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Holidays in Hell by O ROURKE
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: O'Rourke, P. J. Ser.
O'Rourke travels to hellholes around the globe--from war-torn Lebanon to Korea to Poland to El Salvador--looking for trouble, the truth, and good times. "A spin with P.J. O'Rourke is like a ride in the back of an old pickup over unpaved roads. You get where you're going fast, with exhilarating views--bu ...Show more
Homecoming by Michael Morpurgo, O.B.E.
$24.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
This is a tender, lyrical tale inspired by the author's childhood in an idyllic English village, with environmental and conservational themes. In this involving tale, master storyteller Michael Morpurgo tells of a boyhood in an idyllic Suffolk village fifty years ago. The village is a stone's throw from ...Show more
King of the Cloud Forests by Michael Morpurgo, O.B.E.
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
Michael Morpurgo is a master storyteller, former Children's Laureate and multi-award winner. This is a fresh reissue of a much-loved story with a beautiful new cover. Escaping from China as the Japanese invade, Ashley and Uncle Sung embark on a perilous journey across the Himalayas. Then Ashley finds hi ...Show more
Kink by Garth Greenwell & R.O. Kwon eds.
$30.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies & Journals
Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and ...Show more
Lanka Food: Serendipity & Spice by O Tama Carey
$55.00 AUD
Category: Food
Lanka Food is a comprehensive guide to Sri Lankan cooking from acclaimed chef and restaurateur O Tama Carey. Sitting on the edge of the Indian Ocean, just below India, is a tiny teardrop-shaped island called Sri Lanka - Lanka is sanskrit for island, in Tamil meaning that which glitters. It is a country ...Show more
Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career - both his successes and ...Show more
Little Albatross by Michael Morpurgo, O.B.E.
$14.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
The last snows of winter are melting away and Little Albatross sits snug in the warmth of Mother Albatross' feathers. He grows bigger and stronger, until one day Mother and Father Albatross go fishing together, leaving Little Albatross alone for the first time. Will they return in time to save him from ...Show more
Little Manfred by Michael Morpurgo, O.B.E.
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years)
The heart-lifting, heartbreaking new story by Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller. In the Imperial War Museum is a wooden Dachshund, carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he stayed after the fighting ended. This is the story of how it got ...Show more
Motion in Classical Literature - Homer, Parmenides, Sophocles, Ovid, Seneca, Tacitus, Art by G. O. Hutchinson
$158.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Classical literature is full of humans, gods, and animals in impressive motion. The specific features of this motion are expressive; it is closely intertwined with decisions, emotions, and character. However, although the importance of space has recently been realized with the advent of the 'spatial tur ...Show more
Mr Skip by Michael Morpurgo, O.B.E.
$9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years)
Believing in magic makes dreams come true...Jackie dreams of having a horse of her own, one that'll be the fastest on the estate, the fastest in all Ireland and the fastest in the world. Mum dreams of a little cottage in the country for her and Jackie to live in. What they get is a garden gnome that Jac ...Show more
Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'An intellectual hero ... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey SachsThe legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most philosophically probing work to date'Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate ...Show more