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Brolliology: A History of the Umbrella in Life and Literature by Marion Rankine
$29.95 AUD
Category: Reference
Humans have been making, using, perfecting, and decorating umbrellas for millennia - holding them over the heads of rulers, signalling class distinctions, and exploring their full imaginative potential in folk tales and novels. In the spirit of the best literary gift books, Brolliology is a beautifully ...Show more
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literature
From the author of the critically acclaimed and globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a stunning new work. The Madman's Library is a unique, beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of literature, delving into its darkest territories to hunt do ...Show more
Gifts of Reading by Jennie Orchard (Curated by); Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; William Boyd; Candice Carty-Williams; Chigozie Obioma; Philip Pullman; Imtiaz Dharker; Roddy Doyle; Pico Iyer; Andy Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection.In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayists ...Show more
The Wolf Hall Companion by Lauren MacKay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
An accessible but hugely authoritative companion to the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel. What is the true story behind the blockbuster Wolf Hall trilogy--and of Thomas Cromwell, its principal protagonist? This companion guide concisely illuminates both Cromwell's life and Tudor history, c ...Show more
Word Perfect: Curious Coinages and Etymological First Aid For Every Day of the Year by Susie Dent
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Susie Dent is a one-off. She breathes life and fun into words and language' Pam Ayres 'Susie Dent is a national treasure' Richard Osman Welcome to a year of wonder through the English language with Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner. From Turning a Blind ...Show more
Ex Libris: 100 Books for Everyone's Bookshelf by Michiko Kakutani
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From 'the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world' (Vanity Fair) comes an inspiring and beautifully illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss 'Why do we love books so much?' For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books have always been an esca ...Show more
Media Madness by Howard Kurtz
$39.99 AUD
Category: Reference
"The mainstream media's obsessive hatred for President Trump outruns his anti-media fixation by a country mile, argues this evenhanded and incisive study of press relations with the Trump administration." -Publishers Weekly "'Defiance Disorder' Another new book describes chaos in Trump's White House"- ...Show more
Searching for Charlotte: The Fascinating Story of Australia's First Children's Author (Charlotte Waring Atkinson) by Kate Forsyth; Belinda Murrell
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literature
In Searching for Charlotte, Forsyth and Murrell tell Charlotte's story along with that of their own journey to discover her. In an intriguing account, the sisters join the reader in reacting to Charlotte's actions: wondering what could have motivated certain choices; admiring the strength of spirit that ...Show more
All the Tiny Moments Blazing - A Literary Guide to Suburban London by Ged Pope
$54.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The London suburbs have, for more than two hundred and fifty years, fired the creative literary imagination: whether this is Samuel Johnson hiding away in bucolic preindustrial Streatham, Italo Svevo cheering on Charlton Athletic Football Club down at The Valley, or Angela Carter hymning the joyful "wro ...Show more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refug ...Show more
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
$14.99 AUD
Category: Reference
A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. It does take all kinds. If you visit bookshops more often than the grocery store, you'll recognize the types. ...Show more
Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books by Cathy Rentzenbrink
$32.99 AUD
Category: Reference
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love.'Reading has saved my life, again and again, and has held my hand through every difficult time' For as long as she can remember, Cathy Rentzenbrink has lost and found herself in stories. Growing up she was rarely seen without her nose in ...Show more