What We Are Reading
The Revenge Of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
For millennia, human kind has exploited the Earth. Now, as the world warms and weather patterns dramatically change, the Earth is beginning to fight back. Lovelock, one of the giants of environmental thinking, argues pas... Buy or find out more →
Kingdom Come
$23.00 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial
Richard Pearson‚ unemployed advertising executive and life−long rebel‚ is driving out to Brooklands‚ a motorway town on the M25. A few weeks earlier his father was fatally wounded at the Metro−Centre‚ a vast shopping mal... Buy or find out more →
Somebody's Crying
$22.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
G'day mate!'
Tom half-recognises the voice but after a quick whirr his stagnant
brain cells are unable to place it.
'Yeah?' he says cautiously.
'It's me!' The voice is way too friendly. 'Jonno?'
Tom s whole body goes... Buy or find out more →
Leisureville: Adventures In A World Without Children
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Wildly entertaining and full of laughs, Leisureville is also an important book on a major, under-reported trend.
Leisureville is a first-hand look at the growing phenomenon of gated retirement communities where children ... Buy or find out more →
Unknown Masterpiece
$20.95 – Paperback book / New York Rev Books
Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) is generally credited as the inventor of the modern realistic novel. In more than ninety novels, he set forth French society and life as he saw it. He created a cast of over two thousand indi... Buy or find out more →
A Suitable Boy
$29.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 1994.
Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, a tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set ... Buy or find out more →