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Paul Baker
By the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how this inescapable part of popular culture has also…
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Jonathan Drori, Lucille Clerc (illus.)
Traditional Chinese edition of Around the World in 80 Plants
Craig Horne
Line of Blood: The Truth of Alfred Howitt tells the full story of Australia's so-called 'ablest anthropologist'; the botanist, geologist, senior public servant and explorer Alfred Howitt - and ancestor…
Rachel Cargle
A memoir meets manifesto on reimagining solidarity and self through knowledge, empathy and action
Theresa MacPhail
An eye-opening investigation-combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science-into allergies and their stunning rise in recent decades
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Victor Cha, Ramon Pacheco Pardo
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day
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Kristen Ghodsee
The pandemic revealed that our lives are propped up by women’s unpaid work in the home. Everyday Utopia argues that the ‘traditional’ nuclear family of father, mother and child is…
Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
A paleontological tour de force on the super-predator of the prehistoric marine world, the great shark megalodon.
Julia Ebner
The internationally bestselling author of Going Dark returns to explore why radical ideas are increasingly infiltrating politics, popular culture and our everyday lives.
Jesse Fink
Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts…
Chris Cincotta
'On January 1st 2022, I decided that I would embark on my biggest project ever. I would take a photo each day of 2022 in Melbourne/Victoria. I only knew one…
Quinn Slobodian
An acclaimed historian of ideas shows how capitalist extremists profit from the collapse of the democratic nation
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Walter Marsh
For half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarising patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all…
Greg French
A lively collection of stories centred around a highland wilderness, which portrays bushwalking and backcountry fishing as a way of life, and historic bush huts as social fabric.
Graeme Turner
How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.
Isabel Kershner
A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people at a critical juncture in their country’s history.
Niki Segnit
The Flavour Thesaurus - More Flavours examines 92 original flavours and is an indispensable cook's resource.
Meg Daley (ed.)
An anthology about the power of teachers and their capacity to shape lives, edited by award-winning teacher-librarian Megan Daley of Children's Book Daily and the Your Kid's Next Read podcast
Emmett Stinson
A window into the writing of one of Australia's most important contemporary authors, Gerald Murnane
Erin Riley
An exhilarating, thought-provoking and joyful debut that asks how we create our identities and how we can transcend them.
Michael Adams
How the New South Wales Police Force's finest solved murders in one of the most tumultuous periods in Australian history
Lauren Elkin
A landmark feminist intervention - a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.
Ben Ansell
Everybody wants breathable air, a healthy population, civil and consensual politics. We want a peaceful world, a stable economy. We’ve always wanted these things. The fundamental point of politics is…
Tom Holland
The third in the epic trilogy narrating the history of the Roman Empire from renowned historian Tom Holland
Kate Flood
Spin food waste and household carbon into garden gold, learn about how and why soil matters, and make climate activism an everyday mission, with compost coach Kate Flood.
M. John Harrison
One of our greatest and most original living writers sets out the perils of the writing life with joyful provocation
Katherine Pangonis
A dazzling new history of the Mediterranean telling the interweaving stories of five forgotten ancient cities.
Megan Davis, George Williams
In late 2023 Australians will vote in a referendum on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to parliament in the Constitution. What benefits will the Voice bring? And what was the journey…
Mikey Robins
The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one…
Timothy Morton
A poetic journey through the key objects that have shaped the author's life and philosophies.
Nigel Townson
A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first, drawing on a wealth of Spanish-led historical scholarship never before seen in English
Malcolm Harris
The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.
Christian Madsbjerg
A powerful exploration of how we pay attention that will transform the ways we connect with one another – at home, at work, and beyond.
Jonathan Pearlman
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia's evolving ties with the United States as the power balance in Asia changes and as Washington continues to face bitter domestic…
Bruce Wolpe
Trump (or a Trumpist) could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American democracy as we have known it will probably come to an end. Australia's…
Jeff Goodell
A searing examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and what we can do to stop it, by the author of The Water Will Come.
Ed Conway
Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium.
The struggle for these tiny, magical materials has razed empires, demolished civilizations, fed our greed and our ingenuity for thousands of years. But…
Jennifer Ackerman
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific exploration of owls, the most elusive group of birds, and…
Caitlin Moran
A frank, funny and galvanising exploration of masculinity, and a manifesto for male allyship, from million-copy bestseller and feminist powerhouse Caitlin Moran.
Carmel McKenzie
This is a fascinating work of St Kilda's development and human history
Colin Burgess
The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three…
Megan Davis
Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a ‘constitutional moment’ that offers a new vision of Australia
Jill Griffiths
The plants, animals and farmers that feed us and what our choices mean for them and the planet.
Owen Wright
The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia's finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal.
Marcia Langton
The definitive book that introduces readers from all backgrounds to First Nations histories and cultures.
Kapka Kassabova
Elixir is a journey in search of a cure, a journey shaped by one river and three mountains. Kapka Kassabova takes us to the valley of the Mesta river, where…
Sarah Percy
From the Amazons to the Ukraine conflict, women have always been on the front line of war: this is their surprising and heroic history.
Sam Twyford-Moore
Cast Mates is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the ages.
