Life in Pieces by Dawn O'Porter
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Dear 2020 - can we just start over? Dawn O'Porter has been thinking about life. In lockdown. Mostly from a cupboard. From reflections on grief and identity, bad hair and parenting, sleep and spirituality, to the things we can control and the things we cannot, Dawn's daily diaries track the journey ...Show more
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now--as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East. "All roads used to lead to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing." So argues P ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
$22.99 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.
The Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence Krauss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency' Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world's most respected physicists and science popularizers, cuts through ...Show more
Mediocre - The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
From the author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. 'Deftly combines history and sociological study with personal narrative, and the result is both uncomfortable and illuminating' Washington Post ...Show more
The Illustrated Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A new, beautifully illustrated hardback edition of the bestselling Etymologicon, published on its tenth anniversary. 'Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless.' - Independent.The Etymologicon is an ...Show more
We Need Snowflakes: In defence of the sensitive, the angry and the offended by Hannah Jewell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Is 'cancel culture' spiralling out of hand?Are the youth of today oversensitive, mollycoddled and intellectually weak?Does the scourge of political correctness threaten the very fabric of our society?Indignant politicians, columnists and baby boomers certainly think so. The problem, we're told repeatedl ...Show more
The War on the West by Douglas Murray
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers ‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’ In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind ...Show more
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Social & Cultural history
When white people cry foul it is often people of colour who suffer. White tears have a potency that silences racial minorities. White Tears/Brown Scarsblows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood. Never is this more obvious than the de ...Show more
Wordy - Sounding off on high art, low appetite and the power of memory by Simon Schama
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall fo ...Show more
Shot Down: The Powerful Story of What Happened to MH17 over Ukraine and the Lives of Those Who Were on Board by Marianne van Velzen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: MH17
The first full telling of what happened to MH17 and the stories of those who were killed on that tragic day.