Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
$27.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lost is a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair. Getting Lost is the diary kept by ...Show more
Wild Maps: A Nature Atlas for Curious Minds by Mike Higgins
$39.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
From the publishers of Brilliant Maps, here is a cartographic journey through our planet's weirdest and most wonderful phenomena. Which migrating birds fly the furthest? Which nations have launched which animals into space? Which countries' leaders don't believe in climate change? Where were our planet' ...Show more
Brilliant Maps: An Atlas for Curious Minds by Ian Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
See the world anew with this unique and beautifully designed infographic atlas. WITH A FOREWORD BY TIM HARFORD Which nations have North Korean embassies? Which region has the highest number of death metal bands per capita? How many countries have bigger economies than California? Who drives on the 'wron ...Show more
Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene by Jonathan Strahan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Twelve visions of living in a climate-changed world.We are living in the Anthropocene-an era of dramatic and violent climate change featuring warming oceans, melting icecaps, extreme weather events, habitat loss, species extinction, and more. What will life be like in a climate-changed world? In Tomorro ...Show more
On Tim Winton: Writers on Writers by Geraldine Brooks
$17.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A gift of an essay that illuminates the literary talents of two of Australia's greatest writersIn this beautifully written personal essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks offers readers brilliant insights into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers, Tim Winton. In the Wr ...Show more
The Australian Dream: Sell Everything and Move to Betoota by Betoota Advocate
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
After enduring fires, floods, pandemics, rising interest rates, $10 lettuces and another bin-fire of a federal election, many Australians are saying: 'We can't go on living like this.' Rather than plugging away relentlessly in some soulless city, why not pack it all in and start Afresh? With Byron, Hoba ...Show more
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
$35.00 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more
Resilience: A Celebration of Poetry, Fiction and Essays From Mascara Literary Review by Michelle Cahill, Monique Nair, Anthea Yang
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Resilience looks upwards to the ever-changing, ever-present skies, where fingers and fist touch the horizon. Resilience is often deeply imagined and hard won. Resilience, by turn, is fervent, supple, rhizomatic, generative. Like the beguiling evenness of an orchid, resilience is enduring and delicate. T ...Show more
The Art of Feminism (Updated and Expanded): Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality by Helena Reckitt
$60.00 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
The Art of Feminism charts the birth of the feminist aesthetic and its development over two centuries that have seen profound and fast-paced change in women's lives across the globe. Including over 350 remarkable artworks, ranging from political posters and graphics to stunning and provocative pieces of ...Show more
2022: Reckoning with Power and Privilege by The Conversation, Michael Hopkin (ed.)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
As 2022 unfolded, we saw power manifest in its various guises: Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; the COVID pandemic and its international disruptions continued to shape lives globally and abortion laws changed monumentally in the US. In Australia, the power of voters changed the gove ...Show more
Right Here, Right Now by Natalie Isaacs
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
The climate action countdown and how women can lead the way In this inspiring think piece and call to action, the founder and CEO of the global climate action movement 1 Million Women explains why the place for climate action is here, why the time is now and how women can work together to lead the way. ...Show more
The Wonder of Little Things by Vince Copley, Lea McInerney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
'Welcome to my story. It's a simple story of a simple person, who's lived a long life now with some struggles along the way. I didn't learn a lot in school, not in the classroom, anyway. But I learned a lot from life.' Vince Copley was born on a government mission into poverty in 1936. By the time he w ...Show more