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
What's the Worst That Could Happen? Existential Risk and Extreme Politics by Andrew Leigh
$44.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Why catastrophic risks are more dangerous than you think, and how populism is making them worse. Did you know that you're more likely to die from a catastrophe than in a car crash? The odds that a typical US resident will die from a catastrophic event--for example, nuclear war, bioterrorism, or out- ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 193 ...Show more
What The Fuck Is This by Celeste Mountjoy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Australian artist Celeste Mountjoy (aka Filthyratbag) aims for the heart in her first book, WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS, a stunningly original collection of illustrations and observations on being young, female and occasionally seriously f&*%ed off. Unnerving, empowering, heartbreaking and hilarious, Cel ...Show more
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever. Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of ...Show more
Red Zone: China's Challenge and Australia's Future by Peter Hartcher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
China is a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions when it comes to Australia? And what lies behind the recent chill in relations between the two countries? In this gripping book, Peter Hartcher shows how Australia woke up to China's c ...Show more
Coming of Age in the War on Terror: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Randa Abdel-Fattah
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'One minute you're a 15-year old girl who loves Netflix and music and the next minute you're looked at as maybe ISIS.' The generation born at the time of the 9/11 attacks are turning 18. What has our changed world meant for them? We now have a generation - Muslim and non-Muslim - who have grown up only ...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
Against All Odds: The inside account of the Thai cave rescue and the courageous Australians at the heart of it by Richard Harris, Craig Challen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
‘I just want to warn you. You’re going to dive to the end of the cave. You’re going to see these kids. They’re all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you’re going to swim away, and they’re probably all going to die.’ In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Australia: How a great nation lost its way by Nick Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Never before has Australia enjoyed such economic, commercial, diplomatic and cultural clout. Its recession-proof economy is the envy of the world. It's the planet's great lifestyle superpower. Its artistic exports win unprecedented acclaim. But never before has its politics been so brutal, narrow and fa ...Show more
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'It was a simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait ...Show more
Great Australian Outback Yarns: Volume 1 by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A collection of the funniest yarns and most colourful characters from the bestselling 'Great Australian Stories' series from beloved storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh. When he'd finished playing, a solemn silence fell as Brian and the gravediggers stared down into that three-quarter-filled hole. 'I must a ...Show more