Ask an Adventurer by Alastair Humphreys
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Live adventurously, be creatice, make a living: What is it like to build a life from unconventional careers? Adventurers cross deserts and row oceans, appearing to live the dream. Yet they also must pay the bills and carve out time to get away. Are you trying to make a career doing what you love, ...Show more
Sensational: A New Story of Our Senses by Ashley Ward
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'A future classic of popular science' Mail on Sunday'A dazzling account' Financial Times'Absorbing, surprising and at times profound. After reading this, reality will never be quite the same' Dave GoulsonOur senses are how we navigate the world: they help us recognise the expressions on a loved one's fa ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Ageing - Essential conversations and practical advice to navigate the ageing journey with confidence by Melissa Levi
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Do you get the sense that something's just not quite right with yourself, Mum or Grandpa? Does your family avoid having the big conversations about ageing? Are you confused and overwhelmed? You are not alone. Clinical psychologist Melissa Levi has helped more than a thousand older people, and their fami ...Show more
Essential Bushfire Safety Tips by Joan Webster OAM
$29.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Backed by verified scientific facts, this book brings a message of hope and empowerment: that with appropriate knowledge, preparation and awareness, towns, homes and people can survive wildfires. Set out in easy-to-read dot-point one liners, it takes you step-by-step through every aspect of bushfire saf ...Show more
The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium by Prudence Gibson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales — its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.Who gets to collect plants, name them, propagate them, extract their chemicals, sell them and use them? Whose knowledge is it? And what can the people tha ...Show more
Big Love: Reclaiming myself, my people, my country by Brooke Blurton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalities My story is about the one thing that I never went without. Love. Big love, that filled me up and made me feel like there was a future for me. The kin ...Show more
Australia in 50 Plays by Julian Meyrick
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Australia in 50 Plays is Julian Meyrick's lively and accessible account of the remarkable relationship between our national drama and our national life, examining fifty outstanding plays of diverse content and style that have appeared in the 120 years since Federation. Energetic, entertaining and origin ...Show more
Outlaws of the Leopolds by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
North West Australia - in the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges, formerly known as the King Leopold Ranges between 1879 and 2020, is the setting for the story of Aboriginal leader Jandamarra and his fight against white invasion of his country.Jandamarra, who was also known as Pigeon, had been a blacktracker of ...Show more
Dogs: A Philosophical Guide to Our Best Friends by Mark Alizart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Man's best friend, domesticated since prehistoric times, a travelling companion for explorers and artists, thinkers and walkers, equally happy curled up by the fire and bounding through the great outdoors--dogs matter to us because we love them. But is that all there is to the canine's good-natured vora ...Show more
Vulture Capitalism: Corproate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris John ...Show more
The Times How To Crack Cryptic Crosswords [Second Edition] by Tim Moorey
$18.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
An updated edition from expert crossword setter and experienced tutor, Tim Moorey, including 24 brand-new annotated practice crosswords. Cryptic crosswords are no longer the preserve of the elite: in this easy-to-use guide, Tim demonstrates that anyone who enjoys words and word play can learn to solve a ...Show more
Shopping Lists: A Consuming Fascination by Ingrid Swenson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Some years ago, Ingrid Swenson began collecting found shopping lists from the same North London Waitrose. Enlightening and funny, fascinating, and poetic, these private notes to self-detailing someone's weekly shop-rocket and antibacterial wipes, treacle and prawns, fags and milk - invite us to speculat ...Show more