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Craig Foster, Ross Frylinck
From the creators of the Academy Award-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher, featuring an introduction by Jane Goodall. An immersive journey into the underwater world that holds transformative lessons for…
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Caroline Clements, Dillon Seitchik-Reardon
This beautiful photographic and curated travel guide celebrates Australia’s long-standing connection to water
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David Attenborough
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the…
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Eric Barker
From the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree comes a cure-all for our increasing emotional distance and loneliness–a … guide to help build better…
David Marr
David Marr is the rarest of breeds: one of Australia’s most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr’s hands, those…
Shaun Micallef
From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV’s news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself - an insightful and funny memoir about comedy and life that takes us…
Richard Weatherly
A luxurious volume celebrating the exquisite artworks and incredible life of one of the world’s finest bird painters.
Les Murray
Les Murray’s new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art.
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Jon Faine
A humorous and quintessentially Australian story, from broadcaster Jon Faine, a trusted and respected observer of Australian life
Alistair Campbell
A stunning collection from the archive of Australia’s greatest storyteller, Banjo Paterson.
Notebooks, illustrations, photographs, letters and transcripts of some of our best-loved songs, poems and stories have been brought…
Dobe Newton
The words and music of some of the best-loved Australian songs - with a rich selection of traditional songs of the Australian outback.
Don Watson
No other writer has journeyed further into the soul of Australia and returned to tell the tale…
Nick Rains
A revised and updated third edition of this bestselling Australian photography book.
Patrick Bishop
A grand tale of heroic failure during the Dieppe raid of 1942, grippingly told by the bestselling author of Bomber Boys
On the warm night of 18 August 1942, a…
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Michael Blencowe
Gone is a fascinating and timely illustrated narrative exploring the tales of eleven extraordinary extinct species from around the globe–sharing an enlightening story of extinction and conservation for today.
Tom Holland
A masterful history of Rome’s first imperial dynasty by the award-winning author of Rubicon, Persian Fire and In the Shadow of the Sword.
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Abigail Willis
Author of two popular London guide books
Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Extremes is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm’s personal vision of the twentieth century.
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Hobsbawm's classic history, repackaged as an Abacus History Great
Hobsbawm’s brilliant history, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History Great
The first volume of Hobsbawm's classic and universally acclaimed trilogy on the 19th century, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History Great
Jared Diamond
From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes the epic, visionary book, now in a revised edition with a new afterword, on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations – and…
David J. Chalmers
From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worlds
Jon Kabat-Zinn
In this work, Jon Kabat-Zinn maps out a simple path for cultivating mindfulness in our lives, and awakening us to the unique beauty and possibilities of each present moment. He…
Benjamin Moser
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most towering figures - her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face.
Jennifer Ackerman
Incredibly informative and beautifully written, The Genius of Birds richly celebrates the triumphs of these surprising and fiercely intelligent creatures.
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Anthony McGowan
Because man's best friend deserves to know the secrets of how to live a good life, too.
Joel Selvin,Pamela Turley
A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995
Philipp Blom (Author)
A sweeping and vibrant history of Europe and America during the inter-war years, by the acclaimed author of The Vertigo Years.
Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday
At once shocking, illuminating and inspiring, Human Nature: Planet Earth in Our Time asks: ‘What do we have?’, ‘What do we stand to lose?’ and ‘What must we change?’, or…
Walter Isaacson
A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein’s papers offers insight into how the iconic thinker’s mind worked as well as his contributions to science, in an account…
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Gerd Gigerenzer
The book deflates the hype about AI, offering instead a balanced view of what it can and cannot do, and shows how humans can more wisely use digital technology –
Joe Rollo
An insightful analysis of the architecture and design of Australia’s built environment.
Sophie Cunningham
In this bestselling book, Sophie Cunningham writes about what happened over the year that followed Black Saturday, the day that bushfires tore through the outskirts of Melbourne, shattering thousands of…
Thomas Harding
The story of the slave uprising that took place in the British colony of Demerara - now Guyana - in the Caribbean in 1823, and its momentous consequences.
Richard Fidler
Beloved ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague.
A revised and updated edition of the bestselling Full Catastrophe Living
Joseph Sassoon
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century’s preeminent commercial families and ‘the Rothschilds of the East’
A brilliant new account of the world’s very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC.
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David Wilkinson, Kimbal Baker (photog.)
This is a celebration of gardens new and old, small-scale and enormous - all grand in their horticultural ambitions and inspiration.
Richard Allen
Photographed across all four seasons, The Garden State showcases the finest private gardens of Victoria from all angles, highlighting the diversity of each region.
Adrian Wooldridge
The surprising history of an inspiring and sometimes dangerous idea
Meritocracy- the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much…
Peter Timms
From Hobart’s convict legacy, its spectacular natural setting, heritage architecture and climate, to crime rates, economic hardship and new developments, not to mention the game-changer that is MONA, Timms brings…
Lewis Blackwell
We are not alone: plants make up 80 per cent of the total biomass of Earth, while humans are only 0.0001 per cent.
Henry Reynolds
Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.‘ Australia lost 600…
Melinda Williams
Melinda Williams has recorded the lives of more than 100 of Australia’s most prominent artists, writers, sportspeople, scientists, and contributors. Some are household names and others, while less well known…
Terry O'Neill
A photographic portrait of Elton John, by iconic photographer Terry O'Neill.
Tom Nancollas
A sharply poignant history of British seafaring, from the Bronze Age to the present day
If Britain’s maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric…
