Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink by Veronique Hyland
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery
In the spirit of works by Jia Tolentino and Anne Helen Peterson, a smart and incisive essay collection centered on the fashion industry--its history, its importance, why we wear what we wear, and why it matters--from Elle Magazine's fashion features director. Why does fashion hold so much power over ...Show more
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about ...Show more
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence and originality that have won her international acclaim.
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political
The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker--an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also c ...Show more
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World by Tyler Cowen, Daniel Gross
$55.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed by intuition, but unique each time it appears?The art and science of talent search get at exactly those questions ...Show more
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
$43.00 AUD
Category: European
On 8 June AD218 a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious. Varius Avitus Bassianus, known to the modern world as Heliogabalus, was proclaimed emperor. The next four years were to be the strangest i ...Show more
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A scintillating account of the making of The Waste Land on its centenary-and a remarkable feat of biography and storytelling. Renowned as one of the world's greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It ...Show more
A Life of Picasso Volume IV: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943 by John Richardson
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Life of Picasso Ser.
The beautifully illustrated fourth volume of Picasso's life - set in France and Spain during the Spanish Civil War and World War II - covers friendships with the surrealist painters; artistic inspiration around Guernica and the Minotaur; his muses Marie-Ther se, Dora Maar and Fran oise Gilot; and much m ...Show more
Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic - a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria-the twenty-ninth state of ...Show more
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future by Vaclav Smil
$25.00 AUD
Category: Climate
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperi ...Show more
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Health
'Magnificent.' Rachel Clarke 'A book to treasure and reread; I'm very grateful for it.' Gavin Francis As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to m ...Show more
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
'This is the book Trump fears most.' - Axios From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortur ...Show more