A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience' New Statesman, Book of the Year'Magical . . . Here we meet not just Mantel the Cromwell-catcher, b ...Show more
A Million Wild Acres: 200 Years of Man and an Australian Forest by Eric Rolls
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. By popular demand from a number of libraries and institutions, Hale and Iremonger will be producing a hardcover edition of Eric Roll's A MILLION WILD ACRES in a very short run of 300 copies. This will be a very useful Christmas gift for the serious reader of Australian history ...Show more
A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey Memoir by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How did a shy Polish immigrant kid-Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki-evolve into the wildly eccentric Dr Karl? The only child of Holocaust survivors who fled to Australia in 1950, little Karl was wildly idiosyncratic from the get go. In the sixties, he roasted raw chickens on the ta ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
A Year of Garden Bees and Bugs by Dominic Couzens, Gail Ashton
$37.99 AUD
Category: Home and Garden
A fascinating journey into the secret life of insects, experts Dominic Couzens and Gail Ashton discover 52 minibeasts from around the world, every week of the year. Just as birds have yearly rhythms, so do insects, bees, beetles and butterflies, and they tell the story of what is happening week-by-week ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
After the Worst has Happened
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Tales from a funeral director on the lighter side of death. When Richard Gosling's young daughter faced emergency surgery, a colleague carelessly asked what would happen if she died. In that moment, Richard was forced to picture his own daughter's funeral, and the people who are there to help families ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland: Gift Set Edition Cookbook and Apron by Insight Editions
$65.00 AUD
Category: Cooking
Go down the rabbit hole with Alice, the Mad Hatter, and more with this whimsical cookbook gift set, inspired by the animated Disney classic Alice in Wonderland! Mealtimes keep getting “curiouser and curiouser,” with this delightful gift set. Filled with fantastical appetizers, mains, and desserts, this ...Show more
Alice ™: The Biggest Untold Story in the History of Money by Stuart Kells
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Finance
In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money flows, a handful of people saw a new financial future and staked claims in it, triggering a battle to control the world's money markets. With phenomenal profits at stake, the conflict would go all the way to the United States Supreme Court, ...Show more
Alone: The First Australian Woman to Row the Atlantic by Michelle Lee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The inspiring true story of Michelle Lee, the first Australian woman to solo row the Atlantic Ocean. From the two-year preparation for launch to the 68-day, 5,000km journey across the Atlantic in 2018, Solo details the thrilling highs and challenging lows Michelle faced on the open waters. This is the s ...Show more
Alone Time: Embracing solitude for health and well-being by Sybil Geldart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Being alone gives you the chance to think about yourself and your needs and goals without undue pressure, distractions or interference. The importance of personal space in a changing world. In Alone Time, clinical psychologist and professor of psychology Sybil Geldart, PhD draws on personal anecdotes, c ...Show more
Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough
$21.99 AUD
Category: Family & Relationships
From Ampersand Prize-winning author Erin Gough comes this ferociously funny romp through an elite private school, and a brilliant feminist hoax that could change - or ruin - everything. Harriet Price has the perfect life: she's a prefect at Rosemead Grammar, she lives in a mansion, and her gorgeous girl ...Show more