What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year la ...Show more
Galah: Stories of Life Outside the City by Annabelle Hickson
$69.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
It can be easy to assume nothing much happens beyond the city, if that's all you've known. But that, of course, is far from the truth. Here, across six themed chapters, journalist Annabelle Hickson shares a different perspective on life in regional Australia, featuring stories from the coast to the f ...Show more
Conversations with Buddha: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts by Joan Duncan Oliver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A relaxed chat with the Buddha tells us what he thought about impermanence, karma, mindfulness, compassion, love, and everything else that leads us toward a true understanding of ourselves and the cosmos.We know him as the Buddha, the "Awakened One". Born Siddhartha Gautama 2,500 years ago in northern I ...Show more
Taylor Swift: The Whole Story by Chas Newkey-Burden
$26.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The updated story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world with her Eras tour. A small-town girl with incredible talent – and the strength and determination to realise her dream – Taylor Swift has gone from A ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Into the Magic Shop by James Doty
$22.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
The award-winning New York Times bestseller that inspired BTS's K-pop song 'Magic Shop'. The day that 12-year-old James Doty walked in to his local magic shop is the day that changed his life. The day that 12-year-old James Doty walked in to his local magic shop is the day that changed his life. Once ...Show more
Human?: A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
$32.99 AUD
Category: australian history
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
On Giving Up by Adam Phillips
$42.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive. To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacr ...Show more
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
$36.99 AUD
Category: Business
From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and one of the world's top productivity experts, a groundbreaking philosophy for creating great work at a sustainable pace. Hustle culture. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Today we're either sacrificing ourselves on the altar of success or we'r ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 60: Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern by Laura Tingle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Quarterly Essay
Whatever happened to good government? What are the signs of bad government? And can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past in a very different world? In this crisp, profound and witty essay, Laura Tingle seeks answers to these questions. She ranges from ancient Rome to the demoralised state of ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 86: Sleepwalk to War; Australia's Unthinking Alliance with America by Hugh White
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
Is the US-Australia alliance now based on a fantasy? In this essential essay, Hugh White explores Australia's fateful choice to back the United States to the hilt, and oppose China. How did we come to this position - what led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? White considers t ...Show more