Gomorrah - A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
"A "New York Times "Notable Book of the Year"""""A groundbreaking, unprecedented bestseller in Italy, Roberto Saviano's insider account traces the decline of the city of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network more powerful and violent than the Mafia. The Camorra is an elaborate ...Show more
Walking Towards Ourselves: Indian Women Tell Their Stories by Catriona Mitchell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Walking Towards Ourselves gets behind the headlines and finds out what it means to be an Indian woman today. Walk in the shoes of some of India's foremost women writers and thinkers, and go on a journey into their intimate lives, to places you haven't been. From the film sets of Bollywood to a closeted ...Show more
The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger
$30.00 AUD
Category: Middle East | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. In this account of his t ...Show more
No More Champagne Churchill and His Money by David Lough
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
Named a Best Biography of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and The Times of LondonThe fascinating story of Winston Churchill's lifetime of tangled personal financesMeticulously researched by a senior private banker now turned historian, No More Champagne reveals for the first time the full extent of ...Show more
Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention, 1796-1945: 2015 by Michael Farrell
$124.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
From letters to visual poems to even tree carvings, this book examines Australian literature by close reading poetry from the 18th century and on. Michael Farrell's vast collage of material and analysis presents a unique and vivid perspective of colonial life, offering an unsettled space in which to ret ...Show more
This is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
London is a global city. More than half of those who live in the UK's capital came from somewhere else - and most arrived in the last ten years. Migration is transforming London, for better and for worse. Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent. In This Is London, he turns his keen reporter's ey ...Show more
Queer Wars by Dennis Altman & Jonathan Symons
$28.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The claim that 'LGBT rights are human rights' encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to 'LGBT rights' to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and western decadence. Queer Wars expl ...Show more
Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places by Anna Pavord
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first s ...Show more
How to Make a Nation - A Monocle Guide - from how to build the perfect parliament to polishing your soft-power potential - a handbook for ambitious nation-builders and citizens by Monocle
$99.50 AUD
Category: History
Monocle's books with Gestalten have shown you how to build a better life, business, and home. But now Monocle raises the bar: how do you run a great country? They are not talking about might, muscle, or nationalism -although you need a bit of a swagger every now and then. They are talking about a countr ...Show more
Bruce Postle: Women of Australia by Bruce Postle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
For more than five decades, multi-award-winning press photographer Bruce Postle captured significant moments in Australian life. His collection of over 60,000 images is a national treasure chronicling the highs and lows, tragedies and triumphs, heroes and villains of Australian life through the golden a ...Show more
A Kim Jong-Il Production: Kidnap. Torture. Murder. Making Movies North Korean Style by Paul Fischer
$27.00 AUD
Category: Asian
It opens with a double kidnapping...Madame Choi, South Korea's most famous actress, is lured to Hong Kong, drugged and smuggled out on a ship. When her ex-husband, Shin Sang-Ok, Korea's most acclaimed director, goes to look for her, he vanishes too. The pair wake to find themselves in North Korea. There ...Show more
Seneca - A Life by Emily Wilson
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive biography reveals a life lived perilously in the gap betw ...Show more