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
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
Return to Moscow by Tony Kevin
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Forty-eight years ago, a young and apprehensive Tony Kevin set off with his family on his first diplomatic posting, to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. In the Russian winter of 2016 he returns alone, a private citizen, aged 73. What will he find? How has Russia changed since those grim Soviet days? ...Show more
Escape by Jessop Carolyn with Laura Palmer
$6.50 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part Carolyn's heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalis ...Show more
Second Suns by David Oliver Relin
$9.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world's most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project. Tabin was the high-achie ...Show more
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
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
$7.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
"Cod" spans a thousand years and four continents. From the Vikings, who pursued the codfish across the Atlantic, and the enigmatic Basques, who first commercialized it in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, and Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in t ...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