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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
$14.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The greatest love story in English, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a play of star-crossed lovers who take a valiant stand against social convention, with tragic consequences. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with notes by T.J.B. Spencer, and an introduction by Adrian Poole. 'What's ...Show more
Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bett ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
Enigma of the Dark - The Case of the Claremont Serial Killer by Tim Clarke
$34.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Three young women snatched from the streets. From their lives, friends, and family.Two of them - Jane Louise Rimmer and Ciara Eilish Glennon - brutally slain.The third, the youngest - Sarah Ellen Spiers - still missing, but presumed dead. Assumed murdered by the same man.The hunt for their killer had al ...Show more
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and the New Culture of Deceit by Bernard Keane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: The\Critical Take Ser.
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Governmentand The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-opening dossier of Scott Morrison's documented lies with Keane's insightful take on why deceivers dominate in the new era of politics. This book is the first i ...Show more
Firestorm by Greg Mullins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Combines thrilling stories of what it's like to be on the front line of Australia's first giga-fire with the hard truths of human-caused climate change, and what we do about it. Greg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires - it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Bl ...Show more
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'A really important book . . . Everyone should read it' PHILIPPA PERRY Part of the experience of being alive in the twenty-first century is the feeling that your attention span is collapsing, along with those of everyone around you including your children. Why have we lost our ability to focus? What ar ...Show more
Lies, Damned Lies: A personal exploration of the impact of colonisation by Claire G. Coleman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'This is a difficult piece to write. It cuts closer to the bone than most of what I have written; closer to my bones, through my blood and flesh to the bones of truth and country; there is truth here, not disguised but in the open and that truth hurts.' In Lies, Damned Lies acclaimed author Claire G. ...Show more
The Redemption of Bobby Love: The Humans of New York Instagram Sensation by Bobby Love, Cheryl Love
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The inspiring, dramatic and heartwarming true story of an escaped convict, the love of his life, and how we all deserve a second chance, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York.The young Walter Miller was a product of his time. Growing up Black in the Jim Crow American South, h ...Show more
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A powerful blend of reportage, nature, travel and science writing, deeply researched and beautifully written, underpinned by a startling and urgent message for our time. 'The very treeline is on the move- a devastating image. This book is an evocative, wise and unflinching exploration of what it will m ...Show more
Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth by Patrick Nunn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The traces of much of human history and that which preceded it lie beneath the ocean surface; broken up, dispersed, often buried and always mysterious. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused in recent de ...Show more
The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine by Brendan Borrell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
An enthralling real-life thriller that tells the full inside story of the high-stakes race for a lifesaving vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemicThe global race to find a coronavirus vaccine is the defining story of our times. In The First Shots, award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings this high- ...Show more