Darkest England
Christopher HopeRRP: £9.99
David Mungo Booi is a descendant of the Bushmen who once lived in the distant African Karoo. Chosen by a conclave of elders, travelling on funds raised by public subscription, sponsored by the Society …
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Flight Command
John OddieRRP: £14.99
As a farm boy in western Victoria, John Oddie would watch RAAF jets pass overhead as he ploughed hay fields, wondering what it would be like to fly such a machine. Thirty-five years later – having flo …
Kruger's Alp
Christopher HopeRRP: £9.99
Theodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger, and his lost city of gold. As a child he had heard tales of Kruger from a wayward priest; what follows is an …
Telling True Stories
Matthew RicketsonRRP: £14.99
It’s etched into our neurological pathways; we can’t live without it. Telling true stories is one of the things that makes us human, and a strong narrative has the power to profoundly change the way w …
The Garments of Court and Palace
Philip BobbittRRP: £20.00
The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics – and in particular the p …
The Gypsy Goddess
Meena KandasamyRRP: £8.99
The provocative debut by the Women’s Fiction Prize 2018-shortlisted author of When I Hit You. When women take to protest, there is no looking back. Sometimes it is over working conditions, other times …
The Iceberg
Marion CouttsRRP: £10.99
In 2008 the art critic Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The tumour was located in the area controlling speech and language, and would eventually rob him of the ability to speak. He died …
The Interior Circuit
Francisco GoldmanRRP: £9.99
The Interior Circuit is Goldman’s story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico C …
The Quest for a Moral Compass
Kenan MalikRRP: £12.99
In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer’s Greece to Mao’s China, from ancient India to modern …
The Raven's Eye
Barry MaitlandRRP: £7.99
A woman dies in her sleep in a houseboat on the Thames; the apparent cause of death, an unflued gas heater. It all seems straightforward, but DI Kathy Kolla isn’t convinced. Both Kathy and DCI Brock r …
The Templar Inheritance
Mario ReadingRRP: £7.99
From the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling authorA Templar secret, hidden for centuries… 1198. On the eve of his execution, disgraced Templar knight Johannes von Hartelius writes a last confession. The …
Where the Truth Lies
Julia HobsbawmRRP: £12.99
The relationship between the serious news media and the truth is under scrutiny as never before. In recent years the BBC and the New York Times have been knocked sideways by scandals alleging exaggera …
Wisdom For Your Life
Katrina CavanoughRRP: £8.99
As a therapist and frontline social worker in a busy emergency department, Katrina faces psychological trauma, death and grief every day of her working life. What makes her story so powerful is that K …
Broken Nation
Joan BeaumontRRP: £16.99
The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined that nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac ‘legend’. But it was a …
Moral Tribes
Joshua GreeneRRP: £12.99
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world’s tribes into a shared s …
Murder and Mendelssohn
Kerry GreenwoodRRP: £7.99
The twentieth Phryne Fisher murder mysteryAn orchestral conductor has been found dead and Detective Inspector Jack Robinson needs the delightfully incisive and sophisticated Miss Fisher’s assistance t …
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