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Just Kids
Patti Smith
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe.
It was the summer that Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames and China exploded the H-bomb. There were riots in Newark and marches against the war in Vietnam. The world was on the brink of change. It was the summer of love. And the summer of a chance encounter that would change the course of my life. It was the summer I met Robert.
Just Kids is the story of two innocents who shared sheltered lives and braved the city in search of art and freedom. In each other Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith found kindred spirits and pursued their mutual dreams, from Brooklyn to the Chelsea Hotel and into the world. Each would eventually reach the p...
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The Little Stranger
$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
$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
$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
$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 »
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast For The 21st Century
$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
$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 »
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Yvonne Louis
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New Classic Editions
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
$27.99 (Paperback book / Phoenix House )
Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine mechante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French monarchy; her indifference to ... More »
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
$27.99 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
‘Down,
down,
down. Would the fall never come to an end!'
Since its publication in 1865, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has delighted the world with a wildly imaginative and unforgettable journey, insp... More »
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Palm Island Through A Long Lens
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New Anthologies and Journals
Meanjin Vol 69 Number 1
$24.99 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
THE MARCH EDITION OF MEANJIN LOOKS AT CHARISMA: OF RELIGION, OF SCIENCE, OF TEACHERS.
We also launch Meanland, an exciting new collaboration with Overland (www.meanland.com.au) with an article by McKenzie Wark on copygif... More »
McSweeney's No. 33: The San Francisco Panorama
$26.95 (Paperback book / Mcsweeneys )
Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterly will be a one-time-only, Sunday-edition sized newspaper—the San Francisco Panorama. It'll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) and sports and arts coverage, and comics (... More »
Kill Your Darlings: Issue One
$18.00 (Paperback book / Kill Your Darlings Pty Ltd )
Kill Your Darlings is a new literary journal of fiction, commentary and investigative journalism, essays and reviews. Kill Your Darlings publishes work that has fresh, intelligent angles, is anecdotal but informed, and s... More »
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Best European Fiction 2010
$24.95 (Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press )
Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writ... More »
New Essays, Language & Reference Books
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A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage: The First Edition
H.W. Fowler, David Crystal (Ed)
New Poetry
Out Of The Box: Contemporary Australian Gay And Lesbian Poets
Michael Farrell and Jill Jones (Eds)
$30.00 (Paperback book / Puncher And Wattmann )
New Crime Fiction
The Janus Stone
Elly Griffiths
Hell Gate
Linda Fairstein
A Dark Matter
Peter Straub
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Tokyo Vice
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, here is a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.
At the age of 19,... More »
The Dark Side
$24.95 (Paperback book / Kerr )
Roger Rogerson hasn't been a police officer for more than 20 years. Yet his name makes him the most well-known 'detective-sergeant' in Australia. He has been the subject of articles, appearances, profiles and books; port... More »
Blood Money: Bikies, Terrorists And Middle Eastern Gangs
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
A meticulously researched and revealing expose of the new players in organised crime.
Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has b... More »
Underbelly: The Golden Mile
$24.99 (Paperback book / Floradale )
It's 1989 and the cops are on the take and the crims are on the make. They are kings of the Cross. They run the street that put the sin in Sin City. The Golden Mile. Kim Hollingsworth is a policeman's daughter who wants ... More »
New Politics
Reporting Conflict: New Directions In Peace Journalism
Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung
Nothing But The Truth: Selected Dispatches
Anna Politkovskaya
Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs
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New History
The Pacific
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
The official companion book to The Pacific, the new HBO miniseries from the producers of Band of Brothers
This is a gripping piece of historical writing following the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. ... More »
Tooth And Nail: The Story Of The Rabbit In Australia
$25.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
When the First Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove in 1788, its cargo included a small number of rabbits. A hundred years later rabbits had colonised vast areas of the continent, bringing irreversible change to the country’s ec... More »
Zero Hour: The Anzacs On The Western Front
$19.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
The First World War was only meant to last six months. When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had been going for a year and a half and there was no end in sight. The me... More »
The Hedgehog And The Fox
$22.99 (Paperback book / Phoenix House )
'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been... More »
New Cultural Studies
Living Oprah: My One Year Experiment To Walk The Walk Of Queen Of Talk
$29.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
′That shirt is totally cutting that lady in half. It′s a really bad length for her body type.′ ′Excuse me?′, I froze for a moment. Then I calmly asked my husband where he learned to say such a thing and he looked sheepis... More »
You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen Lane )
Jaron Lanier's long-awaited book is fabulous – I couldn't put it down and shouted out Yes! Yes! on many pages. Lanier is a rare voice of sanity in the debate about the relationship between computers and we human beings.... More »
Gay Life And Culture: A World History
$59.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson )
This is the first ever comprehensive, global account of gay history and includes an extensive selection of images, many of them only recently recovered. From Theocritus verses to Queer as Folk, this extraordinarily wide-... More »
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
$29.95 (Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton )
Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shie... More »
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Charlotte Lance
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Stormlord Rising: Watergivers Book Two
Glenda Larke
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Robert Rankin
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Karen Chance
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Cory Doctorow
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John Stanley
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John Stanley
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Abla's Lebanese Kitchen
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The Great Aussie Family Cookbook
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
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Jacques Reymond
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New Natural History
The Life And Love Of Trees
$80.00 (Hardcover book / Headline )
Trees are vital - the roots and the shelter for our existence. Without them we simply wouldn't be here. From that starting point, Lewis Blackwell celebrates and explores the miracle of the tree in our lives today. In hig... More »
Seeing Further: 350 Years Of The Royal Society And Scientific Endeavour
$49.95$44.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
Since its inception in 1660, the Royal Society has pioneered scientific discovery and exploration. The oldest scientific academy in existence, its backbone is its Fellowship of the most eminent scientists in history incl... More »
The Secret Life of Birds: Who They Are and What They Do
$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk )
With illustrations by Jane Milloy
'Enjoyable … entertaining … masterful' Stephen Moss, Guardian
'Simply fizzing with ideas … his heart is with the birds' Literary Review &nb... More »
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View Of Science And Nature
$24.95 (Paperback book / W W Norton )
“Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions,” said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts. For more than two ... More »
New Science Books
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Picador )
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - become one of the most imp... More »
The Warmth Of The Heart Prevents Your Body From Rusting
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
‘It’s up to us, the baby boomers, to invent a new art of growing old — which is a paradox, since it means accepting the inevitability of ageing without becoming “old”.’ Respected psychologist and psychotherapist Marie de... More »
Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose
$37.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
Our instincts—for food, sex, or territorial protection— evolved for life on the savannahs 10,000 years ago, not in today’s world of densely populated cities, technological innovations, and pollution. We now have access t... More »
Natural Experiments Of History
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr )
Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science con... More »
New Psychology Books
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George W Burns
The Gift Of Therapy
Irvin D. Yalom
Ethical Practice In Psychology
Alfred Allan and Anthony Love (Eds)
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Sue Brayne
New Travel Writing
Destination Saigon: Adventures In Vietnam
Walter Mason
$24.99 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
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Country Driving: Three Journeys Across A Changing China
Peter Hessler
$36.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
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The Cambridge Companion To The Beatles
Kenneth Womack
Mother Of Rock: The Lillian Roxon Story
Robert Milliken
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What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations with a Rock and Roll Survivor
Jessica Pallington West
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Michael Lewis
The Great Depression Ahead: How To Prosper In The Crash That Follows The Greatest Boom In History
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Raj Patel
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Mireille Guiliano
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Intimacy And Desire: Awaken The Passion In Your Relationship
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Low desire, no desire, and mismatched desire are the most common love-life problems.
? Unresolved desire difficulties cause marital dissatisfaction, emotional alienation, limited intimacy, extramarital affairs, divorce, ... More »
Forgiveness And Other Acts Of Love
$26.99 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
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Accidentally Single
$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Accidentally Single, by John Aiken the author of U-Turn: Putting You Back Into Your Relationship. More »
- Do your relationships fizzle out before they get started?
- Do you have more dating disasters than successes?
- Are you often...
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Aquinas A Very Short Introduction
Fergus Kerr
Step By Step Basic Buddhist Meditations
Geshe Wangchen
50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists
Russell Blackford and Udo Schuklenk
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In Defence Of The Enlightenment
$35.00 (Hardcover book / Atlantic Books )
In this profound and provocative new book internationally renowned thinker Tzvetan Todorov defends the role of the Enlightenment as the philosophical cornerstone of the modern world and argues that the wisdom of the Enli... More »
How Philosophy Can Save Your Life
$23.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Group Usa )
Discover how great philosophers can help you live a more purposeful and peaceful life.
This inspiring new book from the bestselling author of Little Big Minds reveals how the heartbeats of philosophy- clear thinking, qui... More »
Thinking Of Answers
$35.00 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
Thought-provoking short essays that show us how to discover our own answers to life's challenges.
A.C. Grayling is a thinker who believes that philosophy is a natural part of everyday life. Here, in his most stimulating ... More »
On Kindness
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk )
What is kindness?
Does it make us happier?
And does it have a place in a selfish world?
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history,... More »
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