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Mrs. M by Luke Slattery
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From one of Australia's foremost journalists, Luke Slattery, comes a bravura literary achievement, a rich and intense novel of an imagined history of desire, ambition and dashed dreams, and a portrait of one passionate, unforgettable woman - Elizabeth Macquarie. Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the disgrac ...Show more
Reclaiming Epicurus: How an Ancient Philosophy of Happiness Could Save the World (Penguin Specials) by Luke Slattery
$9.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Specials
Epicureanism has been diluted into a byword for gourmet dining, but does the original ancient Greek 'philosophy of the Garden' contain insight that could save the world? Luke Slattery argues that reading Epicurus could help us rethink our materialist ways and challenge the inevitability of man-made clim ...Show more
The First Dismissal by Luke Slattery
$10.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Penguin Specials
While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far away in New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of the 'fair go'. Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed that a person's worth - be they gentry, infantry or convict - lay in ...Show more
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