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The Lord of the Rings (Deluxe illustrated edition)

J. R. R. Tolkien

Sumptuous slipcased edition of Tolkien’s classic epic tale of adventure, fully illustrated in colour for the first time by the author himself. This deluxe volume is quarterbound in leather and…

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Beyond the Hero’s Journey

Anthony Mullins

Telling a story is simple, right? You take a ‘hero’ character and send them on a ‘journey’. There’s a beginning, middle and an end. But what if your story doesn’t…

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A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life

Jacqueline Kent

Originally published to great acclaim in 2001, A Certain Style introduced Beatrice Davis to thousands of readers and told a history of books and publishing in twentieth-century Australia. This reissue…

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The Women of Troy: A Novel

Pat Barker

A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it.

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Bruce Rickard: A Life in Architecture

Bruce Rickard was one of the most significant Australian architects of the twentieth century. A key member of the Sydney School, his practice spanned 60 years and he produced some…

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Colony: Australia 1770-1861/Frontier Wars

Cathy Leahy, Judith Ryan, Dr Isobel Crombie, Megan Patty

This is an essential exploration of Australia’s complex colonial mindset: from the tragedies of a contested beginning to the conversations that allow us now to contemplate a better future.

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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Jared Diamond

From the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse comes a brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don’t.

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Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)

David Sedaris

David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making.

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Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories

A.S. Byatt

A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A.S. Byatt

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Whereabouts: A Novel

Jhumpa Lahiri

A marvelous novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between…

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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

Rebecca Solnit

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent

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Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart

The brilliant new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain

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The Origins of Creativity

Edward O. Wilson

An eloquent exploration of creativity, The Origins of Creativity grapples with the question of how this uniquely human expression - so central to our identity as individuals and, collectively, as…

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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention

Ben Wilson

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind’s greatest invention: the city.

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Feel Free: Essays

Zadie Smith

From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays.

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Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life

Diarmaid MacCulloch

The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII’s bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell’s role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn

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Europe’s Babylon

Michael Pye

A revelatory history of Antwerp–from its rise to a world city to its fall in the Spanish Fury–by the New York Times Notable author of The Edge of the World…

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The Education of Young Donald Trilogy

Donald Horne

A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne’s three autobiographies in one volume.

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The Middle East and Islamic World Reader: An Historical Reader for the 21st Century

The Muslim world is rich and diverse, yet few Westerners are familiar with the writings and teachings of a culture that is at the forefront of world events. This title…

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Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Arundhati Roy

With anger and compassion, Roy exposes the sordid underbelly and dark inhumanity of capitalism in India and around the globe.

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Radicals: Remembering the Sixties

Meredith Burgmann, Nadia Wheatley

In Radicals: Remembering the Sixties some of the people doing the changing reflect on how the decade changed them and Australian society forever. It will make you feel like you…

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Calypso

David Sedaris

Personal essays share the author’s adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.

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Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

Alexander Wolff

A portrait of a Jewish German family divided by exile, abandonment and emigration.

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Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

Fawaz A. Gerges

Based on a decade of research, including in-depth interviews with many leading figures in the story, this edition is essential for anyone who wants to understand the roots of the…

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The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One - and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.

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To Paradise

Hanya Yanagihara

From the author of the modern classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and…

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Spirit of the Garden

Trisha Dixon

Gardens can be formal or wild, serene or ostentatious, native or exotic, colourful or monochrome – according to Trisha Dixon, if we like a person, we will probably like their…

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August 1914: France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever

Bruno Cabanes

An intimate portrait of a nation in the grip of war

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The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book

Jerry Seinfeld

A celebration of and behind-the-scenes look at Jerry Seinfeld’s groundbreaking streaming series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Over eleven seasons and eighty-four episodes, Jerry Seinfeld drove around in classic cars…

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1939: A People’s History of the Coming of the Second World War

Frederick Taylor

A best-selling historian’s chronicle of the dramatic months from the Munich Agreement to Hitler’s invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II.

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Healing Through Words

Rupi Kaur

Number One Sunday Times bestselling author Rupi Kaur presents guided poetry writing exercises of her own design to help you explore themes of trauma, loss, heartache, love, family, healing and…

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Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man

Frances Peters-Little

In this first biography of the man and his music, Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man tells the incredible story of one of Australia's most acclaimed Aboriginal pop and country…

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Stella Maris

Cormac McCarthy

One of America’s greatest living writers, now eighty-eight, returns with a book - a pair of books, a masterpiece of a duet - a decade in the making.

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The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy

One of America’s greatest living writers, now eighty-eight, returns with a book - a pair of books, together a masterpiece - a decade in the making.

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Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers

Emma Smith

An effervescent and excitingly revisionist history of bibliophilia, from a globally respected Shakespeare scholar

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What I Cook When Nobody’s Watching

Poh Ling Yeow

National treasure Poh Ling Yeow invites you into her colourful world to share simple recipes, musings and more.

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Tenderheart

Hetty Lui McKinnon

180 new, inspired and always delicious recipes will change how you see the humble vegetable and what it is capable of, forever.

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Homegrown

Paul West

Join River Cottage Australia host Paul West in his garden and kitchen as he shows you how to become that little bit more self-sufficient.

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A Cook’s Book

Nigel Slater

A Cook’s Book is the story of Nigel Slater’s life in the kitchen.

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Bush Dance: A Treasury of Stories

Sally Morgan

In this collection of four vibrant books, Sally Morgan celebrates Australian animals and the habitats in which they live.

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Take One Fish: The New School of Scale-to-Tail Cooking and Eating

Josh Niland

Forget everything you thought you knew about fish cookery.

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All Day Baking: Savoury, Not Sweet

Michael James, Pippa James

A savoury-focused baking cookbook with an emphasis on wholegrains and seasonally-led ingredients from a UK-trained chef who is one of Australia’s best-regarded bakers.

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