In/Out: A Scandalous Story of Falling Into Love and Out of the Church by Steph Lentz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
In January 2021, Steph Lentz was fired from her job as an English teacher at a Sydney Christian school after she came out as a lesbian. A hardcore Christian during her teens and twenties, Steph once preached against homosexuality and defended her church's conservative teachings about marriage and sex - ...Show more
Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom: Words on Love, Life, Society and Literature by KIRK ASSAF ANDREA
$19.99 AUD
Category: Reading & writing
Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the greatest females writers in the English language.Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated female writers in history, best known for her novels about love, life, friendship and faith, all ...Show more
The Art of the Hobbit [75th Anniversary Edition] by J R R Tolkien
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art & design
A sumptuous full colour art book containing the complete collection of more than 100 Hobbit sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien. When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished amateur artist, and drew illustrations for his book while it was still in manuscript. ...Show more
A Different Way to Learn - Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education by Naomi Fisher
$38.99 AUD
Category: Health & wellbeing
'If you are a parent worrying whether self-directed education will work for your child, because you have been told that they have special needs which can only be met in the school system - think again'Neurodivergent children experience and interact with the world differently to many of their peers. Stan ...Show more
Aphrodite's Breath: A mother and daughter's Greek Island adventure by Susan Johnson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell. In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at the ...Show more
Naval Battles of the Second World War - The Atlantic and the Mediterranean by Leo Marriott
$60.00 AUD
Category: History & military
The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theater of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo Marriott's highly illustrated two-volume account of the s ...Show more
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Health & wellbeing
There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing- take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how t ...Show more
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Health & wellbeing | Reading Level: very good
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and ...Show more
Botanical Sketchbooks by Helen Bynum; William Bynum
$49.99 AUD
Category: Home & garden
A visual compendium of botanical sketches, many specially photographed, providing a revealing insight into the immediate responses of artists encountering the glories of the plant world. While highly finished drawings and paintings frequently feature in histories of botanical art, the preparatory sketch ...Show more
Naturescapes: How to create a natural Australian garden by Phillip Withers, AB Bishop
$59.99 AUD
Category: Home & garden
Landscape design expert Phillip Withers and habitat expert AB Bishop join forces to share their wealth of experiences in how to create stunning Australian gardens that support the local environment. Naturalistic gardens help plants, creatures and people thrive. This book shows how to take inspiration fr ...Show more
What's for Dinner? by Jill Griffiths
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
What are we really eating? How do we eat in a way that nourishes us and does least harm to the environment? What exactly do farmers do? Should the world go vegan? Do food miles matter?Never before has so much food been produced by so few people to feed so many. Never before have Australian consumers bee ...Show more
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof. The seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, a ...Show more