The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
"A wonderful story... It has all the ingredients of one of Patrick McGrath's icily stylish novels: madness, violence, arcane obsessions, weird learning, ghastly comedy" - John Banville, Literary Review. Two distinguished-looking Victorians, both learned and serious, yet from very different worlds: one a ...Show more
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
*As featured on BBC Breakfast, Radio 5Live and Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2*From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station - what it's like out there and what it's like now, back here. Enter Scott Kelly's fascinating world and dare to thin ...Show more
Robert F. Kennedy Ripples of Hope by Kerry Kennedy
$9.99 AUD
$39.99 (75% off)
Category: General Non Fiction
Kennedy shares personal remembrances of her father and through interviews with politicians, media personalities, celebrities and leaders, explores the influence that he continues to have on the issues at the heart of America's identity.
100 Books that Changed the World by Scott Christianson
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think? In 100 Books that Changed the World, authors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter bri ...Show more
Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky
$39.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It has created civilisations, fostering the fomenting o ...Show more
Breaking the Ice: How We Will Get Through Australia's Methamphetamine Crisis by Matthew Noffs
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
'The so-called war on drugs has been a colossal failure, and this book offers further proof that we must treat drug use as a public health issue, not as a crime' Sir Richard Branson This landmark book, from Matt Noffs and his team at the Noffs Foundation, is a much-needed voice of reason in the national ...Show more
Red: A History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey
$19.99 AUD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: General Non Fiction
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLERThe brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages and across multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art The mere mention of red hair calls to mind vivid pictures. Stereotypes of redheaded wom ...Show more
Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
$19.99 AUD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: General Non Fiction
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
Isis: Inside the Army of Terror: Updated Edition by Hassan Hassan
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who behead Western hostages in slickly produced videos and have ...Show more
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Contemporary culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter. Clinical psychologist Dr Meg Jay argues that this could not be further from the truth. In fact, your twenties are the most defining decade of adulthood. The Defining Decade weaves the latest science of the twentysomething years with r ...Show more
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy ...Show more
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form ...Show more