The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion by Cory Leadbeater
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Cory Leadbeater grew up in a working-class town in New Jersey, one of three brothers, a quiet kid looking to find refuge from the rougher parts of his childhood in Dickens, Austen and Frost. Almost a decade ago when he was just starting at Columbia's MFA program, still living at home, he received an of ...Show more
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
An unsparing memoir of the city in the 21st century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as ...Show more
Imperial Harvest by Bruce Pascoe
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Yen Se has lost everything to the Khan's brutality.Left with one eye and one leg, he is forced out of his home village to work in the city as a horse handler. Witness to the Khan's violent crusade, their raids sweeping across Eurasia, he travels with the theatre of war, but exists outside of it; stunned ...Show more
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of Blitzed. First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a 'truth serum' by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in A ...Show more
Operation Biting by Max Hastings
$38.00 AUD
Category: War
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones propos ...Show more
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came To Control Your Life) by George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison
$29.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives- our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; the planet we inhabit - the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name. It seems unavoidab ...Show more
Sandwich by CATHERINE NEWMAN
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
One week in Cape Cod. The perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong...? From the author of We All Want Impossible Things, a raucously funny novel with an unexpected punch about being 'sandwiched' between growing children and ageing parents and the power of change. 'Sandwich is joy in book ...Show more
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime
WELCOME TO THE MANOR - THE PARTY'S ON FIRE ** Book your place at the table … The brand new murder mystery thriller from the No.1 bestseller**Midsummer, the Dorset coastIn the shadows of an ancient wood, guests gather for the opening weekend of The Manor: a beautiful new countryside retreat. But under ...Show more
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
$20.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A poignant, incisive meditation on Israel's longstanding rejection of peace, and what the war on Gaza means for Zionism.When apartheid in South Africa ended, dismantled by internal activism and global pressure, why did Israel continue to pursue its own apartheid policies against Palestinians? In keeping ...Show more
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
$37.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart. In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman ...Show more
The Forever War by Nick Bryant
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
My Family and Other Rock Stars by Tiffany Murray
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
'Witty and sweet, and perfectly captures the highs and lows of an extraordinary childhood' Andrew Miller 'Tiffany's work is like you look out the window and there it is - the sun dancing in the sky . . . My Family And Other Rock Stars will make you grow wings. Get out there now and buy it. The ghost of ...Show more