail - whether it is stonework on an archway, shadows cast by a railin ...Show more
Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing by Jon Day
$29.95 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. This is an anthology of fishing writing ranging from medieval times to the present, taking the ...Show more
Greta Thunberg (I Know This to Be True): On Truth, Courage and Saving Our Planet by Geoff Blackwell; Greta Thunberg
$20.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE
One of the leading contemporary voices on climate change, Greta Thunberg answers fundamental questions about leadership and what really matters to her.
Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
$80.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
The Cat Who Taught Zen: The beautifully illustrated new tale from the bestselling author of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury
$35.00 AUD
Category: Self-Help
From the author and illustrator of the international bestseller Big Panda and Tiny Dragon comes a beautifully illustrated exploration of life and Zen, an adult fable of an old cat's journey to find infinite wisdom and the lessons he shares with others along the way. In a distant city, an old cat consid ...Show more
Stoic at Work: Ancient Wisdom to Make Your Job a Bit Less Annoying by Annie Lawson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
A sharply observed workplace survival guide that spins 49 entertaining modern rules from the wisdom of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius's timeless insights into human behaviour show that 2000 years on, not much has changed in the workplace and we could all do well if we focus on what we ca ...Show more