Big Boys' Toys

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All over the country, in sheds, hangers and harbours, a silent army of dedicated other halves have been tinkering away. At last, in Big Boys’ Toys, these blokes step out into the daylight to be counte …

Lucio's Ligurian Kitchen

A beautifully photographed luscious cookbook featuring 180 delicious recipes from Liguria.In 2008 Lucio Galletto and writer David Dale, along with photographer Paul Green, journeyed to the birthplace …

Manning Clark

Manning Clark was one of the most influential Australian intellectuals in the closing half of the last century. His political statements were at times highly provocative and his broad generalisations, …

On The Wealth of Nations

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A New York Times BestsellerAs P. J. O’Rourke says, ‘It’s as if Smith, having proved that we can all have more money, then went on to prove that money doesn’t buy happiness. And it doesn’t. It rents it …

Spiders

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Spiders are everywhere. No matter how clean, how stark, how sterile your home, the spiders will come. Spiderlings will balloon in and wait for the insects that will appear. Adult spiders will walk in. …

Zeno and the Tortoise

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A witty and irreverent guide to the key ideas and methods of the world’s greatest thinkers.Zeno and the Tortoise explains not just who each philosopher was and what he thought, but exactly how he came …

An Expensive Education

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An army roadblock. An American intelligence agent. A jetlagged afternoon on the Somalian plain. Michael Teak is not afraid of mercenaries. Life here comes at a price and as a CIA operative, Teak is ho …

Anything Goes

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Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, th …

Murder on a Midsummer Night

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The seventeenth Phryne Fisher murder mysteryMelbourne, 1929. The year starts off for glamorous private investigator Phryne Fisher with a rather trying heat wave and more mysteries than you could prod …

The Constant Economy

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Since the industrial revolution, the economies of developed nations have grown at the expense of the natural world. But the earth’s resources are finite, climate change threatens to dramatically trans …

The Pill

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A groundbreaking book, The Pill is accessible, informed and inspiring. Exploring the physical and psychological repercussions of taking the Pill-from side effects like weight gain and depression to po …

Wages of Guilt

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In this highly original and now classic text, Ian Buruma explores and compares how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with their violent pasts, and investigates the painful realities of …

Jack Fingleton

A life marked by a feud with Australia’s greatest batsman, bravery in the face of Bodyline and relationships in the corridors of Parliament.Jack Fingleton was a formidable Australian opener during the …

Rimbaud

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Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) died young but his extraordinary poetry continues to influence and inspire – fans include Dylan, Jim Morrison, Patti Smith. His long poem Un Saison en Enfer …

The Collected Poems 1956 – 1998

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Zbigniew Herbert is one of the outstanding poets of the last century. This exceptional new translation brings together, for the first time in English in one volume, his entire poetic output – from his …

The Dancer from Khiva

In a narrative that flows like a late-night confession, Bibish recounts her story… Born into an impoverished family in a deeply religious village, Bibish was named ‘Hadjarbibi’ in honour of her gran …