The Brain That Changes Itself
Norman Doidge

$35.00 (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 »

A Most Wanted Man
John Le Carré

$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 »

Quarterly Essay 31: Now Or Never: A Sustainable Future For Australia?
Tim Flannery

$15.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )

Professor Tim Flannery investigates the latest climate science and the challenges facing Australia and the world. He looks at what the Rudd government needs to do if the nation is to play its part in averting a global ca... More »

The Lieutenant
Kate Grenville

$45.00$35.95 (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 »

The Age Good Food Guide 2009

$29.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

With nearly 300 reviews of Melbourne restaurants and extensive coverage of destinations further afield, The Age Good Food Guide 2009 edition will point you in the right direction for every occasion.

John Lethlean and Nec... More »

Brisingr: Inheritance Book Three
Christopher Paolini

$27.95 (Trade paperback / Doubleday )

Forces collide in Book III of the phenomenally successful Inheritance Cycle. Eragon represents the greatest hope for a better Alagaësia. Can this once simple farm boy rise to become a leader who can unite the rebel force... More »

Doors Open
Ian Rankin

$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Orion )

Set in a very different Edinburgh to that inhabited by DI John Rebus, this new thriller will show a whole new side to Ian Rankin. With echoes of OCEAN'S 11 and THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, this novel centres on the glamorous... More »

Arabesques
Robert Dessaix

$49.99$39.95 (Hardcover book / Picador )

One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andr Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as ... More »

The Rip
Robert Drewe

$35.00 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )

Internationally acclaimed as a novelist and memoirist, Robert Drewe returns to the short-story territory he has made his own. Set against a backdrop - the Australian coast - as randomly and imminently violent as it is be... More »

Oink, Oink, Oink: A Savage Modern Fable
Eric Yoshiaki Dando

$29.95 (Paperback book / Hunter )

A young boy grows up in rural Japan, raised by his mother among the clamour of industrial machines at the local fish cannery. He has never met his father, an Australian genetic scientist —he pieces together his sense of ... More »