Non-Fiction Highlights
Out of Shape: Debunking Myths About Fashion Sizing and Fit
$24.95 – Paperback / Affirm Press
From corsets to skinny jeans, we have always fretted about our body shapes and why it's so damn difficult to find a good fit.In this bold and entertaining book, Mel Campbell examines the tensions between our cultural... Buy or find out more→
Life in Ten Houses: A Memoir
$9.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
The internationally celebrated writer Sonya Hartnett is firmly Melburnian but has restlessly moved from suburb to suburb in her search for the 'Last House' - that special corner of the world in which to settle and find... Buy or find out more→
The Misogyny Factor
$19.99 – Paperback / NewSouth Publishing
In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks of their delivery Prime Minister Julia Gillards own speech about misogyny and sexism went... Buy or find out more→
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
In the tradition of Helen Garner's The First Stone comes another closely observed, controversial book about sex, consent and power. At the centre of it is Anna Krien's account of the rape trial of a footballer. Both a... Buy or find out more→
The Good Life
$29.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Social researcher and psychologist Hugh Mackay has spent 40 years asking Australians about their lives, loves, hopes, ambitions, fears and passions. In The Good Life, he asks and answers the ultimate question: What... Buy or find out more→
Amrita Sher-Gil: A Life
$16.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
Amrita Sher-Gil lived life on her own terms, scandalizing the staid society of her times. In this biography, the author paints a compelling portrait of the artist who, when she died in 1941 at the age of twenty-eight, left behind... Buy or find out more→
Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World
$29.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
A fabulously provocative collection by women ready to destroy the joint. Buy or find out more→
Seven Elements That Have Changed the World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon
$29.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
With carbon we access heat, light and mobility at the flick of a switch, while silicon enables us to communicate across the globe in an instant. Yet our use of the Earth's mineral resources is not always for the benefit of... Buy or find out more→
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
$24.95 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
A new roundup of personal essays from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favourite Humorist. Buy or find out more→
Gurrumul: His Life and Music
$54.95 – Hardback / ABC Books
From concert halls to recording studios and into Aboriginal heartlands, this is the story of Australia′s Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. This unique Indigenous man is one of the most inspiring music stories of our generation. Buy or find out more→
Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
$32.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Forty-One False Starts is a brilliant collection of essays from one of the world's great writers of literary non-fiction.Janet Malcolm, writes David Lehman in the Boston Globe, ‘is among the most... Buy or find out more→
Women and Power
$27.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The empowerment of women it is one of the most remarkable revolutions of the past century. But like all good revolutions it is still not settled.In a generation women have taken control of their economic fate, risen to... Buy or find out more→
All Good Things
$24.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
For many people, finding the love of your life and moving to Paris would come pretty close to having it all. Having shared her story in the bestselling Almost French, Sarah Turnbull seemed to have had more than her fair share... Buy or find out more→
The Crafty Minx at Home: 50+ Handmade & Upcycled Projects for Living
$39.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
A gorgeous guide to creating an original, appealing and handmade home, The Crafty Minx at Home is all about the joy of making things by hand so as to create a uniquely personal home around your favourite people.
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live
$34.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
A whip-smart, brilliantly researched expos of pseudoscientific myths about our evolutionary past and how we should live today. Buy or find out more→
Cocaina: A Book on Those Who Make it
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
When the world's greatest 'King of Cocaine', Pablo Escobar, was killed in 1993 in a joint military operation undertaken by the CIA, the Colombian military, and Escobar's enemies, the entire world celebrated the event, thinking... Buy or find out more→
A Year in the Life of Face Hunter
$29.95 – Paperback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
It’s not about fashion people inspiring fashion people anymore – it’s about real life inspiring real people, all over the world. Following the runaway success of his first book, pioneering street fashion... Buy or find out more→
The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism
$24.95 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A number of books in recent years--notably those by Christopher Hitchens, Richards Dawkins and Sam Harris--have taken issue with religion. A. C. Grayling is the first to deal with all the arguments against religion and, equally... Buy or find out more→
Fifty Shades of Feminism
$24.99 – Hardback / Little, Brown Book Group
Fifty years after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant... Buy or find out more→
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths
$39.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
By nature volatile and discordant, the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy silence as their birthright.' In a book which is by turns chilling and beautiful, John... Buy or find out more→
Hanging Man: the Arrest of Ai Weiwei
$29.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
In October 2010, Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds appeared in the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern. In April 2011, he was arrested and held for over two months. The most famous living Chinese artist and activist, Weiwei is a figure of... Buy or find out more→
Unsuitable for Publication: Editing Queen Victoria
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, two literary gentlemen took on a monumental task: selecting and editing her vast correspondence. The book they produced would influence perceptions of Victoria for generations to come - but it... Buy or find out more→
Paris Sketchbook
$35.00 – Hardback / Laurence King Publishing
During his time on fashion assignments at the Couture shows in Paris, Jason Brooks developed a fascination for the city, drawing and painting travel journals that demonstrate his passion for all things Parisian. This book offers a... Buy or find out more→
This Will Make You Smarter
$19.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
"This Will Make You Smarter" presents brilliant but accessible cutting-edge ideas that will improve everyone's decision-making, with contributions by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and... Buy or find out more→
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
'Happy again, back in the kingdom of light,' writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey though the continent he knows and loves best. Having travelled down the right-hand side of Africa in Dark Star Safari, he... Buy or find out more→
Anatomies: The Human Body, Its Parts and the Stories They Tell
$27.99 – Paperback / Penguin Putnam Inc
Takes you on a journey through the art, science, literature and history of the human body. This book includes topics ranging from ancient body art to plastic surgery, as well as our changing attitudes to the human body - how it... Buy or find out more→
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
$39.95 – Hardback / Little, Brown Book Group
An engaging and provocative look at culture, from one of our best-known historians. Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the... Buy or find out more→
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John
$32.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The compelling story of one of Australia's finest female novelists, Helen Trinca has captured the troubled life of Madeleine St John in this moving account of a remarkable writer. Buy or find out more→
Mr Snack and the Lady Water: Travel Tales from My Lost Years
$24.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
After a decade spent on the road, renowned travel writer Brendan Shanahan is back with Mr Snack and the Lady Water, a collection of darkly funny and unexpected travel writing. In the title piece, Shanahan embarks on what... Buy or find out more→
The Book of My Lives
$32.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
This is the first nonfiction book - searing, revealing, unforgettable - from one of our most acclaimed writers. Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed by... Buy or find out more→
Spectrums: Our Mind-boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity
$29.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Blatner blends narrative and illustration to illuminate the variety of spectrums that affect lives every day: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time. Buy or find out more→
Footy Town: Stories of Australia's Game
$34.95 – Paperback / Malarkey Publications
Footy Town is a collection of football yarns from around the nation; stories which celebrate footy at its most local: from New Norfolk to the Tiwi Islands, from Rockhampton to Kalgoorlie, from Edwardstown to Fitzroy, and... Buy or find out more→
Political Animal
$19.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
The essential work on Tony Abbott is now an expanded, updated short book - and a crucial election-year companion. Buy or find out more→
1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
$19.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Winner of the 2013 Tasmanian Book Prize Winner of the 2012 Age Book of the Year In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In... Buy or find out more→
Welcome to Your New Life
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
When Anna Goldsworthy, pianist and perfectionist, falls pregnant with her first child, her excitement is tempered by the daunting journey ahead. In Welcome to Your New Life, she shares the dizzying wonder and crippling... Buy or find out more→
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
$34.95 – Paperback / Ebury Press
Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether they'd feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion, or equal pay, and some reticence... Buy or find out more→
Holy Hell
$24.95 – Paperback / Fontaine Press
When Senior NSW Police Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox told the ABC’s Lateline programme on November 8, 2012, that the Catholic Church had covered up crimes by paedophile priests, silenced investigations and destroyed... Buy or find out more→
Winter Journal
$29.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
In Winter Journal, Auster presents the abandonment of the family by his father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother; love found again late in life, a love that was short-lived; her troubled... Buy or find out more→
Saul Steinberg
$59.95 – Hardback / Random House USA Inc
The issue date was March 29, 1976. The New Yorker cost 75 cents. And on the cover unfolded Saul Steinberg's vision of the world: New York City, the Hudson River, and then...well, it's really just a bunch of stuff you needn't... Buy or find out more→
Contagious
$29.99 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
How to make products, ideas and behaviours really catch on. Buy or find out more→
Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives
$29.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
This is the book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes and... Buy or find out more→
Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future
$19.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
'During the term of the Rudd and Gillard governments, criticism of the Labor Party became a national pastime.' So writes Mark Latham, a one-time leader of the party and still its most perceptive - and fiercest - critic. In... Buy or find out more→
Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
$34.00 – Paperback / Acumen Publishing Ltd
In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made for the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture and society. The belief that human beings... Buy or find out more→
Things I Didn't Expect (when I Was Expecting)
$24.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Pregnancy is natural, healthy and fun, right? Sure it is, if you’re lucky. For others, it’s an adventure in physical discomfort, unachievable ideals, kooky classes and meddling experts. When Monica Dux found herself... Buy or find out more→
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think
$32.99 – Paperback / John Murray General Publishing Division
We are witnessing the beginnings of a revolution. Big data - the explosion of information that digitisation has sparked - is changing our world in ways we are just starting to appreciate. Since... Buy or find out more→
Ghost Wife: A Memoir of Love and Defiance
$24.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Michelle Dicinoski has found the love of her life -- and now she just wants to get married and live happily ever after. The only problem is, she's in love with an American woman, Heather, and neither Australia nor America... Buy or find out more→
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
$34.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
In the political unrest that swept across the Arab region in 2011, all eyes were on the streets erupting in protest. But the author has been looking at upheaval a little closer to home - in the sexual lives of men and women across... Buy or find out more→
The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
$29.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Mixing a highly personal memoir, investigative journalism and the research from neuroscience and experimental psychology, the author reveals how the stories we tell ourselves about the world invisibly shape our beliefs, and how... Buy or find out more→
Love with a Chance of Drowning: A Memoir
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Love can make a person do crazy things . . . A city girl with a morbid fear of deep water, Torre DeRoche is not someone you would ordinarily find adrift in the middle of the stormy Pacific aboard a leaky sailboat – total... Buy or find out more→
Glorious Days Australia 1913
$44.95 – Paperback
The year 1913 was a fascinating and important time for Australians, although the events of the following year have tended to cast a retrospective shadow over it. In places as far apart as Antarctica, Papua and Great Britain,... Buy or find out more→
High Sobriety: My Year without Booze
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Read our Q&A with Jill Stark here. ‘I’m the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write... Buy or find out more→
Changeology: How to Enable Groups, Communities, and Societies to Do Things They've Never Done Before
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
The pressing issues of today clamour for solutions. Yet, to a surprising degree, past and present efforts to effect social change have been based on little more than hunches. Changeology dispels many of the myths that... Buy or find out more→
Future Proofing Australia: The Right Answers for Our Future
$29.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Future-proofing Australia is a selection of essays by Australia's great thinkers and doers boldly confronting the future and mapping out a path for our country. Buy or find out more→
Toxic Oil: Why Vegetable Oil Will Kill You and How to Save Yourself
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Everything you believe about fat is wrong. Polyunsaturated oil – everyone knows it's good for you, right? Wrong! And we all know artery-clogging, cholesterol-forming saturated fat is bad for you, don't we? Wrong again!... Buy or find out more→
Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home
$24.95 – Paperback / Affirm Press
Joyful Strains collects twenty-seven memoirs from writers describing their expatriation to Australia. These are stories about what they found, who they became and what they now think of Australia – stories that provide... Buy or find out more→
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
A species-by-species look at the incredible interactions that take place between scientists and their animal subjects, and the discoveries that have emerged about how and what animals think. Buy or find out more→
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Perusading, Convincing and Influencing Others
$32.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
In this provocative book, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Daniel H. Pink offers a fresh look at the art and science of persuasion. Physicians sell patients on a remedy. Lawyers sell juries on... Buy or find out more→
Madness: A Memoir
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Madness is a real world for the many thousands of people who are right now living within it. It never apologises. Sometimes it is a shadow, ever present, without regard for the sun. Sometimes it is a well of dark water with no... Buy or find out more→
A Lasting Record
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
A Lasting Record tells the unique true story of two separate but interconnected lives: New Yorker William Kapell, America′s greatest home-grown concert pianist, and Roy Preston, Melbourne-based Myer cosmetics salesman and... Buy or find out more→
Educating Gen Wi-Fi: How to Make Schools Relevant for 21st-century Learners
$24.99 – Paperback / ABC Books
"I am amazed at how much the world has changed today from when I was a student. The problem is that schools have not changed as rapidly as the world we live in..." Just a generation ago, school was a simple affair:... Buy or find out more→
Girl Stuff: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years
$39.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
With more than 600 pages and heaps of cartoons, Girl Stuff haseverything girls need to know about: friends, body changes, shopping, clothes, make-up, pimples (arrghh), sizes, hair, earning money, guys, embarrassment, what to... Buy or find out more→
Sinning Across Spain: A Walker's Journey from Granada to Galicia
$29.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
I WILL WALK OFF YOUR SINS. Pilgrim seeks sinners for mutually beneficial arrangement. Seven Deadlies a specialty. With these words Ailsa Piper’s journey begins. Less than a month later she finds herself hiking... Buy or find out more→
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted
$29.99 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
An intimate portrait of the brilliant and tragic literary enigma before her marriage to Ted Hughes, based on her early poems, letters and diaries Buy or find out more→
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
$45.00 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers
The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, daredevil - and Fascist. Buy or find out more→
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star
$35.00 – Hardback / Little, Brown Book Group
A frank and funny pop culture memoir in the vein of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman, this is "how to be a woman artist" This is the story of Tracey Thorn, one half of the internationally successful group... Buy or find out more→
By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life
$29.99 – Hardback / Text Publishing Co
What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer? Ramona’s Koval’s By the Book is about reading and living, and about the authors that have written themselves into her life:... Buy or find out more→
After Words: The Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches
$74.95 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
A unique volume of speeches and occasional pieces written entirely by former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. Buy or find out more→
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance
$23.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
In this enchanting tour of French literaturea from Abelard and Heloise in the 12th century to Marguerite Duras in the 20th and Philippe Sollers in the 21sta Yalom attempts to unravel the mystery of how the French manage their... Buy or find out more→
Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and One Short Story)
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different... Buy or find out more→
Both Flesh and Not
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected non-fiction, by the legendary David Foster Wallace Buy or find out more→
Tales from the Political Trenches
$29.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
At the 2007 federal election former journalist Maxine McKew won a spectacular victory against John Howard and wrote herself into Australian political history as only the second candidate to have ever defeated a sitting prime... Buy or find out more→
People on Country: Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures
$39.95 – Paperback / Federation Press
Over the past four decades Aboriginal people living in remote and regional Australia have been empowered by land rights and native title laws to claim back large tracts of their ancestral lands. Today the Indigenous... Buy or find out more→
Canberra
$29.99 – Hardback / UNSW Press
An implicit sense of public service and ‘otherness’ has now come to permeate Canberra’s identity to a point that there is a great smugness, arrogance even, that the rest of Australia can hate us – but they’ll never know how... Buy or find out more→
The Best Australian Essays 2012
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
‘When looking for wisdom, it’s a good idea to range widely’—RAMONA KOVAL The Best Australian Essays 2012 presents the country’s most eloquent voices at the peak of their powers. Helen Garner, Anna Krien and Romy Ash... Buy or find out more→
The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters
$34.99 – Hardback / Pan Macmillan
Writing by hand is something that has shaped and revealed our humanity for thousands of years. In a world where people are increasingly swapping pens, letters and love-notes for typing text messages with their thumbs, The... Buy or find out more→
Assholes: A Theory
$24.99 – Hardback / Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Philosopher Aaron James tackles the subject of assholes in a philosophical - yet also humorous, entertaining and accessible - inquiry into what makes a person an asshole. The book also explores different asshole types, the... Buy or find out more→
The Burning Library
$32.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The Burning Library explores the lives and work of Australian novelists, many of whom have sadly disappeared from the public imagination. Among the writers Williamson discusses are Dymphna Cusack, Elizabeth Harrower, David... Buy or find out more→
Don't Go Back to Where You Came from: Why Multiculturalism Works
$29.99 – Paperback / UNSW Press
Tim Soutphommasane boldly stakes a claim for the overwhelming success of multiculturalism in Australia. European governments are declaring multiculturalism a failure, with many conservatives in Australia hastening to... Buy or find out more→
Politics with Purpose: Occasional Observations on Public and Private Life
$32.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
'We cannot blame particular individuals for modern Labor's malaise, because it is part of a systemic global phenomenon. We are all under the sway of politics without purpose. And politics without purpose is pointless.' Lindsay... Buy or find out more→
Fallout from Fukushima
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
On a calm afternoon in March 2011, a force-nine earthquake jolted the Pacific Ocean seabed east of Japan. Forty minutes later, a tsunami 21 metres high crashed onto the coast of Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate prefectures. Towns... Buy or find out more→
Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business
$32.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
James Button spent a year writing speeches for Kevin Rudd. Before that, he reported on politics as a highly regarded journalist for Fairfax. But James also has politics in the blood: his father was the diminutive but... Buy or find out more→
Selected Letters of William Styron
$59.95 – Hardback / Random House USA Inc
Covering a career that spanned almost 60 years and many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this collection pulls back the curtain and provides readers with a unique view of the author's life. Buy or find out more→
Greenwash: Big Brands and Carbon Scams
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
In recent years, McDonald's has painted its famous golden arches green, while Richard Branson has funnelled money into renewable energy. But are these newly 'climate-friendly' companies and brands really as green as they claim... Buy or find out more→
The Words That Made Australia: How a Nation Came to Know Itself
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements – from... Buy or find out more→
Superman is an Arab: On God, Marriage, Macho Men and Other Disastrous Inventions
$19.95 – Paperback / The Westbourne Press
Mixing personal experiences with more global facts and considerations, Joumana Haddad, author of 'I Killed Scheherazade' reflects, in what could be considered the sequel of her exploration of Arab womanhood, upon the vital need... Buy or find out more→
Honestly: Notes on Life
$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Gemmell certainly knows how to be controversial' - DAILY TELEGRAPH Celebrating a year of thought - provoking and fascinating columns in THE AUSTRALIAN WEEKEND MAGAZINE, HONESTLY is a collection of writing on a diverse range of... Buy or find out more→
Journalism at the Crossroads: Crisis and Opportunity for the Press
$24.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Considers role of journalist in new media landscape, why we still need quality news reporting, how new technologies enhance traditional reporting, how journalists &citizens can work together to break stories. Simons coordinator of... Buy or find out more→
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
$29.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 "New York Times" bestseller "The Happiness Project, " Rubin embarks on a new project: to make home a happier place. Buy or find out more→
After the Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis
$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
When it comes to the natural world, Australia is home to a disproportionately large share of the world’s riches. That means we Australians are caretakers of a unique natural heritage in a land which tolerates few mistakes. So... Buy or find out more→
The Price of Politics
$35.00 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster
Like his twelve #1 national bestsellers from All the President's Men to Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward's new book takes us inside the rooms where the nation's business is negotiated at the highest levels. Buy or find out more→
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia
$45.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
This revised edition of the classic field guide to Australian birds represents the most up to date, comprehensive and illustrated handbook for birdlovers in Australia. Buy or find out more→
The Chamberlain Case: The Legal Saga That Transfixed the Nation
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
A baby disappears from a tent near Uluru in the sandy desert of central Australia. The Aboriginal trackers say she has been taken by a dingo. But amidst a melange of sinister rumours, suspicion falls on the parents, Lindy and... Buy or find out more→
The Little Veggie Patch Co's Guide to Backyard Farming
$45.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Fabian Capomolla and Mat Pember are back with 'The Little Veggie Patch Co's Guide to Backyard Farming'. Buy or find out more→
Hell's Battlefield: The Australians in New Guinea in World War II
$49.99 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
The first single volume history to cover all the battles fought by the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea. Hell's Battlefield is the first book that tells the whole story of the Australians against... Buy or find out more→
A Walk Through the Southern Sky: A Guide to Stars, Constellations and Their Legends
$39.95 – Paperback / Cambridge University Press
A Walk through the Southern Sky is a beautifully illustrated guide to the stars and constellations of the southern hemisphere. Buy or find out more→
The Gardenist: A New Way to Create Inspiring Garden Spaces
$44.99 – Hardback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Michael McCoy is The Gardenist: garden designer, author, broadcaster, speaker and obsessive home gardener. In this bold new look at gardens - both at the design and the plantmanship - he shares the secret to understanding what... Buy or find out more→
The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
China is rising – how should America respond? That could be the crucial question of the 21st century, according to Hugh White. It is also a crucial question for Australia, affecting our future economy and security. In... Buy or find out more→
Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What it Means for Us
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Our planet's resources are running out. The media bombards us with constant warnings of impending shortages of fossil fuels, minerals, arable land, and water and the political Armageddon that will result as insatiable global... Buy or find out more→
The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth
$29.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
Across the world there is a land grab. Entire countries are being snatched from under the feet of native residents: Saudia Arabia now owns most of Ethiopia; the Rev Moon owns a slice of South America the size of... Buy or find out more→
Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan
$30.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan.... Buy or find out more→
Subliminal: The Revolution of the New Unconscious and What it Teaches Us About Ourselves
$27.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Subliminal is all about how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world far more than we realize, from our relationships with family, friends and business associates to the way we handle money and even our... Buy or find out more→
How Much is Enough?: The Love of Money, and the Case for the Good Life
$35.00 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
In recent years, economic growth has been regarded as a self-evident good, with political debate focussed on the best means to achieve it. But there are now signs that this shared assumption is weakening. Anger at... Buy or find out more→
American Stories: Tales of Hope and Anger
$29.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
An engrossing account of America on a knife's edge by one of Australia's most well known journalists. In July 2009, Michael Brissenden, political editor for The 7.30 Report, moved to Washington to take up a new role as... Buy or find out more→
Pieces Of Mind 21 Short Walks Around The Human Brain
$19.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
The human mind is arguably the most complex organ in the universe. Modern computers might be faster, and whales might have larger brains, but neither can match the sheer intellect or capacity for creativity that we humans enjoy. Buy or find out more→
All of it: A Memoir of Love, Fear and Art
$29.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Bestselling author Bev Aisbett′s no-nonsense text, combined with her insightful cartoon images, have reassured countless people seeking help for anxiety. Now, she reveals the deep spirit that lies behind these deceptively... Buy or find out more→
The Office: A Hardworking History
$45.00 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
A lively social and cultural history of the office, blending its birth, growth and emergence as a means of organising a company, an institution or a bureaucracy to the place in which most of us spend more time than any... Buy or find out more→
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: and Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Young began life severely learning disabled, and built herself a better brain and a brain training program that has helped thousands of others do the same. In the past five years, the idea that self-improvement can happen in the... Buy or find out more→
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Internet star Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Here she takes listeners on a hilarious journey through her life, recalling her redneck upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and... Buy or find out more→
Imagine: The Science of Creativity
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
"New York Times" best-selling author Jonah Lehrer shows us how we can all learn to be more creative. Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible... Buy or find out more→
When I Was a Child I Read Books
$39.99 – Hardback / Little, Brown Book Group
Since the 1981 publication of Marilynne Robinson?s novel Housekeeping a stunning debut that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize she has built a reputation not only as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also as a... Buy or find out more→
Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
$34.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Neil Young is an iconic figure in the history of rock and pop culture (inducted not once but twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). This title offers an overview of his personal life and musical career, spanning his time in... Buy or find out more→
Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Why are Australians so disenchanted and angry when it comes to politics? Given how well the country is going, by all rights we should be delighted with our political leadership. And yet we’re not. In Quarterly Essay 46,... Buy or find out more→
Reframe How To Solve The Worlds Trickiest Problems
$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
In the tradition of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point, Reframe brings a fresh perspective to our toughest political problems. This is a book by a young Australian thinker that turns conventional thinking on its head. Buy or find out more→
Entertain Us The Rise And Fall Of Alternative Rock In The Nineties
$32.99 – Paperback / ABC Books
In 1990 alternative music was where it belonged - underground. It left the business of rock stardom to rock stars. But by 1992 alternative rock had spawned a revolution in music and style that transformed youth culture and... Buy or find out more→
Toyo: A Memoir
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Toyo learned to ask nothing, to wait and count the days. But they passed and passed and still the doorway remained empty of his deep voice, calling out her name. Blending the intimacy of memoir with an artist's... Buy or find out more→
Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott
$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Read our Q&A with David Marr about Political Animal here. Tony Abbott is the... Buy or find out more→
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
A gripping, triumphant memoir about the power of addiction and its effect on the brain Marc Lewis knows addiction: that desperate ambition to get high accompanied him around the world for many years. In the 1960s, Lewis... Buy or find out more→
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
This astonishing, brilliantly written book brings us to places we could otherwise never go as it unfolds a riveting contemporary drama: a group of remarkable people striving to better their lives, in an age of bewildering global... Buy or find out more→
The Stories That Changed Australia: 50 Years of Four Corners
$32.99 – Paperback / ABC Books
In the fifty years it′s been on air, Four Corners has broken more stories, triggered more headlines, generated more controversy and aired more high quality investigative journalist than any other program in Australia. In... Buy or find out more→
There Stands My House
$24.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
The first English-language translation of the memoirs of Hans Keilson, one of Europe’s most masterful and remarkable writers In this unique work, which was composed in the 1990s and only recently rediscovered, Keilson... Buy or find out more→
When Gods Collide: An Unbeliever's Pilgrimage Along India's Coromandel Coast
$24.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
‘For ten years I’d been picturing the mob marching across the field to Manoharpur with flaming torches, then standing, shouting, around the jeep, rocking it, and then as I focused on the back window and saw three indistinct... Buy or find out more→
The Double Life of Herman Rockefeller
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
In January 2010 a law-abiding, church-going father of two from Melbourne's leafy eastern suburbs didn't come home after a business trip and his burnt remains were found in a northern suburb – the wrong side of town – a week... Buy or find out more→
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia
$39.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Buy or find out more→
Joseph Anton
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have... Buy or find out more→
A Premier's State
$34.99 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
By the time he was forty-eight, Steve Bracks had achieved the goal he'd set himself nine years earlier. He was Premier of Victoria. In A Premier's State he reveals for the first time the background to his... Buy or find out more→
Try Whistling This: Writings About Music
$32.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
In Try Whistling This , join a perceptive critic on a pleasurable journey through music and musicians, ideas and history. Andrew Ford traces the concept of dirty dancing back to 1610, marvels at the weirdness of Percy Grainger and... Buy or find out more→
James Halliday: A Life in Wine
$45.00 – Hardback / Hardie Grant Books
A delightful collection of James Halliday's reminiscences of his remarkable wine career, from the master himself. In a much-lauded career in wine spanning over forty years and accumulating innumerable awards, James Halliday has... Buy or find out more→
The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs
$39.95 – Hardback / Yale University Press
After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures, and it is the unprecedented human brain that makes... Buy or find out more→
The Rolling Stones: 50
$39.95 – Hardback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
Celebrates the 50th anniversary of the greatest rock and roll band of all time - Rolling Stones. This title documents all of the albums, gigs and dramas in the bands unique, international history. It also features the work of... Buy or find out more→
The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
$62.00 – Hardback / Guilford Publications
Presenting pioneering research on early relationships and the developing brain, this bestselling book put the field of interpersonal neurobiology on the map for many tens of thousands of clinicians, researchers, and students.... Buy or find out more→
Get Well Soon!: My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse
$24.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
My quest for a career started early, when I was four years old and gave myself a haircut to see if I liked that sort of thing. I liked it plenty, but my mother did not. Buy or find out more→
The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London
$40.00 – Hardback / Orion Publishing Co
A double biographical study of Nancy Mitford and her affair with Free French commander Gaston Palewski Buy or find out more→
Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad and Life Was a Catch-22
$24.95 – Paperback / Vintage
A memoir of the author, from her colourful family members and her parents' passionate and tumultuous marriage, to her father's celebrity friends and the family's eccentric neighbours (Mel Brooks was a close confidante, Sidney... Buy or find out more→