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Civilisations by Laurent Binet
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
c.1000AD: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland --- 1492: Columbus does not discover America --- 1531: the Incas invade Europe Freydis is the leader of a band of Viking warriors who get as far as Panama. Nobody knows what became of them... Five hundred years later, Christopher Columbus i ...Show more
Truth About Her by Jacqueline Maley
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
How can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own? An absorbing, moving, ruefully tender, witty and wise novel of marriage, motherhood and the paths we navigate through both, for fans of Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler. Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a pho ...Show more
First Person Singular - Stories by Haruki Murakami
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios an ...Show more
Old Seems to Be Other People by Lily Brett
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gentl ...Show more
Churchill and Son by Josh Ireland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Fascinating... well-researched and well-written."--Andrew Roberts "Beautifully written... A triumph." - Damien Lewis "Fascinating, acute and touching."--Simon Sebag Montefiore We think we know ...Show more
The Barbizon by Paulina Bren
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more
A Room of Her Own: Inside the Homes and Lives of Creative Women by Robyn Lea
$65.00 AUD
Category: Interiors
A Room of Her Own features the dazzling homes of twenty extraordinary women around the globe. Across sitting rooms and studios, salon-style hangs and table settings, this is a book of daring inspiration. In this new Renaissance period - a time of artistic, cultural and intellectual rebirth - these wom ...Show more
No One Is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet or what she terms 'the portal'. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die? Suddenly, two te ...Show more
The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula M ...Show more
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Perfect for fans of CIRCE, A SONG OF ACHILLES, and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS. As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Mi ...Show more
How Good is Scott Morrison? by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating Morrison's unlikely rise to the liberal leadership and his miracle electoral win, van Onselen and Errington put his leadership under the spotlight. Covering Morrison's disa ...Show more
Reading the Seasons: Books Holding Life and Friendship Together by Germaine Leece, Sonya Tsakalakis
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
It's an old cliché that books 'transport you'; but as any avid reader will tell you, there's far more to them than that. Alongside comfort and retreat, books offer insight into ourselves and others; they tell us how the world is, was or might be; they are windows into other worlds, whose meanings resona ...Show more