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  • Farming Life
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    Farming Life

    Making a living on the land in Australia can be tough at the best of times, but the last few years of seemingly endless droughts, floods and bushfires - not to mention a global pandemic - have made...
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  • Labrador Life Labrador Life
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    Labrador Life

    Celebrate every fabulous trait of the labrador retriever with this heartwarmingly illustrated book filled with breed info and tips for pet parents. Black, chocolate, or yellow, the labrador...
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  • Trauma Industrial Complex
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    Trauma Industrial Complex

    An eye-opening critique of the trauma industry from Orwell Prize-winning author Darren McGarvey, revealing the unexpected consequences of sharing his story and outlining the need for systemic change...
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  • Open, Heaven
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    Open, Heaven

    When James meets Luke, everything changes: an exhilarating tale of hidden desire and sudden freedom in the wild countryside. On the cusp of adulthood, James dreams of another life far away from his...
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  • Book Forger
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    Book Forger

    A true detective story from the age of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers: the literary crime that fooled the world - and the daring young booksellers who uncovered it 'A page-turner about...
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  • Poyums Annaw
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    Poyums Annaw

    There isn't a timescale for how you should heal Your bad days are valid, your heartache is real But so is the day that your smile will return That fire within you continues to burn You will...
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  • Not Just Scholars but Leaders
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    Not Just Scholars but Leaders

    Success stories of the Indigenous researchers who forged new paths in Indigenous health and wellbeing through an NHMRC grant In 2005 a team of researchers in Indigenous health, led by Professors...
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  • Cinnamon
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    Cinnamon

    The sweeping cultural history of a spice so coveted it launched empires across oceans, reshaped global trade, and bound generations of Sri Lankan peelers to colonial rule. For millennia, cinnamon...
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  • End of Reality
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    End of Reality

    A withering takedown of four billionaires (from Andreessen to Zuckerberg) who are selling us fantasies while the world burns. At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic...
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  • Road to Freedom
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    Road to Freedom

    A major reappraisal, by the Nobel prize-winning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the...
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  • Destroyer of Worlds
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    Destroyer of Worlds

    The full history of the development of nuclear power and the extraordinary minds behind it Henry Becquerel's accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate sparked...
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  • A Paradise Built in Hell
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    A Paradise Built in Hell

    How do we respond to disaster? What expressions of care and solidarity might we find among the debris? A Paradise Built in Hell is a study of five major disasters - the 1906 San Francisco earthquake,...
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  • History of Ideas
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    History of Ideas

    * THE TIMES BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024 * 'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' - The Times 'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to illuminate...
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  • Treading Lightly
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    Treading Lightly

    We are consuming more than our earth can provide. In Australia, cities and towns struggle to maintain a reliable water supply, climate change triggers droughts which devastate farmland, and fish...
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  • Liveable Future is Possible
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    Liveable Future is Possible

    A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time In this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares...
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  • Turtle Island and the Tradition of Giants
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    Turtle Island and the Tradition of Giants

    The story of giants in the Indigenous prehistory of the Americas • Covers the secret history of an ancient race of giants that inhabited the Americas long before European contact • Presents...
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  • Dead and Alive
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    Dead and Alive

    An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith In this keenly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her...
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  • Vessel
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    Vessel

    A new contribution to literature that grapples with grief, death and the shape of what's left behind. Who would think to call Ophelia a corpse? She is but a woman emptied of herself. In 1993, when...
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  • Midwife's Tale
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    Midwife's Tale

    Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the...
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  • Expectation
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    Expectation

    'The MOST BUZZED-ABOUT, ADDICTIVE read' STYLIST An edgy, emotionally confronting, contemporary novel of friendship, sex, desire, motherhood and feminism. THE MUST-READ SUMMER 2020 RICHARD AND JUDY...
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  • Prince
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    Prince

    Sharpen your leadership skills with this display-worthy edition of The Prince-an enduring roadmap to political power. Written during the Italian Renaissance, Niccoló Machiavelli's astute...
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  • Trad Wife
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    Trad Wife

    A 'traditional wife' influencer allows a strange being to impregnate her in this unnerving horror novel, perfect for fans of My Best Friend's Exorcism and Head Full of Ghosts Every #tradwife needs a...
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  • By the Sea
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    By the Sea

    On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession -...
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  • Echidna Strategy
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    Echidna Strategy

    In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself? The Echidna Strategy overturns the conventional wisdom about Australia's security. Australia will need to...
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  • Clean
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    Clean

    A witty scientific investigation that reveals how excessive soap and washing harm our health, now with a new afterword. Did you know that excessive use of soap and skin-care products is harming our...
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  • Luna Park
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    Luna Park

    Shortlisted, 2026 National Trust (NSW) Heritage Awards Highly Commended, 2026 NSW History Awards Community and Regional History Prize 'All the thrills, spills and tragedy behind that iconic grin,...
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  • Australian Ingredients Kitchen Australian Ingredients Kitchen
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    Australian Ingredients Kitchen

    Many Australians are still unfamiliar with native foods such as wattleseed and lemon myrtle, while international New Age superfoods like goji berries and acai are all the rage. In this accessible...
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  • Picnic
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    Picnic

    Winner of the Orwell Prize 2024: the exhilarating story of the greatest border breach in Cold War history A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the...
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  • Girlhood
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    Girlhood

    National Bestseller In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from...
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  • Optimism Over Despair
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    Optimism Over Despair

    A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow -- from the greatest public intellectual of our times We have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help...
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  • Ungrounding
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    Ungrounding

    A devastating, meticulous account of the history of Israel's destruction of Gaza from an acclaimed architect and investigator Eyal Weizman is one of the world's leading experts on the relationship...
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  • Rigged
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    Rigged

    'This book will open your eyes to how Australia really works. It's not good news, but you need to know it.' - Ross Gittins 'You'll be shocked at how far the Mates have their hand in your pocket.' -...
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  • Pain and Prejudice
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    Pain and Prejudice

    'Women are in pain, all through their bodies; they're in pain with their periods, and while having sex; they have pelvic pain, migraine, headaches, joint aches, painful bladders, irritable bowels,...
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  • Lost at Sea
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    Lost at Sea

    "If deterrence fails - and war erupts - how does Australia intend to use its nuclear-powered submarines? They might expand Australia's choices, but they might also entrench it in operations Canberra...
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  • Tokyo Rising
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    Tokyo Rising

    Tokyo Rising explores Japan's historic strategic shift and the implications for the balance of power in Asia and Australia's future security. "The idea that provides much of the rationale for an...
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  • In The Dark
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    In The Dark

    The thrilling international bestseller by 'China's answer to John le Carre' (Financial Times) Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at 'Unit 701', China's secret services, operate in a dark,...
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  • Wicked Roots
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    Wicked Roots

    Journey through haunted woodlands and cursed clearings to uncover tales of the strange and magical plants that don't simply live or die...they lurk. From ancient myths to old wives' tales, Wicked...
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    Life You Want

    From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on how to achieve the lives we want Where do we get ideas about the lives we want? And, what do we do - and fail to do - about actually...
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  • Blind Spot
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    Blind Spot

    A gripping and counterintuitive new account of oligarchy from 'the most astute social scientist studying the phenomenon today' (Guardian), which reveals how and why it has come to thrive in...
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  • Making Numbers Count
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    Making Numbers Count

    New in Penguin paperback, Making Numbers Count offers quick, simple and practical hacks to understand and communicate numbers at all scales, from bestselling author Chip Heath. Until very recently,...
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  • Slavic Myths
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    Slavic Myths

    A Pulitzer-nominated author and one of the great public intellectuals of Slavic culture bring to life the unfamiliar myths and legends of the Slavic world. Slavic cultures are far-ranging,...
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  • I Am Clarence
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    I Am Clarence

    A haunting novel exploring a mother's fierce love for her disabled son as she grapples with her own mental health, by the author of the feminist cult classic The Princess of 72nd Street For...
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  • Soviet Bus Stops Volume II
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    Soviet Bus Stops Volume II

    A follow-up to the hugely successful Soviet Bus Stops, with new photographs of bus stops in Russia, Crimea, Georgia and Ukraine.Christopher Herwig has an insatiable appetite for 'Soviet Bus Stops'...
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  • Eights
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    Eights

    They knew they were changing history. They didn't know they would change each other. Following the unlikely friendship of four of the first ever women to study at Oxford University: a captivating...
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  • This Too Shall Pass
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    This Too Shall Pass

    A leading therapist shares memorable patient stories to explore the key crises in life and what we can learn from them. In this Sunday Times bestseller, acclaimed psychotherapist Julia Samuel draws...
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  • Little Devil in America
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    Little Devil in America

    A celebration of Black culture beyond the white gaze, from the \"MacArthur genius\" who has been dubbed 'the most important cultural critic in America right now' Chicago Tribune At the March on...
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