Safe: How to Stay Safe in a Dangerous World by Chris Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In today's increasingly hostile climate people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe. Chris Ryan is an expert in dangerous situations and here he tells you how to keep yourself and your family safe from the perils of modern urban life. He leads you through a variety of situations including what ...Show more
Story of Australian English by Kel Richards
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of 'Englishes'. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, a ...Show more
Taking to the Skies by Jim Eames
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
So how do you test drive a Jumbo? And why did a civil aviation director once taxi a plane down Perth's main street to attend a ball? From the ridiculous to the downright dangerous, the story of Australian aviation is full of tales of adventure and nation building. It is also a story about tragedy and ec ...Show more
Love in A Sunburnt Country by Jo Jackson King
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Eight fascinating real-life stories of romance in the Australian outback from a gifted storyteller and bestselling author, Jo Jackson King. 'It is always love that keeps or pulls women into the outback towns and properties and those are the stories I want to tell.' The bush can be a difficult place to c ...Show more
What is a Refugee? by William Maley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In a globalised world, wealthy states have the resources to protect refugees
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Strange Days Indeed tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of western politics and culture in the 1970s. Francis Wheen will vividly evoke the characters, events and atmosphere of an era in which the truth was far stranger than even the most ...Show more
Beyond Belief by Hugh Mackay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
What do people actually mean when they say 'God'?Around two-thirds of us say we believe in God or some 'higher power', but fewer than one in ten Australians attend church weekly. In Beyond Belief, Hugh Mackay presents this discrepancy as one of the great unexamined topics of our time. He argues that whi ...Show more
Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, and the surprising. The result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history and yarning to mates a ...Show more
Australia's Best Unknown Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
From Jim Haynes, one of Australia's most successful and prolific authors, comes a collection of classic Australian stories, yarns, and furphies. . . all of them unknown. Things are not always as they seem, or as we've been told. Was the Ghan really named after the Afghan traders, and do we really know w ...Show more
No Going Back by Lisa Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
During a routine family holiday to her husband's homeland of Turkey, Lisa Kennedy was suddenly told their marriage was over. Her husband took their six-month-old baby from her care and instructed her to go home to Australia, alone - beginning four years of hell in Istanbul as she fought the case through ...Show more
Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands by Aatish Taseer
$34.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
What does it mean to be a young Muslim in the twenty-first century?When Aatish Taseer receives a challenging letter from his estranged father in Pakistan, he decides to set off on an expedition across the Islamic world in search of his own Islamic heritage, as well as to discover how other young people ...Show more
Still Lucky: Why you should feel optomistic about Australia and its people by Rebecca Huntley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
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