Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
In 1968, the 19 year-old Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product of a loving, creative family and a privileged background, he was not only a handsome and popular Cambridge undergraduate, but also a new signing to the UK's hippest record label, Island. Three years later, however - having made ...Show more
The Ball in the Air - A Golfing Adventure by Michael Bamberger
$60.00 AUD
Category: Sport
From Michael Bamberger, the New York Times bestselling author of Men in Green and our most celebrated contemporary golf writer, The Ball in the Air is a love letter to the amateur game, doing for golf what Friday Night Lights did for football.Over Michael Bamberger's storied writing career, he has writt ...Show more
Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists by Laura Freeman
$80.00 AUD
Category: Art
The lives of Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard artists represent a thrilling tipping point in twentieth-century modernism: a new guard, a new way of making and seeing, and a new way of living with art. The artists Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Henry Moore, Christopher Wood, Barbara Hepworth, David Jones, Alfr ...Show more
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a social circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to figure out what they want, and who they are. At the centre of the group are three dancers - Ivan, tall and stoic, ...Show more
Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter by Lucy O'Brien
$40.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A pioneering biography re-evaluating the life and legacy of transcendent musician Karen Carpenter.When the Carpenters first toured Japan, a journalist mistakenly referred to Karen as the 'lead sister' of the band. This designation stuck and Karen liked it so much that she had a T-shirt custom-made with ...Show more
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise. Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past ...Show more
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival by Daniel Finkelstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
‘Epic, moving and important’ Robert Harris From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father’s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War. Daniel’s mother Mirjam Wiener w ...Show more
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
$60.00 AUD
Category: Science
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation--and the moral implications that affect us all.Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mi ...Show more
An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler
$33.00 AUD
Category: Food & Wine
Through the insightful essays in An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler issues a rallying cry to home cooks.
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An epic tale with a message for us all: our power is fleeting, but our stories last forever. This is Salman Rushdie at his best. A magical realist feminist tale in an historical setting that will stay with you long after you turn the final page. The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire ...Show more
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the author of the powerful, prescient Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicBreathless is the story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Here is the story of SARS-C ...Show more