The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
$36.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down to the distortions in the labour mark ...Show more
Sonny Boy by Al Pacino
$55.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A forthcoming book published in autumn 2024 by Century, Penguin Random House.
Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink by Ariane Beeston
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'How strange to be the observed and not the observer.' Ariane Beeston is a child protection worker and newly registered psychologist when she gives birth to her first child - and very quickly begins to experience scary breaks with reality. Out of fear and shame, she keeps her delusions and hallucinatio ...Show more
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a Mother and Baby home in 1950s Ireland, Mary grew up in an in ...Show more
Adventures in Democracy by Erica Benner
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
A political philosopher explores the elusive promises of popular government around the world 'There's no simple way to measure how strong a democracy is, or how weak.' Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in kee ...Show more
The Light of Asia - A History of Western Fascination with the East by Christopher Harding
$65.00 AUD
Category: Asian
From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of ...Show more
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph Stiglitz
$37.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ...Show more
Francis Bacon - A Self-Portrait in Words by Michael Peppiatt
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
The documents selected for Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words illustrate Bacon's sharp wit and ability to express complex ideas in highly personal, memorable language. Included here are not only letters to friends, patrons, and fellow artists, but also intriguing notes and lists of paintings. They ...Show more
The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories by Colombe Schneck
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
The Paris Trilogy is celebrated French author Colombe Schneck's first English language publication, translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer. Writing in response to Annie Ernaux and in conversation with Elena Ferrante, Colombe Schneck's three semi-autobiographical takes on a woman’s life form ...Show more
Operation Biting by Max Hastings
$38.00 AUD
Category: War
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones propose ...Show more
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO by Peter Apps
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFEThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that ...Show more
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt by Asne Seierstad
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding In her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is ...Show more