Summer Bargains
The Sum Of Our Days
$32.95$13.95 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, The House of the Spirits, was based on her Chilean childhood, and other autobiographical works inc... More »
Other Colours
$45.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
A collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, Other Colours ranges from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendshi... More »
Self Portrait: Renaissance To Contemporary
$45.00$16.95 (Paperback book / Art Gallery Of Nsw )
From Van Eyck and Carracci, Velazquez and Van Gogh to Kahlo, Bonnard, Bacon and Warhol, SELF PORTRAIT: Renaissance to Contemporary celebrates the lives of artists and their unique perspective on themselves and their work... More »
Paris To The Moon
$22.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. Charmed by the beauties of the city, Gopnik set out to experience for himself the sp... More »
Manning Clark A Life
$59.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
Charles Manning Hope Clark was born in Burwood, Sydney, on 3 March 1915, the second son of the Reverend Charles Clark. When he was six his family moved to Phillip Island, Western Port, Victoria, and then in 1924 they set... More »
A Dictionary Of Sea Quotations
$65.00$24.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
A Dictionary of Sea Quotations surveys nearly three millennia of literature, including novels, poems, songs, sacred texts and narrative prose, to show the extraordinary diversity of the human experience of the sea, the p... More »
Australian Greats
$59.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Random House )
Great Australian writers and commentators offer a range of lively responses to the question: What makes Australia great?
We all know that Australia is the greatest nation on earth, but what is it exactly that makes Austr... More »
A Figure Of Speech: A Political Memoir
$44.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Wiley )
As a young boy growing up in Brisbane to his time as a speech writer from Calwell to Carr, this book will look at those legendary people; friends and foes he has inluenced. From his campaigns working on speeches for Goug... More »
Bryson's Dictionary For Writers And Editors
$45.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Doubleday )
From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.
What is the difference between... More »
Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
$35.00$14.95 (Paperback book / Phoenix House )
Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter (for the Two Ronnies, David Frost etc). Monty Python was just around the corner.... More »
The Museum Of Dr Moses
$29.95$16.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
In The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza, a woman’s world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend's death and what her father is capable of. In the title story, The Museum of Dr Moses, an estranged... More »
Theft: A Love Story
$45.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
'I don't know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff, by which time I had not onl... More »
Moby Dick: A Pop-Up Book
$35.00$14.95 (Hardcover book / Cameron House )
“Call me Ishmael.” Three of the most famous words in all literature, they begin Herman Melville’s masterpiece, Moby-Dick. Now, the epic saga of Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest for the white whale comes vividly to life in ... More »
The Good Husband Of Zebra Drive: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Book Eight
$29.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Polygon Press )
Mma Ramotswe is experiencing staffing difficulties. First Mr. J.L.B. Mate-koni asks to be put in charge of a case involving an errant husband. But can a man investigate such matters as successfully as the number one lady... More »
The Great Modern Poets
$34.95$16.95 (Paperback book / Murdoch Books )
The Great Modern Poets is the perfect introduction to twentieth and twenty-first century poets and their best poetry. Over 100 complete and unabridged poems are accompanied by a concise text that provides insight, observ... More »
A Really Short History Of Nearly Everything
$39.95$33.95 (Hardcover book / Doubleday )
Bill's own fascination with science began with a battered old schoolbook he had when he was about ten or eleven years old in America. It had an illustration that captivated him - a cutaway diagram showing Earth's interio... More »
Taking Pictures
$32.95$16.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )
The stories in Taking Pictures are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people - and their failures to connect - the characters are captured in the grai... More »
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The Private Patient
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )
When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful... More »
A Day At El Bulli
$75.00$65.95 (Hardcover book / )
Situated on a remote beach on the northeast coast of Spain, el Bulli is famous for being the ultimate pilgrimage site for foodies, and a reservation there is nearly impossible to obtain. Each year el Bulli is open for ju... More »
Indignation
$45.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape )
It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s ... More »
In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies: No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency Book Six
$29.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Polygon Press )
Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator
of 'traditional build', is well-known to millions across the world
through the best-selling No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
series.
Those who have been follow... More »
A Most Wanted Man
$32.99$27.95 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his na... More »
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The Lieutenant
$45.00$39.95 (Hardcover book / Text Publishing )
In 1787 Lieutenant Thomas Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipa... More »
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Blue Shoes And Happiness The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Book Seven
$14.95 (Hardcover book / Polygon Press )
There is considerable excitement at the shared premises of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe’s office. Then a nurse from a local medical clini... More »
Andrew Fisher
$49.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
Prime Minister Andrew Fisher was one of Australia's great nation–builders, yet his story is largely unknown. He left school early to work in the coalmines of Scotland, educating himself at night. In 1885, at the age of 2... More »
Stephen Fry In America
$40.00$33.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
Stephen Fry has always loved America‚ in fact he came very close to being born there. Here‚ his fascination for the country and its people sees him embark on an epic journey across America‚ visiting each of its 51 States... More »
Dear Fatty: My Autobiography Of Me
$34.95$29.95 (Trade paperback / Century )
Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, wtih a career that has spanned nearly three decades, encompassing a vast and brilliant array of characters. Loved for her irreverant humour, Dawn has achie... More »
Bert And Ned: The Correspondence Of Albert Tucker And Sidney Nolan
$49.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan were friends and rivals but never antagonists for the whole of their working lives as artists. Together they participated in the struggle to establish modern art in Australia in the 1940s. ... More »
Entirely Up To You, Darling
$34.95$29.95 (Trade paperback / Hutchinson )
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH and Diana Hawkins have been friends and colleagues for nearly 50 years. Now they are teaming up to write a frank, funny and revelatory account of their unlikely partnership and his extraordinary life... More »
The Gods Of Freud: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection
$49.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
Janine Burke, award-winning author and art historian, reveals an intriguing new perspective on sigmund Freud - as an obsessive art collector; a passionate and reckless man intent on surrounding himself with beautiful obj... More »
Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography
$59.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
Stella Miles Franklin was born in the Australian bush and‚ at the age of twenty−one‚ became an international publishing sensation with My Brilliant Career. The book struck a chord with women and girls all over the countr... More »
Through The Childrens Gate: A Home In New York
$29.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
The bestselling author of Paris to the Moon delivers another charming collection of outsider-looking-in tales of one of the world’s great cities. This time, it’s New York, which he falls in love with all over again as he... More »
Things I Didn't Know
$55.00$18.95 (Hardcover book / Random Century )
There have been, in the past 20 years or so, several memoirs that have struck a crucial intellectual and emotional chord. William Styron's DARKNESS VISIBLE is one. Frank McCourt's ANGELA'S ASHES is another. In many ways,... More »
Two Lives: Gertrude And Alice
$32.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
Staff review This book is a real treat. Written by one of the world’s great writers, about two of the twentieth century’s most intriguing literary fi gures, (modernist master Gertrude Stein and ‘worker bee’ Alice B. Tokl... More »
Vanity Fair Portraits: A Century Of Iconic Images
$120.00$99.95 (Hardcover book / Hardie Grant )
Vanity Fair Portraits traces the cultural history of the 20th Century and its leading personalities in the pages of a magazine that helped usher in the modern age and which has itself become a benchmark of modern achieve... More »
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
$69.95$59.95 (Hardcover book / Quercus )
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides, a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus, the greatest classical work of history ever written.
Herodotus was a Greek historian living in Ionia du... More »
Lygon Street
$59.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )
Lygon Street is in the heart of the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Carlton. It is a street that was responsible for bringing authentic home-style cooking to Australia and introducing the first espresso machine. This abso... More »
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American Journeys
$49.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
Only in America, the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything, are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys in 2005 and 2006, acclaimed author Don Watson set out... More »
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Australia: 42 Great Landscape Experiences
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Lonely Planet )
Internationally renowned photographer Richard l'Anson turns his lens on his home country, shooting Australia's wildest and most stunning places. Australia: 42 Great Landscape Experiences is packed with reference maps and... More »
Balance And Harmony
$125.00$99.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )
Rockpool chef Neil Perry revels in his love for Asian cooking in this sumptuous book, set out in the style of a cooking school – with banquet ideas as well as individual recipes. From the easiest steamed and stir-fried d... More »
The Europe Book
$59.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Lonely Planet )
Ladies and gentlemen, you loved The Travel Book so now we give you - The Europe Book! Thrill to the highlights of this intriguing and captivating continent! Get inspired to discover parts of Europe you didn't know! Be am... More »
In The Kitchen
$69.95$59.95 (Hardcover book / Hardie Grant )
From two of Australia’s most trusted cookbook authors comes this comprehensive kitchen companion, more than 800 pages and more than 1000 recipes for the everyday. Chapters cover every meal from breakfasts to weeknight di... More »
Ripailles: Traditional French Cuisine
$79.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )
Acclaimed Parisian chef Stéphane Reynaud writes beautiful recipes that combine his passion for traditional French cooking with his enthusiasm for modern cuisine. His range extends from simple home cooking to more complex... More »
Unforgettable Walks To Take Before You Die
$49.95$19.95 (Paperback book / Bbc Books )
UNFORGETTABLE WALKS TO TAKE BEFORE I DIE is the fifth title in an exciting series of books that will help you search out essential sights and experiences around the world.Photographers and writers Steve Watkins and Clare... More »
Venezia: Food and Dreams
$59.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )
In Venezia: Food & Dreams, Tessa Kiros explores the magic and charm of the famous Italian city of Venice. She embroiders the recipes of this city of canals, bridges and carnivals with her own unique colours and threa... More »
The Book Of Animal Ignorance
$29.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
Meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants ... More »
