Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction by Orlando Figes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Pelican Books
AN ORIGINAL READING OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, EXAMINING IT NOT AS A SINGLE EVENT BUT AS A HUNDRED-YEAR CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF UTOPIAN DREAMS In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian Revolution. While other historians have focuse ...Show more
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick (Editor); Henry Finder (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded histo ...Show more
Why You Should Give a F*ck About Farming by Gabrielle Chan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'Australia has no national food security policy. No national agriculture policy. We know what has been going on with water allocations and there is still no national response. Those with the means and access shop at farmer's market and order their brunch referring to the origins of their eggs, bacon, bu ...Show more
Sold Down the River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia's Water Market by Scott Hamilton, Stuart Kells
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's greatest environmental asset. The story of water in Australia is written into its ancient rivers, creeks and wetlands. It's home to more than forty Indigenous nations, and it covers an area bigger than France. It is the beating heart of our regions and sustains 40 ...Show more
Unsolved Murders by Amber Hunt & Emily Thompson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: True Crime Uncovered
Ever wondered who murdered JonBenet Ramsey, or who terrorized San Francisco as the Zodiac Killer? Puzzled over the notorious Black Dahlia murder, or the shootings of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls?This true crime anthology collects together some of the most intriguing unsolved murders in the world-cases ...Show more
The Killing Streets: Uncovering Australia's First Serial Murderer by Tanya Bretherton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: The\Australian Crime Vau Ser.
From the acclaimed author of The Suitcase Baby and The Suicide Bride, the story of a series of horrific murders that began in 1930s Sydney - and a killer who remained at large for over two decades. In December 1932, as the Depression tightened its grip, the body of a woman was found in Queens Park, Sydn ...Show more
The Little Red Writing Book by Mark Tredinnick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
"The Little Red Writing Book" is a book on technique, style, craft and manners for everyone who writes and wants to do it better. It is a manual of good diction, composition, sentence craft, paragraph design, structure and planning. Enriched by examples of fine prose from great writers including Tim Win ...Show more
Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
How activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity, and why this harms everybody.BOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times
Nomad Century by Gaia Vince
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western United States, and in cities from Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai, the quadruple threat ...Show more
The Lost Girls by Ava Benny-Morrison
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The chilling true story of the heinous murder of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and daughter Khandalyce and how the case was cracked. How did two girls go missing for six years and nobody noticed? In August 2010, dirt bike riders discovered human bones in the notorious Belanglo State Forest, where, years earli ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time.The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by th ...Show more
More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'This book is a hilarious memoir, a passionate polemic, and a moving manifesto on how to be a decent person and try, in the face of countless stresses, to live a full open-hearted, joyous life.' The Sunday Times'Superbly funny' Guardian'Funny, life-affirming and wise' The Observer'There are drop-dead fu ...Show more