You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story set in sixteenth-century Mexico A hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story in sixteenth-century Mexico, from the visionary author of Sudden Death One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernan Cortes rode i ...Show more
Sheer - Yves Saint Laurent by Emilie Hammen; Shazia Alcauskas
$70.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery
Published to celebrate a major exhibition at the Museum of Lace and Fashion, Calais, and Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, this book will highlight Yves Saint Laurent's pioneering work in lace and other sheer fabrics, revealing how the couturier was able to overturn codes of unveiling the female body.Thro ...Show more
The Tarot of A. E. Waite and P. Colman Smith by Johannes Fiebig; Mary K. Greer; Rachel Pollack; Robert A. Gilbert
$250.00 AUD
Category: Art
A unique edition of bright texts, brilliant images, and historic reprints, this kit provides everything that both beginners and advanced Tarot users might need and want to read cards for themselves and to study and experience this cultural gem in all its beauty and significance.The valuable collector's ...Show more
The Gourmand's Lemon a Collection of Stories and Recipes by The The Gourmand
$90.00 AUD
Category: Food
The deceptively simple lemon takes center stage in the second volume of TASCHEN's collaboration with The Gourmand, masters of the rich intersection of food and art. The star of Renaissance gardens, that shaped the Medici dynasty, have the power to ward off scurvy, had a hand in forming the mob, and whos ...Show more
Knife Skills For Beginners by Orlando Murrin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Crime
One cookery school. One dead chef. The food is to die for... A locked-room cosy crime novel with a culinary twist. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Robert Thorogood and S. J. Bennett. Richard Osman meets Masterchef. In this cookery school, murder is on the menu... 'Knife Skills for Beginners is a joy. ...Show more
Country Life: 125 Years of Countryside Living in Great Britain from the Archives of Country Li fe by John Goodall, Kate Green
$170.00 AUD
Category: Interiors
Live the romance of the British countryside through this lavish tour of the seasons, landscapes, gardens, and great houses that epitomize British country life, as seen through the eyes of Country Life magazine. For 125 years Country Life has presented its readers with the finest insider’s tour of everyt ...Show more
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Our fear of death has underpinned our religions, inspired our cultures, and also driven our science. Today we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we a ...Show more
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
The Great Atlas of Italian Wines by Alessandro Avataneo; Vittorio Manganelli
$150.00 AUD
Category: Wine
The decisive tool for understanding and knowing how to choose and talk about Italian wines with competence and taste.The Great Atlas of Italian Wines is a journey through Italy as a country of wine. It tells of and illustrates the main denominations, region by region, with a description of the most wide ...Show more
Corker by Hannah Crosbie
$50.00 AUD
Category: Wine
From wine writer and tv presenter Hannah Crosbie, Corker will become the go-to guide that matches wine with life's important (and unimportant) events. So much of what we drink and how we drink it is rooted in occasion. What bottle do you buy the first time you meet the in-laws? What do you order on a d ...Show more
Cheong Liew: Inside My Food: Unlocking the secrets of 100 extraordinary dishes by David Sly
$45.00 AUD
Category: Food
Cheong Liew, declared one of the world's ten hottest chefs at the height of his restaurant fame in the 1990s, is a pioneer of East Meets West fusion cuisine. His extraordinary ideas and creativity have made a profound mark on Australia's food culture. Here we unlock the stories and secrets behind 100 of ...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