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The Summit: The Biggest Battle of the Second World War - Fought Behind Closed Doors by Ed Conway
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The idea of world leaders gathering in the midst of economic crisis has become all-too familiar. But the summit at Bretton Woods in 1944 was the only time countries from around the world have agreed to overhaul the structure of the international monetary system. And, what's more, they were successful - ...Show more
The Thunder Mutters : 101 Poems for the Planet by Alice Oswald (ed)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Alice Oswald has chosen 101 poems, which map the border between the personal and natural worlds. Including poems by William Barnes, Robert Frost, John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Ashbery and many others, "The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for t ...Show more
The Women's Pool by Lynne Spender (ed)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies & Journals
The history of McIvers Ladies Baths in Coogee affectionately know as the Womens Pool is eloquently told in these stories by women who have found friendship, sanctuary and simple pleasure as they have gathered and swum there. The history of Coogees McIvers Ladies Baths Australias only ocean pool reserved ...Show more
These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries by May Smith; Duncan Marlor (ed.)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Auntie F. came in announcing dramatically that Hitler is coming tomorrow, at which my father remarked that he would, now that he's just finished papering upstairs. At the outbreak of World War Two, May Smith was twenty-four. She lived in a small village near Derby with her parents, and taught at the loc ...Show more
This Woman's Work - Essays on Music by Kim Gordon (ed.); Sinead Gleeson (ed.)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Music
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz Pelly, Maggie Nelson, Margo Jefferson, Megan Jasper, Ottessa Moshfegh, Simone White, Yiyun Li and Zakia S ...Show more
Toploader by Ed O'Loughlin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Spying inside the Embargoed Zone is an expensive business, not to say risky, and Agent Cobra wants his wages in full. But his down-at-heel spymaster can only offer payment in kind - and the first thing he finds in an unattended storeroom. And so both men are sucked into the mysterious Toploader project, ...Show more
Urban Farmers - The Now (and How) of Growing Food in the City by Valery Rizzo ed.
$85.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
We are what we eat, but do you know what you're eating? Urban agriculture is the global movement that encourages the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in the city. As our world becomes increasingly defined by urban structures, exploring urban agriculture to encourage greener livi ...Show more
Voices from the Grave : Two Men's War in Ireland by Ed Moloney
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Ed Moloney's "A Secret History of the IRA" is the best-informed account yet written of the IRA's evolution from ruthless guerrilla army into governmental party. But reconciliation between political figures who until very recently wished each other dead or in jail has not been accompanied by very much tr ...Show more
War Behind the Wire : Australian Prisoners of War by Michael Caulfield (ed)
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
More than 34,000 Australian men and women have so far ended up in captivity - over 100 in the Boer War, more than 4,000 in WWI, just 30 during the Korean War, none in Vietnam, and most of all, WWII, 30,560. Of the total number of Australian deaths during WWII, nearly thirty per cent, one in every three, ...Show more
Welcome to Our Table: A Celebration of What Children Eat Everywhere by Laura Mucha, Ed Smith
$30.00 AUD
Category: Information Books
A celebration of food, tradition and culture around the world! Find out what children eat all around the world in this beautifully illustrated book,written by bestselling poet and author Laura Mucha, alongside trained chef and foodwriter Ed Smith. From biryani to biltong, passionfruit to papaya, and ram ...Show more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture by Scott Woods ed.
$35.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture documents a series of conversations with some of contemporary architectures most accomplished thinkers and practitioners. The conversations took place in 2018 and 2019 at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), the University of Melbourne. What We Talk Ab ...Show more