Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa by Kevin Richardson
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Kevin Richardson has been dubbed 'The Lion Whisperer'. As a zoologist and animal behaviourist, he works at a lion park in South Africa. Here he has formed incredible relationships with the big cats - playing with them, lying down with them, being included in every part of their lives as 'one of the prid ...Show more
Women Who Light the Dark by Paola Gianturco (By (photographer)); Kavita Ramdas (Foreword by)
$12.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Across the world, local women are helping one another tackle the problems that darken their lives-domestic violence, sex trafficking, war, poverty, illiteracy, discrimination, inequality, malnutrition, disease. These women may lack material resources, but they possess a wealth of an even more precious r ...Show more
Snowing in Bali by Kathryn Bonella
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
It's snowing in Bali. Among Bali's drug dealers it's the code for a huge cocaine shipment having just landed. For the men who run the country's drug empires, it's time to get rich and party hard. Snowing in Bali is the story of the drug trafficking and dealing scene that's made Bali one of the world's m ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
$6.50 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more th ...Show more
QF32: From the author of Fly!: Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 by Richard de Crespigny
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
QF32 is the award winning bestseller from Richard de Crespigny, author of the forthcoming Fly!: Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 On 4 November 2010, a flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife edge of being one of the world's worst air disasters. Shortly after leaving Changi Airport, an e ...Show more
The Moronic Inferno by Martin Amis
$6.50 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion makers, leaders and crackpots with character ...Show more
Humankind - A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford'Made me see h ...Show more
How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Passionate, independent-minded non-fiction from the international bestselling author of The Corrections. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing every ...Show more
A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
$12.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
"Subramanian writes with empathy and exuberance, offering a much-needed glimpse into a world that too many of us don't even know exists. This is a book to give your little sister, your mother, your best friend, yourself, so together you can celebrate the strength of women and girls, the tenacity it take ...Show more