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The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighbourhood
David Simon and Ed Burns
$34.95 (Paperback book / Canongate )
A devastating portrait of the American drugs war, from the creators of the award-winning series The Wire.
The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known—and cautiously avoided—by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner’s 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad.
Through the eyes of one broken family—two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough—Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the country and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and ...
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The Plague
Albert Camus
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay
The Bodysurfers
Robert Drewe
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
The Witches Of Eastwick
John Updike
Monkey Grip
Helen Garner
Carnegie Medal and Kate Greenaway Medal 2009 winners
Bog Child
$19.95 (Paperback book / Red Fox Books )
Winner of the 2009 Carnegie Medal
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him... More »
Harris Finds His Feet
$25.99 (Hardcover book / Koala Books )
Winner of the 2009 Kate Greenaway Medal
Harris was a very small hare with very big feet. "Why do I have such enormous feet, Grand dad?" Harris sighed . . . Grand dad shows Harris how to hop high into the sky, to climb t... More »
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Movie Books
Cheri
Colette
Wake In Fright
Kenneth Cook
Balibo
Jill Joliffe
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee
Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia
Roberto Saviano
New Teenage Fiction
Magic Flutes
Eva Ibbotson
The Visconti House
Elsbeth Edgar
Letters To Leonardo
Dee White
Devil's Kiss
Sarwat Chadda
The Ask and the Answer: Chaos Walking Book Two
Patrick Ness
Being Nikki: Airhead Book Two
Meg Cabot
New Graphic Novels
Cecil and Jordan in New York
Gabrielle Bell
A Drifting Life: The Epic Autobiography Of A Manga Master
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
32 Stories: Special Edition Box Set
Adrian Tomine
Angel: After The Fall: Volume One
Brian Lynch with Joss Whedon
New Biographies and Memoirs
Traitors And Turncoats
Ian Crofton
Blood Dark-Track: A Family History
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The Lost Child
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New Poetry
History Of The Day
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Pepper )
At that old station on North Head
Inmates still tread the boards,
Or something does; equipment there records
The voices in the dormitories and wards,
Although it’s years abandoned. Undeleted,
What happened is embedded ... More »
Endpoint And Other Poems
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )
Includes a series of connected poems which were written on the occasions of the author's birthdays. This title features poems that look back on the boy that the author once was, on his family and little town and the circ... More »
New Cultural Studies
10 Songs That Changed The World
June Skinner Sawyers
Lawn: A Social History
Peter Macinnis
The Lost Art Of Sleep
Michael McGirr
New Australian Studies
Monument For The Flooding Of Royal Park
$29.95 (Paperback book / Schwartz )
Monument For The Flooding Of Royal Park is the elaboration of the video work of the same title into the form of a book. This video work evolved through a Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria and was exhib... More »
The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press )
Have Australian Aboriginal communities become places of increased suffering because of the progressive policies of the 1970s–2000s? In this provocative book, Australia's leading anthropologist, Peter Sutton, looks at the... More »
Redemption of a Slave Ship: The James Matthews
$45.00 (Hardcover book / Western Australian Museum )
In 1807 the Atlantic slave trade was made illegal. However, over the next fifty years, millions of kidnapped Africans continued to be transported unwillingly to the sugar plantations of the New World. The James Matthews,... More »
The Bardia Myth: Reality And The Heirs Of Anzacs
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Nsw University Pr )
On 3 January 1941 Australian soldiers led an assault against the Italian colonial fortress town of Bardia. Two days later, after 55 hours of heavy fighting, the position fell to the Australians in a resounding victory. A... More »
New True Crime Books
Friends Of The Family: The Inside Story Of The Mafia Cops Case
$27.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
The most notorious case in NYPD history: the honest cop and district attorney who broke New York's coldest case and put two dirty detectives who murdered for the mob in jail.
On 10 March 2005‚ two highly decorated detect... More »
Pimp: The Story Of My Life
$24.95 (Paperback book / Canongate )
The ultimate anti-hero, Iceberg Slim takes you into the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, the sounds, the fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his sto... More »
Born Or Bred? Martin Bryant: The Making Of A Mass Murderer
$34.99 (Paperback book / Fairfax )
Martin Bryant murdered 35 people and injured 37 during the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania in 1996, a crime for which he is serving 35 life sentences in Hobart’s Risdon Prison. It remains one of the largest single massa... More »
Biker Chicks: The Magnetic Attraction of Women to Bad Boys and Motorbikes
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
A revealing portrait of the mysterious role of women in bikers' clubs. Popular images of scantily-clad females who are little more than slaves don't do justice to the rich history and culture of the many women who have c... More »
New Audio Books
The Women In Black (Audio CD)
Madeleine St John
Selections From New Australian Stories
Kennedy Kate / Barry Max Et Al
Sylvester Abridged Audio
Georgette Heyer
Poison Belt Unabridged Audio
Doyle Arthur Conan
Music And Silence Abridged Audio
Rose Tremain
New History
The Fall Of Empires
Cormac O'Brien
Inside The Stalin Archives: Discovering The New Russia
Jonathan Brent
The History Of The Mafia
Salvatore Lupo
Balibo
Jill Joliffe
1959: The Year Everything Changed
Fred Kaplan
D-Day: The Battle For Normandy
Antony Beevor
New Politics
Spectre At The Feast: Capitalist Crisis And The Politics Of Recession
Andrew Gamble
$39.95 (Paperback book / Palgrave )
New Business Books
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Charles R Morris
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
This Little Kiddy Went To Market The Corporate Capture Of Childhood
Sharon Beder
$39.95 (Paperback book / Nsw University Pr )
New Natural History
Wildflower
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Orion )
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Roger's World: Towards A New Understanding Of Animals
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Roger’s World unfolds over the course of Charles Siebert’s last night with Roger, a chimpanzee in a Florida retirement home for former ape entertainers: stars of the big screen, TV, and Big Top circuses. Of the 46 retire... More »
New Science
Mythbusters Hollywood Or Bust
Nicholas Searle
Gene Cartels Biotech Patents In The Age Of Free Trade
Luigi Palombi
Science: A Four Thousand Year History
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Lewis Wolpert
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Dom Philips
Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?
Stephen Cummings
New Travel Writing
The Riverbones: Stumbling After Eden In The Jungles Of Suriname
Andrew Westoll
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )
New Environment Books
Simple Steps Deck
$29.95 (Pack / Chronicle Books )
Follow these 50 tips, and in no time at all, you'll be able to make your home healthy and safe. Organized room by room, this deck provides green solutions for the whole house, inside and out. With tips like using all-nat... More »
Time To Eat The Dog The Real Guide To Sustainable Living
$45.00 (Paperback book / Thames And Hudson )
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The Water Dreamers: How Water & Silence Shaped Australia The
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
* The long-awaited history that will change the way Australians think about their country.
The Water Dreamers is the story of the settlement of Australia: of the scarcity of water and the need to fill an imagined sile... More »
Eco-Sufficiency And Global Justice
$82.95 (Paperback book / Pluto Press )
Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology explores the issues of democracy and sustainability. This book brings academics and alternative globalisation activists into conversation. About issues su... More »
New Food and Wine Books
Little Italy
$49.95 (Paperback book / Murdoch Books )
In 'Little Italy', Italian food writer Laura Zavan uncovers the fascinating culinary history of her beloved homeland. From antipasti to pizza, pasta, gnocchi, risotto and sweets, Little Italy combines your favourite Ital... More »
Vefa's Kitchen
$69.95 (Hardcover book / )
Vefa's Kitchen is the first authoritative and all-encompassing Greek recipe book in English. Doing for Greek cuisine what the hugely successful "Silver Spoon" did for Italian, it contains more than 700 fully updated, str... More »
Barossa Wine Traveller
$19.95 (Paperback book / Wine Press )
Barossa Wine Traveller is a guide book to the wineries and attractions of the Barossa, featuring the stories and anecdotes that capture the people, places, tastes and history of the Barossa. The book will contain snippet... More »
Australian Wine Vintages 2010
$34.99 (Hardcover book / )
For 2010 Australian Wine Vintages, The Gold Book has been totally revised and updated. The book has moved from being a rich source of wine information to being Australia’s richest source of wine advice for the wine inter... More »
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Treasures Of Andy Warhol
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Blood Language
Judy Watson
Your Bright Future 12 Contemporary Artists From Korea
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Out Of Now The Lifeworks Of Tehching Hsieh
Adrian Heathfield
Van Dyck In Britain
Karen Hearn
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