Summer Bargains
Saraban: A Chef's Journey Through Persia
$79.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Following on from the success of their award-winning books, Saha and Turquoise, Greg and Lucy Malouf now explore one of the world's earliest and greatest empires: Saraban is an unforgettable journey through the culinary ... Buy or find out more →
Lonely Planet's Guide To Travel Photography
$34.95$14.95 – Paperback book / Lonely Planet
In this third edition of Lonely Planet's best-selling Travel Photography, internationally renowned travel photographer Richard I'Anson shows you how to avoid common photography mistakes and to develop your compositional ... Buy or find out more →
Art Of Australia: Volume One
$125.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
"I have on my desk the printer's proof of Art of Australia. It is quite simply the most beautiful book I've ever been involved with. The text is marvellous - fascinating, compelling and definitive from Australia's pre-em... Buy or find out more →
Sunday's Kitchen
$49.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press
Sunday's Kitchen explores life behind-the-scenes at Heide, the celebrated haven for progressive modernist artists and writers. Heide was the home and personal Eden of John and Sunday Reed, two of Australia's most signifi... Buy or find out more →
Spice Notes And Recipes
$59.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
In this new, stunningly packaged expanded edition, celebrated spice merchant Ian Hemphill explores new frontiers of the spice world. With over 140 delectable new recipes from Ian's daughter, Kate, herb and spice mixes fo... Buy or find out more →
Waddle!
$19.95$10.00 – Hardcover book / Workman
It's Waddle! And it's in color. And boy, is it irresistible. In the same way that kids can't read Gallop! without wanting to gallop around the room, Waddle!, an animals-in-motion Scanimation book, will inspire prancing, ... Buy or find out more →
The Flower Hunter: The Remarkable Life Of Ellis Rowan
$34.95$16.95 – Paperback book / National Lib Of Aust
Ellis Rowan was one of Australias most accomplished artists and an incredibleif somewhat unexpectedadventurer. During World War I Ellis ventured alone into the tropical jungles of New Guinea in search of all 72 known spe... Buy or find out more →
A Tale Of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Two Novels)
$24.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Two of the most beloved novels in all of English literature-together in one extraordinary volume.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally re... Buy or find out more →
The Artist's Lunch
$69.95$0.00 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Dine with photographer Sarah Rhodes and writer Alice McCormick as they journey into the homes of Australia’s most pre-eminent artists and unearth captivating stories of their lives and work. Over lunch, and in their own ... Buy or find out more →
The World of the Book
$39.99$14.95 – Paperback book / Miegunyah Press
French poet Stephane Mallarme understood that books hold the world's stories. From the earliest known myths and legends to postmodern fictions, books are mirrors of real worlds, windows into imagined worlds and keepers o... Buy or find out more →
Food From Many Greek Kitchens
$69.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
No one captures the spirit and soul of a place quite like Tessa Kiros. Her bestselling cookbooks Twelve, Falling Cloudberries, Apples for Jam, Piri Piri Starfish and Venezia have taken lovers of food and armchair travell... Buy or find out more →
The Pale King
$39.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
David Foster Wallace's last and most ambitious undertaking
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly-arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses h... Buy or find out more →
Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary (Deluxe 5th Edition)
$69.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
Now available in a special deluxe format with coloured endpapers, gilt edges and other features, the Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary provides an authoritative description of Australian and international English unri... Buy or find out more →
The Silver Spoon Book Of Pasta
$49.95$23.95 – Hardcover book /
Following on from the international best-seller The Silver Spoon - the Italian cooking bible- the Silver Spoon Book of Pasta presents a collection of 350 definitive pasta recipes for all lovers of the iconic Italian dish... Buy or find out more →
Potty! Clarissa's One Pot Cookbook
$35.00$9.95 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
Perfect for anyone who loves good food but hates washing up, Potty contains 100 of Clarissa's favourite recipes which can all be cooked in one dish in the oven or on the hob. The book is a mouth-watering collection of ca... Buy or find out more →
Death Comes To Pemberley
$29.95$26.95 – Paperback book / Faber
The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the Pemberley nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live within seven... Buy or find out more →
Big Elephants Are Useful
$29.95$9.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
Do you know why Big Elephants Are Useful To Indians For Unloading Logs? Because it’s a BEAUTIFUL way to get a tricky spelling right. Have you ever lost an arguement? Or was it an argument? If you can just remember “I los... Buy or find out more →
The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy
$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Vintage
Enter the world of Gormenghast. The vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this Gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, cloisters and corridors... Buy or find out more →
Wine and Food
$55.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Univ West Aust Pr
Kate Lamonts stunning new cookbook explores the fine art of wine and food matching. Drawing upon her experience as both a winemaker and chef Kate takes readers through the basics. Unlike any other book on the market, cha... Buy or find out more →
The Superior Person's Field Guide To Deceitful Deceptive And Downright Dangerous Language
$29.95$9.95 – Hardcover book /
In his Superior Person's Book of Words and its two sequels, the incorrigible Peter Bowler did his best to spread confusion throughout the English-speaking world by encouraging his trusting readers to use obscure, sometim... Buy or find out more →
Cadel Evans: The Long Road to Paris
$39.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
My mind took control of my body. I had nothing left in the legs but as a cyclist, you just keep going until the finish. I kept reminding myself that I had to get to the finish...
Filled with sensational photographs and r... Buy or find out more →
On Canaan's Side
$29.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Faber & Faber
From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel, spanning one woman Lilly Bere's lifetime, lived between Ireland and America. On Cannaan's side has already made the 2... Buy or find out more →
Autumn Laing
$40.00$34.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Read our Q&A with Alex Miller on Autumn Laing
Autumn Laing has long outlived the legendary circle of artists she cultivated in the 1930s. Now 'old and skeleton gaunt', she reflects on her tumultuous relationship wit... Buy or find out more →
Animal People
$32.95$26.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Read our Q&A with Charlotte Wood about Animal People.
The hilarious, tender and heartbreaking story of a watershed day in the life of Stephen - aimless, unhappy and unfulfilled, this stiflingly hot December day is t... Buy or find out more →
Cold Light
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry and her now husband Ambrose Westwood are now back from... Buy or find out more →
The Night Circus
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
In 1886 a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, the Cirque des Rêves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves ... Buy or find out more →
The Marriage Plot
$29.95$26.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn′t get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot. Madeleine was the girl who dr... Buy or find out more →
The Map And The Territory
$32.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
If Jed Martin, the main character of this novel, was to tell you its story, he would perhaps begin by talking about a boiler breaking down, one 15th December. Or about his father, a well-known and committed architect, wi... Buy or find out more →
1Q84
$39.95$32.95 – Hardcover book / Harvill
The Australian edition, exceeding 900 pages, comprises all three volumes of the book (which were published in Japan and the UK as separate books).
Read an early review of 1Q84 by friend of Readings and Melbournian Louis ... Buy or find out more →
Foal's Bread
$32.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Read our Q&A with Gillian Mears about Foal's Bread.
The sound of horses' hooves turns hollow on the farms west of Wirri. If a man can still ride, if he hasn't totally lost the use of his legs, if he hasn't died to t... Buy or find out more →
11.22.63
$32.99$29.95 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
A riveting, high-stakes political story like UNDER THE DOME, a love story like BAG OF BONES, a 1950s community like IT, Stephen King's incredibly ambitious, heartstoppingly dramatic time travel novel, 11/22/63 is a WHAT ... Buy or find out more →
The Seamstress
$32.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Picador
The runaway bestseller that has taken the world by storm
1935: As turmoil brews in Europe, Sira Quiroga's carefully mapped-out life is thrown into chaos, first by love, then betrayal. Abandoned and alone, all she has are... Buy or find out more →
The Sense Of An Ending
$29.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumo... Buy or find out more →
City Of Fortune: How Venice Ruled The Seas
$39.99$34.95 – Hardcover book / Faber & Faber
A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five-hundred-year voyage that encompassed crusade a... Buy or find out more →
Reamde
$35.00$29.95 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
An epic thriller from the unique imagination of one of today's most inventive writers: a wealthy tech entrepreneur is caught in the crossfire of his own online fantasy war game, as Chinese hackers unleash a contagious vi... Buy or find out more →
The Prague Cemetery
$32.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
An inspired twisting of history and fiction by the critically celebrated, best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum.
Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the gh... Buy or find out more →
Nightwoods
$32.95$27.95 – Paperback book / Hachette
The new novel by the bestselling author of the classic Cold Mountain is a beautifully written, atmospheric novel of love and suspense.
Luce is a solitary young woman, caretaker of an old lodge on the edge of a lake in th... Buy or find out more →
The Street Sweeper
$32.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Read our Q&A with Elliot Perlman on The Street Sweeper.
How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.
From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanit... Buy or find out more →
The Impossible Dead
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Orion
Malcolm Fox and his team from Internal Affairs have been sent to Fife to investigate whether fellow cops covered up for a corrupt colleague, Detective Paul Carter. But what should be a simple job is soon complicated by i... Buy or find out more →
The House Of Silk: The New Sherlock Holmes Novel
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Orion
The first official new Sherlock Holmes mystery, written by global bestseller Anthony Horowitz.
Bestselling novelist and Holmes expert Anthony Horowitz will bring the great man to life again for a new generation of reader... Buy or find out more →
Australian Poetry Since 1788
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Nsw University Pr
A good poem is one that the world can’t forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia’s foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poe... Buy or find out more →
The Hare With Amber Eyes (Illustrated Edition)
$45.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
This is the definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller with gorgeous new photography of the celebrated netsuke collection, and sumptuous full-colour images hand-picked by Edmund de Waal from his famil... Buy or find out more →
Absolutely
$45.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Hachette
The absolutely fabulous Joanna Lumley opens her private albums for this illustrated memoir.
Joanna Lumley is one of Britain's undisputed national treasures, an English actress, voiceover artist and author, best known for... Buy or find out more →
The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The 1970s
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Random House
No artist offered a more incisive and accurate portrait of the troubled landscape of the 1970s than David Bowie. Through his multi-faceted and inventive work, he encapsulated many of the social, political and cultural th... Buy or find out more →
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
$45.00$34.95 – Hardcover book / Hachette
An extraordinary book which gives a unique insight into the life and thinking of the man who has single-handedly transformed the world.
Written from hours of interviews with Steve Jobs himself, family, friends, colleague... Buy or find out more →
Death In The City Of Light
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Little Brown
DEATH IN THE CITY OF LIGHT is the true story of the hunt for Marcel Petiot, a respectable physician by day, who turned out to be a brutal serial killer by night in Nazi-occupied Paris. Petiot was charged with 27 grisly m... Buy or find out more →
Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel Nazi Agent
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Chatto & Windus
Coco Chanel, high priestess of couture, created the look of the chic modern woman: her simple and elegant designs freed women from their corsets and inspired them to crop their hair. By the 1920s, Chanel employed more th... Buy or find out more →
Grand Pursuit: A Story Of Economic Genius
$59.99$49.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Sylvia Nasar, the author of the phenomenal bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through the epic story of the making of modern economics, and how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing it... Buy or find out more →
Boyer Lectures 2011: The Idea Of Home
$24.99$19.95 – Paperback book / Abc Books
For the Boyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of The Idea of Home. Drawing on her personal experience from being an adolescent pen pal to being a foreign correspondent ... Buy or find out more →
70 80 90: Iconic Australian Houses
$79.95$69.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
In this follow-up to the design classic 50/60/70 Iconic Australian Houses, Karen McCartney, founding editor of interiors magazine Inside Out has compiled a selection of significant examples of Australian houses of the 19... Buy or find out more →
Indochine
$69.95$59.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
The French colonisation of Vietnam, which lasted for nearly one hundred years, had a profound influence on Vietnamese lifestyle, architecture and cuisine. Chef and author Luke Nguyen revisits his beloved Vietnam to delve... Buy or find out more →
Transit Of Venus: 1631 To The Present
$49.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
The transit of Venus across the sun in June 2012 will be the last chance in our lifetime to see this rare planetary alignment that has been so important in history. Rich in historical detail and cutting edge science, alo... Buy or find out more →
Italian Country Cooking: The Secrets Of Cucina Povera
$49.95$39.95 – Trade paperback / Park Street Press
Cucina povera - there's no adequate translation, though "humble food" has something of it - is about the real food of Italy. The cooking techniques are simple, the ingredients seasonal and at their best. Cucina povera, a... Buy or find out more →
The Bedside Book Of Geometry
$24.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
The Bedside Book of Geometry is a fascinating, interactive guide to the history and uses of geometry. It contains clear and concise explanations of different geometric concepts, as well as profiles of key thinkers and th... Buy or find out more →
Bedside Book Of Chemistry
$14.95 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
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The Bedside Book Of Physics
$24.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
The Bedside Book of Physics is an entertaining and informative introduction to the world of physics, written with the curious beginner in mind. Covering history of physics from the early Greek thinkers to the modern inte... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Asian Cookbook
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Spices, imaginatively used, are the outstanding feature of Indian and Pakistani cookery-subtle or pungent, hot or mild, there is something to suit every palate.
This is a completely revised and updated edition of Charmai... Buy or find out more →
Cubism And Australian Art
$54.99$16.95 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press
Cubism was a movement that fundamentally changed the course of 20th-century art. Cubism and Australian Art shows the impact of this revolutionary and transformative movement on Australian painting from the early 20th cen... Buy or find out more →
The Louvre: All The Paintings
$89.99$76.95 – Hardcover book / Black Dog & Levanthal
An historic publishing event! Endorsed by the Louvre and for the very first time ever, every painting from the world's most popular and renowned museum is available in one stunning book. All 2,954 paintings on display in... Buy or find out more →
Christmas Wombat
$24.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Christmas comes but once a year, and it′s just as well for Santa′s reindeer, who have to fight with Mothball for the carrots left out for them by the local children. And when Mothball takes an unexpected sleigh ride, it′... Buy or find out more →
Great Australian Historic Hotels
$32.99$13.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Barry Stone's fascinating insight into Australia's most noteworthy hotels takes us inside the buildings which have hosted and witnessed the development of our Great Southern Land.
On Christmas Eve in 1882 an impromptu ga... Buy or find out more →
The 100 Best Australian Albums Of All Time
$59.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Australian music has a proud, colourful and successful history. In 2008, Australian rock & roll turned 50. This book names the best Australian albums of the last 50 years. It places each album in order (from 1 - 100)... Buy or find out more →
Bali: The Food Of My Island Home
$59.95$49.95 – Paperback book / Plum
Bali is one of our most popular travel destination with its warm and welcoming people, a culture rich in tradition and, of course, let’s not forget the mouth-watering food…
26 years ago, a young woman from Melbourne ... Buy or find out more →
Decade
$59.95$19.95 – Hardcover book /
A successor to Phaidon''s award-winning Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Suffering, Regression and Hope, Decade provides a comprehensive visual overview of the last 10 years in world history through 500 enga... Buy or find out more →
Never A Dull Moment: Parlour Games For Young And Old
$39.95$14.95 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
Packed with more than 200 ingenious games and entertainments, Never a Dull Moment will take you back to a time before computers and television, when families devised innovative ways to entertain each other. All you need ... Buy or find out more →
Great Journeys
$49.95$44.95 – Hardcover book / Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet's selection of the world's most spectacular journeys, including popular rail and road journeys such as the original Tour de France route, Argentina's Patagonian Highway, The Orient Express, The Silk Road an... Buy or find out more →
The Little Veggie Patch Co: How to Grow Food in Small Spaces
$45.00 – Paperback book / Plum
Fabian Capomolla and Mat Pember run a successful business installing edible gardens: in polystyrene boxes on balconies, in crates you can put anywhere in your backyard, or by creating no-dig, raised garden beds. After ye... Buy or find out more →
MoVida Cocina
$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
We’re offering foodies a chance to win a masterclass for two with Frank Camorra at MoVida Aqui in Melbourne. Simply purchase MoVida Cocina online, or grab a copy of the book in-store and fill out an entry form to be i... Buy or find out more →
Gingerboy
$69.99$59.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Iconic Melbourne restaurant gingerboy is renowned for its funky decor, Asian-inspired dishes and hip laneway location. Serving creative street food, based around plates for sharing, chefs Teage Ezard and Chris Donnellan ... Buy or find out more →
Shoes For The Moscow Circus
$59.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
Shoes for the Moscow Circus is an atmospheric, lyrical look behind the scenes of a number of Australian trades and industries, many of which are fast disappearing in the modern world. Arts writer Leta Keens, with photogr... Buy or find out more →
After Words: Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches
$59.99$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
A unique volume of speeches and occasional pieces written entirely by former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Books of speeches are rarely published as a compendium of work by one person. After Words is unique in Australian ... Buy or find out more →
Planet Word
$45.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin Group Uk
According to the Snohomish tribe of North America, we speak different languages today because of a row about a duck. There are more than 6,000 languages spoken in the world, some by only a handful, but by the end of the ... Buy or find out more →
Rockpool Bar And Grill
$79.95$59.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
When Neil Perry set out to open a steakhouse, it wasn’t going to be just any steakhouse. It had to showcase not only Australia’s best beef but also the best seafood, the best of everything. In his latest book, Neil share... Buy or find out more →
The Bedside Book Of Algebra
$24.95$14.95 – Hardcover book /
The Bedside Book of Algebra is a collection of problems, some with a very practical application, others designed as purely theoretical puzzles, that will offer something of interest to everyone. Each section is written i... Buy or find out more →
Home Made
$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Winner of the Dutch Cookbook of the Year award in 2010, Home Made is a unique cookbook, with over 200 recipes and ideas for home made food.
Author Yvette van Boven uses clear step-by-step instructions to show the reader ... Buy or find out more →
365 Good Reasons To Sit Down To Eat
$79.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
From Stéphane Reynaud, the best-selling French author of Ripailles and Rotis, comes his quirky culinary almanac 365 Good Reasons to Sit Down to Eat. There's a recipe for every day of the year, including breakfasts, one-p... Buy or find out more →
Zumbo
$49.99$39.95 – Other book format / Murdoch Books
Join Adriano Zumbo on a whirlwind tour through his whimsical world of sweet treats. Learn how to create his Willy Wonka-style inventions, from melt-in-the-mouth macarons with bold flavour combinations to sublime chocolat... Buy or find out more →