Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
In 2021, cryptocurrency goes mainstream. Giant investment funds are buying it. Politicians endorse it. TV ads hail it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knows how it works - who cares when everyone is getting rich? But financial crime reporter Zeke Faux cares: even in fraud, there are standards. In t ...Show more
Fish Butchery: Mastering The Catch, Cut And Craft by Josh Niland
$70.00 AUD
Category: Food
James Beard award-winning author and culinary game-changer Josh Niland returns with the ultimate guide to the art of Fish Butchery, with expert techniques and ground-breaking recipes that are an urgent call for action on culinary sustainability. Josh's multi award-winning debut The Whole Fish Cookboo ...Show more
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
‘The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new reality’ JOHN CARREYROU, author of Bad Blood When Kashmir Hill stumbled upon Clearview AI, a mysterious startup selling an app that claimed i ...Show more
The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a dazzling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI. Johnny von Neumann was an enigma. As a young man, he stunned those around him with his monomaniacal pursuit of the unshakeable foundations of ...Show more
The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...Show more
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An urgent, memorable, gut-wrenching novel about motherhood, creativity and identity which is sure to get people talking. A resonant and provocative novel about motherhood from the prize-winning author of The Devil I Know and Tenderwire 'Compelling . . This is a scorching read. I could not put it down.' ...Show more
Our Fragile Moment - How lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis by Michael Mann
$35.00 AUD
Category: Climate
In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperilled if we veer off course. For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has ...Show more
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story - and about who deserves to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cous ...Show more
Life Worth Living by Miroslav Volf; Matthew Croasmun; Ryan McAnnally-Linz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A landmark book answering the greatest philosophical questions of our time, from Yale's leading theologians.What kind of life would be truly worth wanting? What kind of world would be truly worth seeking? How should we live?We are facing a crisis of meaning. Swept up in the obstacles of the day-to-day, ...Show more
The Trade Weapon - How Weaponizing Trade Threatens Growth, Public Health and the Climate Transition (p/b) by Ken Heydon
$32.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Prompted by geostrategic rivalry and the war in Ukraine, COVID-19 and the climate transition, trade policy is increasingly being weaponized. This trend towards protectionist capture and retaliation is self-sabotaging and bad for growth. But there is another way. In this hard-hitting book, Ken Heydon off ...Show more
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Rise and Fall of the American Dream by DAVID. LEONHARDT
$37.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR) The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The Morning" newsletter. Two decades into the twenty-first ...Show more