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Ex Libris: 100 Books for Everyone's Bookshelf by Michiko Kakutani
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
From 'the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world' (Vanity Fair) comes an inspiring and beautifully illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss 'Why do we love books so much?' For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books have always been an esca ...Show more
The 50 Greatest Wonders of the World by Aaron Millar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
Award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar reveals the greatest wonders of the world and the insider secrets on how to see them at their awe-inspiring best. Featuring selections from around the globe, and a number of new and never-seen-before entries, this compendium of bucket-list experiences is designed ...Show more
Humans by Brandon Stanton
$44.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General | Series: Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton's Humans is a book that connects readers as global citizens at a time when erecting more borders is the order of the day. It shows us the entire world, one story at a time. After five years of travelling the globe, the creator of Humans of New York brings people from all parts of the wor ...Show more
Normal People: The Scripts by Sally Rooney
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
The complete screenplays of the acclaimed Emmy-nominated drama based on Sally Rooney's bestselling novel. 'You know, I did used to think that I could read your mind at times.' 'In bed you mean.' 'Yeah. And afterwards but I dunno maybe that's normal.' 'It's not.' Connell and Marianne grow up in the same ...Show more
We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama by E.J. Dionne Jr. & Joy-Ann Reid
$15.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'In his speeches as president, Barack Obama had the power to move people from all over the world as few leaders before him. We Are the Change We Seek is a collectio ...Show more
Far from Land - The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds by Michael Brooke; Bruce Pearson (Illustrator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
The lives and activities of seabirds as you've never seen them before Seabirds evoke the spirit of the earth's wildest places. They spend large portions of their lives at sea, often far from land, and nest on remote islands that humans rarely visit. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated and miniaturized ...Show more
The Book Lover's Quiz Book by Gary Wigglesworth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
'Brilliantly inventive and entertaining questions from the bookworm's bookworm' Mark Mason, author of Walk the Lines, Question Time and many more This is a literary quiz book with a difference. Rather than basic sets of questions, The Book Lover's Quiz Book mirrors the format of Gary's live quizzes, at ...Show more
A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Steve Mockus (Editor); Francis Grose
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is a profane guide to the slang from the backstreets and taverns of 18th-century London. This slang dictionary gathers the most amusing and useful terms from English history and helpfully presents them to be used in the conversations of our modern day. O ...Show more
The Language Lover's Puzzle Book - Lexical Perplexities and Cracking Conundrums from Across the Globe by Alex Bellos
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes.
The Sensational Houdini's Puzzle Safe - A Collection of Puzzles Inspired by the Master of Mystery by Tim Dedopulos
$17.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General | Series: Y Ser.
The Sensational Houdini's Puzzle Safe contains 50 exciting puzzles inspired by the greatest escapologist to have ever lived. With puzzle chains where one wrong answer can leave you locked in a never-ending circle of puzzles, and logic problems designed to confound the minds of the unworthy, this puzzle ...Show more
Love Voltaire Us Apart: A Philosopher's Guide to Relationships by Julia Edelman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General | Reading Level: General Adult
What would Kant's sexts look like? How would Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir break up? What would Confucius think of Tinder? Love Voltaire Us Apart is a hilarious spoof relationship guide with a philosophical edge, made up of philosophers' love letters, advice columns and breakup letters. From C ...Show more
Veteran Motor Cars by Steve Lanham
$17.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General | Series: Shire Library
A concise illustrated history of the earliest cars in Britain up to 1905, and the people who manufactured and drove them. During the late Victorian/early Edwardian period, the development of the motor car represented the peak of technological experimentation. Termed "horseless carriages, these cars were ...Show more