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The Penguin Book of Puzzles by Gareth Moore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
A collection of challenges from throughout history, featuring some of the greatest ever puzzle masters.From the riddles of the ancients to puzzles that perplex the greatest minds of today, The Penguin Book of Puzzles is a glorious compendium of conundrums from throughout history.These challenges will re ...Show more
The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice. by Kate Moore
$25.00 AUD
Category: American
'The importance of the brave and blighted dial-painters cannot be overstated.' Sunday Times'A perfect blend of the historical, the scientific and the personal.' Bustle'Thrilling and carefully crafted.' Mail on SundayOrdinary women in 1920s America.All they wanted was the chance to shine.Be careful what ...Show more
The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania by Sam Twyford-Moore
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Writing and mental illness make excellent bedfellows, for better or worse. The Rapids--creative and courageous--is an extraordinary personal memoir peppered with film and literary criticism, as well as family history. With reflections on artists such as Carrie Fisher, Kanye West, Robert Lowell, Delmore ...Show more
The Rite of Spring - The Music of Modernity by Gillian Moore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: The\Landmark Library
On 29 May 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a new ballet by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, received its premiere. Many of the cultural big names of Paris were there, or were rumoured to have been there: Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Gertrude Stein, Picasso. When ...Show more
The Santa Fe House: Enchanting Adobes and Romantic Revivals by Margaret Moore Booker
$99.00 AUD
Category: Interiors
This book presents in detail forty architecturally rich and picturesque houses, ranging from the earliest one-story adobe structures, with flat roofs and an emphasis on utility and simplicity, to today's "Santa Fe style," showing deep roots in Pueblo Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo traditions. It in ...Show more
The Three Little Pigs by Maggie Moore
$13.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years) | Series: Must Know Stories: Level 1
"Little pig, little pig, let me in!" A beautifully illustrated retelling of this favourite traditional story. Join in the refrains and watch as the clever little pig outwits the big, bad wolf. Must Know Stories includes favourite tales, celebrating the diversity of our literary heritage. Level 1 stories ...Show more
The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
$27.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Non Fiction ‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested a ...Show more
The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
$27.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free' The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert's fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran's feared Islamic Revolutionary Gu ...Show more
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future by Peter Moore
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Book of the Week on Radio 4. "Gripping". (The Times). "Exhilarating". (Sunday Times). In an age when a storm was evidence of God's wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma to realise their ambitions. But buoyed by the achievements of the Enlightenment, a gener ...Show more
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future by Peter Moore
$53.00 AUD
Category: Science
In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm-warning system and 'forecasts' would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was evidence o ...Show more
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men who Tried to Make her Disappear by Kate Moore
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary Victorian housewife and mother of six. That was, until the first Woman's Rights Convention was held in 1 ...Show more
The Words of Every Song by Liz Moore
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The highly original debut novel set amid the New York music industry, from the New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River 'A remarkable novel, elegant, wise, and beautifully constructed.' - Roddy Doyle Tommy Mays, Titan Records' biggest act, is verging on a mid-life crisis; learning the ha ...Show more