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Joan Kavanagh,Dianne Snowden
While this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it focuses on two women in particular: Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol for life for…
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Daphne Merkin
Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life…
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The best of short literary memoirs, essays and reflections, many of which were written expressly for this collection.
Susan Wise Bauer
The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.
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The rhythm, ritual and pleasure of knitting are celebrated in this new collection for lovers of both knitting and literature.
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Brian Clegg
A mind-bending quiz book from popular science master John Gribbin.
Louisa May Alcott
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Louisa May Alcott illuminates the world of Little Women and its author.
Jeff Maynard,Jeff Maynard
The previously untold story of an extraordinary man and a great war photographer.
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Christopher Lawrence
The history of classical music is littered with murder, sado- masochism, adultery, bigamy, fraud, riches, poverty, nervous breakdowns, bizarre habits, gluttony and terrible terrible toilet humour. This book takes you…
Marie Kondo
Helps you transform your home into a permanently clear and clutter-free space. This book assists you in tidying your rooms once and for all.
Robert Schnakenberg
Hes the sort of actor who can do Hamlet and Charlie’s Angels in the same year. He shuns managers and agents and once agreed to voice the part of Garfield…
A collection of stories, essays and poems written by a diverse group of refugee and migrant writers, mostly from Africa and Asia. First hand experiences of war and dislocation and…
Brian McFarlane
This book examines twenty major British films from a seventy-year time span, offering a lively account of what has made them valuable and provocative over many viewings. – .
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Meghan Daum
An incisive collection that marked the start of a new millennium and became a cult classic.
Don Watson
Dr Don Watson - with his trademark wit and wisdom - says enough already! The English language is complex and evolving, and can win minds, hearts and nations. Why don’t…
Roger Luckhurst
The zombie has shuffled with dead-eyed, remorseless menace from its beginnings in folklore and primitive superstition to become the dominant image of the undead. Roger Luckhurst sifts material from anthropology…
Megan Erickson
How neoliberal education reforms are segregating children and perpetuating inequalities as never before
Olivier Le Carrer
Oliver Le Carrer brings us a fascinating history and armchair journey to the world’s most dangerous and frightful places, complete with vintage maps and period illustrations in a handsome volume.
Eric Jarosinski
Nein. A Manifesto. is an irreverent philosophical investigation into the everyday that sounds the call to rediscover its strangeness. Inspired by the philosophical aphorisms of Nietzsche, Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin…
Offers a collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters. This book includes letters from: Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen…
TGH Strehlow
Journey to Horseshoe Bend was first published in 1969 and has been out of print for almost forty years. An Australian literary classic, it was written by TGH (Ted) Strehlow…
David Hill
Australia and the British monarchy have always made for an odd couple: the young, rebellious, egalitarian nation wed to an ancient symbol of power and social inequality. Even today, an…
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter’s hotly anticipated book on work-life balance and gender equality
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Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus delves into three distinct episodes in the history of American commonplace song and shows how each one manages to convey the uncanny sense that it was written by…
Central Land Council
Nyinanyi ngurangka - being on country - is not a ‘lifestyle choice’ but a hard-won right, a spiritual and cultural duty, a constant battle, a source of happiness and opportunity…
A Hunter,D Filipovic,H Crawford
ALL YOUR FRIENDS LIKE THIS is a topical, punchy and provacative look at how social networks are taking over the news. How do you get your news? Chances are not…
Clare Land
An essential work to be read by all non-Indigenous scholars and activists seeking solidarity with Indigenous struggles across the world
Claudia Rankine
Examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice. This book includes essays, images and poetry together to form a testament…
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Jon Morris
A fun, funny, and affectionate look at the strangest superheroes to ever appear in comics, some so hilariously odd that it’s hard to believe they were ever published.
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Craig Munro
Craig Munro began his blue-pencil adventures at the University of Queensland Press in 1971. Over the next thirty years, he became friend, counsellor, and occasionally foil to some of the…
Stuart Kells
An intimate partnership of three brothers - Allen, Richard and John Lane - lay at the heart of Penguin Books, the twentieth century’s greatest publishing house. In a spirit of…
Meaghan Kombol
In 30:30 Landscape Architecture, 30 of the most renowned landscape architects explore the work of the 30 of the world’s top emerging architects with more than 500 illustrations.
James Whitmore,Jane Rawson
Climate change has arrived, and it’s not going away. In the absence of effective world action, global warming is certain to continue. The Handbook is not another book about climate…
Anne Whitehead
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an ‘eagle in a cage’, reduced from the most…
David Astle
After his recent hits - Puzzled and Cluetopia - David Astle continues on his brain-bending path into the field of riddles.
Rose Nick
Australia’s food system is more than just broken - it’s killing us. Now is the time to act, to make a difference - to change the world. The groundbreaking Fair…
Paolo Virno (Professore Associato, Universita' Degli Studi Roma Tre)
Translation of: Quando il verbo si fa carne.
Rudi Westendorp
What are the causes of these new developments? Has modern science found the key to eternal life? And what do longer life spans mean for the way we organise our…
O'Neil Clare,Tim Watts
Beset by spin and the battle to win each news cycle, contemporary politics is mired in short-term thinking. Too little time is given to considering creative ways in which we…
Mungo MacCallum
Be delighted, be infuriated, be inspired - but above all be entertained! This is the ultimate puzzle book- a year’s worth of Mungo MacCallum’s cryptic crosswords from The Saturday Paper…
Simon Heffer
What is the difference between amend and emend, between imply and infer, and between uninterested and disinterested? When should one put owing to rather than due to? Why should the…
Marc Lewis
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the disease model of addiction is wrong and illuminates the…
Andrew Fowler
Media Moguls, Whistleblowers and the Price of Freedom
Gisela Kaplan
This book provides a fresh view of the behaviour of Australia’s native avifauna.
The story of Changi, told by those who lived through it.
Thomas Piketty
Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, this is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one of the most pressing concerns…
Stuart Coupe,Stuart Coupe
The real story of the man behind the bands - and a backstage pass to forty years of Australian rock music.
Joel Deane
A riveting study of the politics of power Power is the only measure of a politician that matters. How they win power. How they wield power. How they lose power…