Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
The Sister -The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea by Sung-Yoon Lee
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in North Korea. Stomping the world stage from the shadows of her secretive state, she is creating headlines and fevered speculation about her role and her future. She is the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as her murd ...Show more
Banned Books by DK
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A compelling illustrated account of history's most famous banned written worksDiscover the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published.Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is "acceptable" in published works hav ...Show more
Spinoza's Overcoat: Poets by Subhash Jaireth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'It starts to rain as I step out of my hotel ....' So begins Subhash Jaireth's striking collection of essays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his own life. The works of Franz Kafka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Bulgakov, Paul Celan, Hiromi Ito, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and othe ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time. 'We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.' - The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 The power of language, discussed beautifully in Toni Morrison's ...Show more
Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope; Justin Scheck
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and WME Chairman Ari Emmanuel flew out to meet with the Crown Prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passi ...Show more
Fake: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies by Stephanie Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a former architect turned farmer she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, loving, truthful. They talk about the future. She fal ...Show more
Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll - My Amazing Journey from Sex Worker to Member of Parliament by Fiona Patten
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Sex worker, fashion designer, anti-censorship activist, fierce campaigner, political lobbyist and Member of Parliament - Fiona Patten's journey to the top has been nothing if eventful!Beginning as an AIDS educator with ACT sex worker advocacy group, WISE, she also held positions on the Board of the AIDS ...Show more
What Kind of Creatures are We? by Noam Chomsky
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy Ser.
Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on al ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 by John Pickrell (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser.
This popular yearly anthology gives a snapshot of the very best science writing Australia has to offer, including everything from the most esoteric philosophical questions about ourselves and the universe, through to practical questions about the environment in which we live.Now in its eighth year, The ...Show more
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood and the World by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
$26.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The "extraordinary" (Financial Times) instant New York Times bestseller exposing how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others--a "must read" (Booklist) tale of finance run amok and "the heist of the century" (Axios). In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl Gift Edition by Clementine Ford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.