All Against All The Winter Of 1933 by Paul Jankowski
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times; and the victors of 1918 fell out acrimoniously over ...Show more
The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime
A tense, stunningly well-observed heist novel following an American woman on the run in the blazing heat of Bangkok, from 'a modern Graham Greene' (Sunday Times) Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Arriving with a suitcase containing $200,000, sh ...Show more
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Natasha Trethewey was born in Mississippi in the 60s to a black mother and a white father. When she was six, Natasha's parents divorced, and she and her mother moved to Atlanta. There, her mother met the man who would become her second husband, and Natasha's stepfather. While she was still a child, Nat ...Show more
Listri. Cabinet of Curiosities XXL by Giulia Carciotto
$260.00 AUD
Category: Art
The Wunderkammer, or "cabinet of curiosities," saw collectors gathering objects from many strands of artistic, scientific, and intellectual endeavor, in an ambitious attempt to encompass all of humankind's knowledge in a single room. From the Grand Duke Francesco I de' Medici and Holy Roman Emperor Rudo ...Show more
Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
$13.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about th ...Show more
The Tunnel by A.b. Yehoshua; Stuart Schoffman (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a suspenseful and poignant story of a family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father--an engineer who they discover is involved in an ominous secret military project Until recently, Zvi Luria was a he ...Show more
The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Trump's National Security Advisor took detailed notes. The result is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration from a senior advisor who had served three previous presidents over 30 years, with stunning revelations about happened inside the most powerful room in the nati ...Show more
Frank Ramsey - A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak
$50.95 AUD
Category: General
When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an equal. Had he lived he might have been ...Show more
Without Ever Reaching the Summit by Paolo Cognetti
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth, from the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he had always wanted to make: to Dolpo, a remote Himalayan region where Nepal meets Tibet. He took with him two ...Show more
Vesper Flights - New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
For centuries, Tibet was known as a hermit kingdom. Its charms were hidden by the natural barrier of the Himalayas to its west and by a reclusive theocratic government ruled by a succession of Dalai Lamas...Nowadays it is not the Tibetans shutting the door, but a paranoid Chinese Communist Party. China ...Show more
Analogia by Dyson, George
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
In a world where humans coexist with technologies they no longer control or understand, who holds the future?George Dyson plots a thrilling and unexpected course through 300 years of history and science to reveal the hidden connections that underpin the digital transformation of the current age, ending ...Show more