Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
$40.00 AUD
Category: General
"A pitch-perfect memoir: stylish, erudite, touchingly honest and darkly funny." Jacqueline Wilson"We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time ... But sometimes we are unlucky enough to be on the trapdoor when the lever is pulled. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting ro ...Show more
Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A multi-award winning, 1.5 millon copy Japanese besteller about four friends pitted against each other in the drama of an international piano competition. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami. The tender and compelling drama of four young pianists as they compete in an international p ...Show more
Kung Pao and Beyond - Fried Chicken Recipes from East and Southeast Asia by Susan Jung
$45.00 AUD
Category: Food
"A hymn to the joys of fried chicken, with irresistible recipes and invaluable cooking tips. If you don't already love eating fried chicken as much as Susan Jung does, you will after cooking from this book." - Fuchsia Dunlop "This book is filled with delicious, fragrant recipes from East and Southeast ...Show more
Rice Table: Korean Recipes and Stories to Feed the Soul by Su Scott
$50.00 AUD
Category: Food
"Su has written a beautiful account of how food can help rebuild culture from treasured memories, how it conveys love and connection, and how it can ground us when we feel untethered. The recipes are totally tantalising - and thanks to Su's guidance, entirely achievable even for novices." - Tim Anderson ...Show more
Ascension by Nicholas Binge
$33.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy
A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human. IF YOU EVER READ THIS TELL OTHERS DON’T COME HERE. When a mounta ...Show more
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf
$60.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it. We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy ...Show more
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Ash Garton
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
'A moving love letter to Europe' - Lea Ypi, author of FreeHomelands is a stunning blend of contemporary history, investigative reporting and intimate memoir by our greatest writer about Europe.Drawing on half a century of travel and thinking, Homelands tells the story of Europe since its emergence from ...Show more
Pathogenesis - How infectious diseases shaped human history by Jonathan Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Humans did not make history - we played host. This book is Guns, Germs and Steel without the guns and steel, Sapiens for the pandemic era. A major new history of the world. This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo s ...Show more
A House for Alice by Diana Evans
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from Diana Evans, the prizewinning and much-loved author of Ordinary PeopleAlice wants to go home to die but is not certain when this will be. Her three daughters are divided on whether she stays or goes, and tasked with realising her dream of a house in Nigeria, conflict stirs and old wou ...Show more
Greek Lessons by Han Kang
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian, In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woma ...Show more
Enough: Scenes from Childhood by Stephen Hough
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
An engrossing and frank coming-of-age memoir from one of the world's leading pianists. "Stephen Hough's memoir had me gripped from the beginning [ ...] riveting and revelatory. Most memoirs give me far more than I want to know - this is the rare sort that left me urgently demanding a second volume, a th ...Show more
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism- the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. 'A sparkling gem of a book. Beautifully written and masterfully researched, this has the makings of a classic' Peter Frankopan ...Show more