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The Celts: A Sceptical History
Author: Simon Jenkins (Columnist) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The history of the Celts is the history of a misnomer. There has never been a distinct people, race or...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: Fran Lebowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin...
The Dialogues of Socrates
Author: Plato Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Socrates' most dedicated student, Plato, offers a detailed and eye-opening account of the Socratic belief in one's own responsibility through Socrates' dialogue with...
Robodog
Author: David Walliams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Enter a world of superheroes and villains in this action-packed comic caper from No.1 bestselling author David Walliams - and meet...
De Profundis
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: An account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness'....
Frida Kahlo: Little Guide to Great Lives
Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Frida Kahlo was a colourful Mexican artist who endured great pain and hardship, but used her bright, vivid brushstrokes to express...
Edith Blake's War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War
Author: Krista Vane-Tempest Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 In the early hours of 26 February 1918, the British hospital ship Glenart Castle steamed into the Bristol Channel, heading for...
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893
Author: Vanessa Finney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Trade Illustration Selection in the 2020 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show SHORTLISTED for Australian Book Design Awards 2020 Best Designed...
The Boy in the Dress
Author: David Walliams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The sparkling debut children's novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country,...
Bush Life: Stories from the beating heart of rural Australia
Author: Beauty in the Bush Collective Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 There's an authenticity to bush life - an appreciation of raw beauty, simple rituals and genuine people. A...
Australia's Toughest Sports People
Author: Mick Colliss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Gillian Rolton fell off her horse, broke a rib, and climbed back on to win a gold medal for Australia at...
Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour
Author: Kai Kupferschmidt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world - and to understand our collective obsession with this bewitching colour....
Tibetan Book of the Dead
Author: Format: Paperback Number of Pages: One of the greatest works created by any culture and one of the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The...
The Richest Man in Babylon
Author: George S. Clason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: For more than 90 years, The Richest Man in Babylon has been recognized as one of the world's most enduring guides...
French Connection: Australia's cosmopolitan ambitions
Author: Alexis Bergantz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize The French have been integral to the Australian story since European colonisation....
Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food
Author: Katherine Tamiko Arguile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes...
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History
Author: Ian Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Geography is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical...
The Chain: The Award-Winning Suspense Thriller of the Year
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Author: Adrian McKinty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE ONLY WAY TO GET YOUR CHILD BACK IS TO KIDNAP ANOTHER CHILD 'A blazing, full-tilt thriller that entirely justifies the...
Under Occupation
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Author: Alan Furst Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From "America's preeminent spy novelist" (The New York Times) comes a fast-paced, mesmerizing thriller of the French resistance fighters working secretly...
My Inventions
Author: Nikola Tesla Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a revolutionary scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. Tesla's greatest invention,...
The Analects
Author: Confucius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The Analects are a collection of Confucius' sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express...
When There Were Birds: The forgotten history of our connections
Author: Roy Adkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Birds are a joy and solace in troubled times, as well as a reminder of past experiences and a symbol of...
The Blackhouse
Author: Carole Johnstone Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A remote village. A deadly secret. An outsider who knows the truth... 'ATMOSPHERIC AND COMPELLING' CATHERINE COOPER 'ENGROSSING, EVOCATIVE AND CHILLING'...
The Deep History Of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Author: Joseph LeDoux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and...
Ascension
Author: Nicholas Binge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 "Old-school creepy. . . a five-star horror novel." STEPHEN KING A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a...
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
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Author: James Wyllie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's...
The Secrets of Bridgewater Bay: A gripping dual-time novel of family secrets to be hidden at all costs...
Author: Julie Brooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Two women set sail for a new life in Australia, bound by a secret that will change everything. The Secrets of...
The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
Author: Jim Davidson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and...
Murder Before Evensong: The instant no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Reverend Richard Coles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his...
Anne Frank
Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Anne Frank was an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times. Forced to go into hiding to escape the Nazis persecution of...
The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect
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Author: Wendy Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In this "deeply personal and lyrical book" (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams...
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Author: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 A TOP TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS...
Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography
Author: Ronnie James Dio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Ronnie James Dio was a heavy metal icon and frontman of three of the best-selling, most influential and famous rock...
Mad about You
Author: Mhairi McFarlane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 And now, pre-order Mhairi's brilliant new romcom, BETWEEN US, coming spring 2023! Two strangers. One big coincidence. Driving each other crazy...
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London
Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A gripping masterpiece'...
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Author: Gertrude Stein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday...
The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
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Author: Lecturer in Classics Edmund Richardson (Durham University UK) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A lost city. A thousand-year-old mystery. A quest that changed history. Beneath the plains of...
The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions): 'A wonderful noir thriller and tremendous rediscovery' - William Boyd
Author: Emeric Pressburger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'This extraordinary novel had me hooked from start to finish, and left me with so much to brood on that I...
The Old Woman With the Knife
Author: Gu Byeong-mo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. A fighter who has experienced loss and grief early on...
Minecraft Epic Inventions
Author: Mojang AB Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Twelve mind-blowing Minecraft builds to spark your imagination. Are you a keen inventor? Looking for inspiration for your next epic build?...
Castles in their Bones
Author: Laura Sebastian Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Born to rule. Raised to deceive. A new trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess. The plot:...
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard
Author: Richard Greene Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told...
Rilke: The Last Inward Man
Author: Lesley Chamberlain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde...
The Flight of the Aphrodite
Author: S J Morden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A thrilling standalone science fiction space adventure from Philip K. Dick award-winning author S.J. Morden Strange radio signals are coming...
The Murder Book: The incredibly dramatic Sunday Times Tom Thorne bestseller
Author: Mark Billingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Tom Thorne has it all. In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side. He finally has...
The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
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Author: Dr Guy Leschziner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads readers through the senses and how, through them, our brain understands...