Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Thus Bad Begins, prize-winning author Javier Marias examines a household living in the unhappy shadow of history, and explores the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love. As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Eduardo Muriel is a famous fil ...Show more
Styling Nature: A Masterful Approach to Floral Arrangements by Lewis Miller; Don Freeman (Photographer); Nina Garcia (Foreword by)
85.00 AUD
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
Renowned New York-based floral designer Lewis Miller presents a fresh take on the arrangement and display of flowers--discussing the approach to and the inspiration behind his lavish creations. Lewis Miller's first book features lush, naturally lit still lifes of his beautiful arrangements and compositi ...Show more
Clive James Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015 by Clive James
49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Clive James's reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty, such as 'Japanese Maple' (first published in the New Yorker in 2014), became global news events upon their publication. His most ...Show more
The Last Days of Ava Langdon by Mark O'Flynn
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Ava Langdon is often not herself. Having fled her early life in New Zealand and endured the loss of her children, she now lives as a recluse in the Blue Mountains. Regarded by locals as a colourful eccentric, she dresses in men's clothes and fearlessly pursues her artistic path. All that matters to Ava ...Show more
TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris Anderson
32.99 AUD
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
In Ted Talks Chris Anderson, head of TED, reveals the inside secrets of how to give a first-class presentation. Where books like Talk Like TED and TED Talks Storytelling whetted the appetite, here is the official TED guide to public speaking from the man who put TED talks on the world's stage. 'Nobody i ...Show more
Givaudan: An Odyssey of Perfumes and Flavors by Annick Le Guérer
90.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
For 250 years, Givaudan has created perfumes and flavours of the highest quality, innovating and inspiring trends in scent and taste. Dior, Saint Laurent, and Prada turned to Givaudan to create J'adore, Opium, Infusion d'iris, and more. With the best chefs, Givaudan has created new tastes from the fines ...Show more
The 50 Greatest Walks of the World by Barry Stone
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: The 50 | Reading Level: very good
Barry Stone, author of 1,001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die, delves into some of the lesser-known aspects of the world's most famous -- and not-quite-famous-yet -- trails. The perfect accompaniment to practical guidebooks, Stone relates how slings and carabiners kept him from falling headlong ...Show more
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her childhood playing in her father's laborato ...Show more
Zero K by Don DeLillo
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and ne ...Show more
Beyond Belief by Hugh Mackay
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
What do people actually mean when they say 'God'?Around two-thirds of us say we believe in God or some 'higher power', but fewer than one in ten Australians attend church weekly. In Beyond Belief, Hugh Mackay presents this discrepancy as one of the great unexamined topics of our time. He argues that whi ...Show more
Paul Smith's Cycling Scrapbook by Paul Smith
60.00 AUD
Category: Sport
This lively 'scrapbook' seeks to illustrate Paul Smith's favourite people, races and places in the cycling world through the romantic and beautiful images and places that inspired him. From his collection of cycling jerseys and his extensive library of cycling publications and brochures of the 1950s and ...Show more
A Japanese Constellation - Toyo Ito, Sanaa, and Beyond by Pedro Gadanho
80.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, A Japanese Constellation focuses on the work of a small group of architects and designers influenced by and gravitating around the architect Toyo Ito and the architectural firm SANAA. Beginning with an overview of Ito's career and ...Show more