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
3 Shades of Blue - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the seminal jazz album of all time Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is a magnificent, blended biography on the meandering paths which led Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 a ...Show more
How to be a Bad Botanist by Simon Barnes
$33.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
Can you tell a tomato from a grape? A patch of grass from a Christmas tree? Then congratulations – you’re a botanist. Self-confessed bad birdwatcher Simon Barnes thought he knew nothing about plants. He didn't have anything against them: trees are interesting because birds perch in them; plants are use ...Show more
Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker
$34.95 AUD
Category: Art
In Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker trained her insatiable curiosity, journalist's knack for infiltrating exclusive circles and eye for unforgettable characters on the wine world as she trained to become a sommelier. Now she brings her whip-smart yet accessible sensibility along for a ride through another subcu ...Show more
Demon Of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War by Erik Larson
$38.00 AUD
Category: American
The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky ...Show more
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard's I Remember and Edouard Levé's Autoportrait, passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the alphabetical diaries.
You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know by Philip Gourevitch
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Twenty years after the genocide, the author of the definitive, award-winning book on Rwanda returns Philip Gourevitch's modern classic We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families opened our eyes to the 1994 genocide of Rwanda's Tutsi minority- close to a million people murde ...Show more
Endeavour Journals: Captain Cook in Australia by CLARE JOHN AND MACDONALD MACDONALD
$75.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1770 H.M. Bark Endeavour arrived in New Holland, Australia, the 'Continent of Smoke'. On board were Lieutenant James Cook, gentleman naturalist Joseph Banks, natural history artist Sydney Parkinson, and Midshipman James Magra.For the first time, this book combines the journals of these men to present ...Show more
To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul by Alexander Christie-Miller
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
This is a meditation on the soul of Istanbul, a paean to its resilience and fortitude. Walk with Alexander Christie-Miller and see the danger, beauty and hope. Caught between two seas and two continents, with a contested past and an imperiled future, Istanbul represents the precipitous moment civilizat ...Show more