Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
$16.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Katherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives ...Show more
Mothering Heights: A year of joy and survival in the trenches of early parenthood by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A comedy, tragedy and farcical romp all rolled into one, Mothering Heights is a year-in-the-life love story about becoming a mother from the hilarious author of Pardon My French, Rachael Mogan McIntosh. For fans of ABC TV's The Letdown, Nina Stibbe's Love, Nina and Alison Pearson's I Don't Know How She ...Show more
Self-Knowledge in 40 Images
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A visual journey to inspire and guide you through the inward exploration of the self. When Socrates, apparently the wisest man of antiquity, was asked to define our highest purpose as humans, he responded, 'To know ourselves.' The advice has never been bettered. Without self-knowledge, all other efforts ...Show more
Complete Illustrated Guide Turning by Richard Raffan
$59.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Series: Complete Illustrated Guides (Taunton) Ser.
Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Turning features step-by-step descriptions for an abundance of wood turning techniques, including both spindle and faceplate methods. Over 900 color photos accompany detailed, hands-on instructions for turning wood, including how to use lathes, turning tools and m ...Show more
Australia's Ultimate Bucket List 2nd edition: The Top 101 Places You Should See In Your Lifetime by Jennifer Adams, Clint Bizzell, Emma De Fry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
This updated and newly designed edition of Australia's Ultimate Bucket List remains the best gift book to inspire your next Australian travel adventure! Authors and Channel Ten Places We Go presenters Jennifer Adams and Clint Bizzell, along with avid traveller Emma De Fry, have once again scoured the c ...Show more
The Twat Files: A hilarious sort-of memoir of mistakes, mishaps and mess-ups by Dawn French
$36.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last sixty years. Nincompoop. Nitwit. Lunatic. Dork. All lovely . . . but . . . nah . . . I prefer Twat. It's neat and it's accurate somehow. Because, yes, I am a Twat . . . sometimes. Aren't we all? THE TWAT ...Show more
Weirdo by Sara Pascoe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The debut novel from the bestselling and award-winning comedian, writer and actor Sara Pascoe. Weirdo follows Sophie; feverishly anxious and working hard to be happy in her own skin - if only life wouldn't make that so hard. THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN, WRITER AND ACT ...Show more
How to Have an Epic Retirement by Bec Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
More than 500,000 Australians plan to retire in the next five years and are in their pre-retirement or 'part time' retirement years, preparing for the massive life change that signals their move from working every day to living as they choose. Rebecca Wilson, founder of the hugely successful online plat ...Show more
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and art ...Show more
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Tom; Sand Goalhanger; Holland Podcasts
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland ...Show more
On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live, the first post-pandemic book to take our latest measurements and provide something fresh to comfort, embolden, enlighten and enrich who we are today' LISA TADDEO Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Envy. Pride. These so-called 'deadly sins', conse ...Show more
Gigorou: It’s Time to Reclaim Beauty. First Nations Wisdom and Womanhood by Sasha Kutabah Sarago
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
'You're too pretty to be Aboriginal' is a shocking statement Sasha Kutabah Sarago experienced at a young age. In her 2020 TEDx talk, 'The (de)colonising of beauty', Sasha shares how she reclaimed her femininity by redefining beauty. In challenging our modern-day concepts of beauty from a First Nations w ...Show more