No Echo (Hanne Wilhelmsen #6) by Anne Holt
29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Hanne Wilhelmsen Series
When celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of the Olso police headquarters it sends a shockwave through the city's in-crowd. Ziegler had lots of famous friends, is there a culprit among them - or was this a random act of violence? Police investigator Billy T. takes on ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 62: Firing Line: Australia and the Path to War by James Brown
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay
"Going to war may be the gravest decision a nation and its leaders make. At the moment, Australia is at war with the Islamic State. We also live in a region that has become much more volatile, as China asserts itself and America seeks to hold the line. What is it like to go to war? How do we decide to g ...Show more
The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World by Steve Hely
32.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad , and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for their backpack ...Show more
The Truffle Cookbook by Rodney Dunn
59.99 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
"In his second cookbook, Rodney Dunn, founder of The Agrarian Kitchen in Tasmania, celebrates the natural wonder that is the truffle. In addition to more than 60 recipes, Rodney gives a fascinating insight into the Australian truffle industry and practical advice on buying, storing and (most importantly ...Show more
The Crime Writer by Jill Dawson
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk in order to concentrate on her writing. She has other motives too - a secret romance with a married woman based in London and her dislike of the fame and attention that has followed her since her first nove ...Show more
Auctioneer: A Memoir of Great Art, Legendary Collectors and Record-Breaking Auctions by Simon de Pury
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Simon de Pury is the art world's ultimate insider. His roles have included curator of the world-famous Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Chairman of Sotheby's Europe, and founder and owner of Sotheby's rival Phillips de Pury. His exuberant style, showmanship and iconoclasm in a highly conservative professi ...Show more
Moby: Porcelain: A Memoir by Moby
29.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Reading Level: very good
There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene of the late 1980s and early 90s. This was the New York of Palladium, of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo, an era when dance music was still a largely underground phenomenon, popular chiefly among working-cl ...Show more
The First Hippo on the Moon by David Walliams
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Reading Level: very good
From Number One bestselling picture book duo, David Walliams and Tony Ross, comes this explosively funny space adventure for children of 3 and up. Two big hippos.One ENORMOUS dream.Who can make it to the moon first?3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .BLAST OFF! Introducing a wonderfully charming and funny new pictur ...Show more
The Dry (#1 Aaron Falk) by Jane Harper
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Reading Level: very good
"You will feel the heat, taste the dust and blink into the glare. The Dry is a wonderful crime novel that shines a light into the darkest corner of a sunburnt country." Michael Robotham "One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read" David Baldacci Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then hi ...Show more
Fatal Pursuit: A Bruno Courreges Investigation (#9) by Martin Walker
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Bruno, Chief of Police / The Dordogne Mysteries / A Mystery of the French Countryside
The Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic was called the most beautiful car of all time. Only four of them were ever built. A California museum paid $37 million for one; Ralph Lauren bought another; a third was smashed by a train at a level crossing. The fourth disappeared in France during World War 2. It was the ca ...Show more
Hotels of North America by Rick Moody
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Reginald Edward Morse is a man in need of an outlet. And he finds it in a very twenty-first century place: the internet. Specifically, RateYourLodging.com, where Americans go to find out the truth about hotels, motels and, horrors, bed and breakfasts. But the real joy of those sites is not so much the a ...Show more
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Muller
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fu ...Show more