Rainforest by Lewis Blackwell
$19.95 AUD
Category: REM Photography
There are no places on earth more mysterious and complex than tropical rainforests. These wonders of biodiversity cover just six percent of the earth's surface, yet are home to over half of all identified animal and plant species and contain one fourth of the world's fresh water. Famed biologist E.O. Wi ...Show more
River Cottage Every Day by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
$16.95 AUD
Category: REM Cooking
Putting food on the table for the family quickly and economically doesn't mean you have to compromise on quality. This book shows how Hugh's approach to food can be adapted to suit any growing, working family, or busy young singles and couples for that matter. Breakfast, baking, lunchboxes, quick supper ...Show more
How About Never - Is Never Good for You? by Bob Mankoff
$10.00 AUD
Category: REM Humour | Reading Level: near fine
People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best ...Show more
Ostend - Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark by Volker Weidermann
$12.95 AUD
Category: REM History | Reading Level: very good
It s the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austria searched by the police two years earlier no longer feels like home. He s been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town that is a paradise of ...Show more
The Early Stories of Truman Capote by Hilton (FRW) Truman; Als Capote
$12.95 AUD
Category: REM Fiction
The early fiction of one of the nation's most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his t ...Show more
The Pope and Mussolini : The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer
$13.95 AUD
$53.95 (74% off)
Category: REM History | Reading Level: General Adult
Madagaskar Plan by SAVILLE GUY
$16.95 AUD
Category: REM Fiction
A brilliant "what if" novel of the years after WW2 for fans of SS-GB and The Man in the High Castle. 1953. Britain and her Empire are diminished. Nazi Germany controls Europe and a vast African territory. There has been no Holocaust. Instead, the Jews have been exiled to Madagaskar, a tropical ghetto ru ...Show more
CITIES OF EMPIRE THE BRITISH COLONIES AND THE CREATION OF THE URBAN WORLD by HUNT TRISTRAM
$16.95 AUD
Category: REM History
An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wakeAt its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand as the econo ...Show more
The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey Through Human History by Susanna Forrest
$16.95 AUD
Category: REM History
Anthropologist and equestrian expert Susanna Forrest presents a singular, sweeping panorama of the horse's prominent role across time and in societies around the world. Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth-and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Age, it ...Show more
The Great Unknown - Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science by Marcus du Sautoy
$12.99 AUD
Category: REM Science
"An engaging voyage into some of the great mysteries and wonders of our world. --Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dream and The Accidental Universe "No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting." --Bill Bryson Brain Pickings and Kirkus Best Science Book of the YearEvery week ...Show more
The Fleurville Trilogy (Sophie's Misfortunes, Camille & Madeleine, The Holidays) by Comtesse De Segur
$12.95 AUD
Category: REM Middle Fiction | Series: Fleurville Trilogy
These three hugely successful, humorous French classics - Sophie's Misfortunes, Camille and Madeleine and The Holidays - are now available in one volume. Sophie's Misfortunes: Sophie is a naughty little girl who delights in disobeying her mother and engaging in mischievous pranks. Why can't she be as we ...Show more