The Pulling by Adele Dumont
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When I've been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the air, and then the oats turn black and crackle with dryness, and my ears fill with the smoke alarm's shriek. When Adele Dumont is diagnosed with trichotillomania - compulsive hair-pulling - it makes sense of ...Show more
Table for Two: Recipes for the Ones You Love by Bre Graham
42.99 AUD
Category: Cooking
Recipes, menus, and tablescapes to delight your lover, best friend, sister, mother, or brother - this book will become a reference cookbook for a generation that loves to entertain at home Whether it's your Mum, your best friend, or your significant other, sweep the person you love off their feet with ...Show more
The Golden Mole, And other living treasure by Katherine Rundell
34.99 AUD
Category: Animals
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals - a treasure trove of vanishing wonders. A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip.A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That's far enough to ...Show more
Everybody by Olivia Laing
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the ...Show more
Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of Unsettled Minds by Rachel Aviv
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
We place a great deal of trust in the medical system. But does a mental health diagnosis have the power to perpetuate, or even create, symptoms as its subject adapts to live within it? Is there another way of talking about their experience? And are patients being truly heard? In an attempt to answer t ...Show more
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Vicarious
THE SUNDAY TIMES' BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE This is a book about abandoned places: ghost to ...Show more
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning by Justin E. H. Smith
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it — and explains why they have died today.Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What Yo ...Show more
A Cook's Book - The Essential Nigel Slater by Nigel Slater
55.00 AUD
Category: Cooking
A Cook's Book is the story of Nigel Slater's life in the kitchen . . . . . . from the first jam tart Nigel made with his mum standing on a chair trying to reach the AGA, through to what he is cooking now. He writes about how his cooking has changed from discovering the trick to whipping cream perfectly, ...Show more
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nat ...Show more
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Biography | Series: Seventeen Brushes with Death
AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018* I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extr ...Show more
84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
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Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
26.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence--from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom"This study argues that [artificial intelligence] is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . . . A fascinating history of the data on which machine-learning systems are trained."--Ne ...Show more