The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis

$39.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )

The Big Short tells a story of spectacular, epic folly.

It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international bestseller Liar's Poker expo... More »

Quarterly Essay 37: On The Future Of Conservatism: Where The Right Went Wrong
Waleed Aly

$19.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )

What did George W. Bush and John Howard do to conservatism? In their wake, the conservative parties in the US and Australia seem to have lost their way – they no longer have a vision of the future. Their neoconservative ... More »

The Good Soldiers
David Finkel

$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

It was the last-chance moment of the war.

In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as ‘the surge’. ‘Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when pr... More »

Stripping Bare The Body: Politics, Violence, War
Mark Danner

$39.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )

Stripping Bare the Body shows at close hand how terrorism works and how war looks and smells and feels. Drawing on rich narratives of politics and violence and war from around the world, Stripping Bare the Body is a mora... More »

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Trouble: Evolution Of A Radical, Selected Writings 1970-2010
Kate Jennings

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )

In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally into silence with a pull-no-punches speech calling for women’s empowerment. Brave, impassioned and searingly funny, it set the tone for an unconventional... More »

Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs
Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons

$59.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )

Malcolm Fraser is one of the most interesting and possibly most misunderstood of Australia's Prime Ministers. In this part memoir and part authorised biography, Fraser at the age of 79 years talks about his time in publi... More »

The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters

$24.99 (Paperback book / Little Brown )

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, ... More »

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Water For Elephants
Sara Gruen

$23.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

This is a great, glorious, big-hearted novel set in a travelling circus touring the backblocks of America during the Great Depression of the early 1930s. It's a story of love and hate, trains and circuses, dwarves and fa... More »

Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan

$19.99 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

Tender Morsels has won tremendous acclaim around the world. It is fiercely poetic, exquisite and unforgettable. Fantasy at its heart-wrenching best.

Liga's life is filled with dark hearts and foul deeds. So she chooses a... More »

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson

$24.95 (Paperback book / Murdoch Books )

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. Harriet's uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family - the deeply... More »

Review

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast For The 21st Century
George Friedman

$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )

“Predictions have made George Friedman a hot property these days.” –The Wall Street Journal

In The Next 100 Years, George Friedman offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the wo... More »

The Brain That Changes Itself
Norman Doidge

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, e... More »

Bernstein Mass, 2 CD Set
Jubilant Sykes, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop

$19.95$13.95 (Compact disc / Naxos )

Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice, September 2009

Jubilant Sykes (baritone)

Morgan State University Choir, Peabody Children's Chorus, Morgan State University Marching Band & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Also... More »

C P E Bach - Complete Flute Concertos, 2 CD Set
Patrick Gallois, Toronto Chamber Orchestra, Kevin Mallon

$19.95$13.95 (Compact disc / Naxos )

Penguin Guide Rosette Winner

Bach, C P E:

Flute Concerto in A minor, Wq.166/H.430

Flute Concerto in B flat major, Wq.167/H.435

Sonata in A minor for solo flute W132

Flute Concerto in A major, Wq.168/H.438

Flute Concerto ... More »

JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set (1927-1939)
Pablo Casals

$19.95$13.95 (Compact disc / Naxos Historical )

Readings Staff Recommend - Building a Classical Library

A double album from Naxos Historical, featuring the legendary cellist Pablo Casals (1876-1973). He developed a highly personal florid style of playing, dismissed by... More »

Faure: Requiem, Messe Basse, Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11
Oxford Schola Cantorum, Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly

$12.95$8.95 (Compact disc / Naxos )

Readings Staff Recommend - Building a Classical Library

Lisa Beckley (soprano), Colm Carey (organ), Nicholas Gedge (bass-baritone)

Fauré:

Requiem, Op. 48

Messe basse

Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11

Severac: Tantum ergo More »

The Open Road
Michael Meredith

$19.95 (Digital video disc / Idt Home Entertainment )

When Carlton's mum becomes ill he has to take an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle. Knowing his dad's charming yet painfully immature likelihood to disappoint, Carlto... More »

Twin Peaks: Season One
David Lynch

$69.95$24.95 (Digital video disc / Paramount Pictures )

This release includes the first season of director David Lynch's shockingly original television series. When its two-hour pilot episode aired on April 8, 1990, the program forever changed the face of prime-time televisio... More »

Twin Peaks: Season Two, Part One
David Lynch

$49.95$24.95 (Digital video disc / Paramount Pictures )

From MARK FROST and DAVID LYNCH (The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive), the wildly imaginative, darkly comic mystery thriller series that became one of the most acclaimed events in television history, Twin... More »

Twin Peaks: Season Two, Part Two
David Lynch

$32.95$24.95 (Digital video disc / Paramount Pictures )

From MARK FROST and DAVID LYNCH (The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive), the wildly imaginative, darkly comic mystery thriller series that became one of the most acclaimed events in television history, Twin... More »

Deadwood: The Complete First Season

$64.95$29.95 (Digital video disc / )

1876, the Black Hills of South Dakota, two weeks after Custer's last stand. Witness the birth of an American frontier town - and the ruthless power struggle between its just and unjust pioneers. In an age of plunder and ... More »

Deadwood: The Complete Second Season

$64.95$29.95 (Digital video disc / )

A new day is dawning in Deadwood... The spring of 1877 brings major changes to the teeming outlaw camp of Deadwood, as civilization makes its way to town. New arrivals will usher in an era of power struggles with the cam... More »