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Discover new nonfiction books at Readings, with biography, memoir, essays and analysis.
Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns. This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking…
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Nedd Brockmann
Live large, do tough stuff and give back.
Alan Kohler
Australia's most trusted financial journalist on Australia's housing crisis.
Jan Brokken, David Doherty (trans.)
A monumental journey through Baltic history and culture, in which we encounter well-known personalities and forgotten ones, and a disconcerting picture of Europe in the twentieth century.
Lee Atkinson
A guide to the best driving holidays around the world, with detailed itineraries and route descriptions complemented by beautiful photography and handy maps.
Michael Palin
The fourth volume of Michael Palin's bestselling diaries
Alain Corbin
Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by…
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Cassie Gilmartin, Shaun Gilmartin
The definitive guide to researching family history in Australia.
Megan Hess
A stunning new large-format fashion book from Megan Hess, celebrating the intersecting stories of fashion and colour.
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Iola Mathews
A fascinating biography of one of Australia's most respected and well-regarded politicians.
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Amber Creswell Bell
From the Australian Book Industry-Award winning author of Australian Abstract.
Harry Cliff
Newly discovered strangenesses could transform our understanding of the fundamentals of physics – and of the nature of reality. In this eye-opening account, CERN experimental physicist Harry Cliff takes the…
Cameron Daddo
Cameron Daddo is curious about confidence. In this book, he weaves together stories from his own life with those of extraordinary Australians to show us how we nurture it, how…
Jane Gazzo
I Hear Motion is a celebration of the Aussie bands we loved: Models, Machinations, Wa Wa Nee, Real Life, Kids in the Kitchen, Do-Re-Mi, Koo De Tah, Eurogliders, Boom Crash…
Amir Tibon
The gripping, true story of how leading Israeli journalist Amir Tibon, along with his wife and their two young children, were rescued on 7 October 2023 by Tibon's father -…
Colin Golvan
Discover how copyright law is empowering Indigenous creatives
Kathy Willis
Good Nature is a groundbreaking exploration that reveals how, if we bring nature more into our lives, it can help improve our health and well-being in so many unexpected ways.
Paul Bangay, Simon Griffiths (photog.)
A garden that cannot be seen in one glance entices people to step outside with a sense of wonder. Landscape designer Paul Bangay has an extraordinary ability to envisage scale…
Rick Stein
Accompanying a major new BBC primetime series, Rick Stein celebrates the best of British food with over 100 diverse, exciting and easy new recipes.
Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products
Sonia Purnell
An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance
Jamie Tahsin, Matt Shea
The behind-the-scenes story of a four-year investigation into Andrew Tate, exploring how a failed reality TV star turned accused organised criminal managed to become one of the most famous influencers…
Anthony Sharwood
Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko…
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Amanda Laugesen
Captivating and quirky, Australia in 100 Words takes readers chronologically through Australian history to tell a unique story through language
Geena Rocero
The dazzling, heartfelt memoir of a trans pageant queen from the Philippines who went back into the closet to model in New York City-until she realized that living her truth…
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John Silvester
From madmen to matriarchs, stooges to heroes, eye-watering bungles to sweet justice - strap yourself in for a masterclass in storytelling from Australia's most formidable crime reporter.
Catherine Fletcher
Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one of the most important imperial networks ever built
Samah Sabawi
The story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland.
Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
Rising star New York Times investigative tech reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk's unprecedented hostile takeover…
Yuval Noah Harari
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world
Steve Tibble
A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land
Hillary Rodham Clinton
What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and…
Susan Owens
The Story of Drawing loops around the established history of art, sometimes staying close, at other times diving into exhilarating and altogether less familiar territory.
Weston Bate, Richard Broome, Nicole Davis, Andrew J. May, Helen Stitt
A history of Melbourne's lanes over 180 years from their creation in the 1840s until 2024.
Myles Dungan
Land Is All that Matters is a sweeping, immersive story that captures both the human experience and the global relationships at the heart of Irish history.
Ben Macintyre
Britain's best-selling historian writes the first definitive account of the famous televised SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980
John Long
From ancient megalodons to fearsome Great Whites, this book tells the complete, untold story of how sharks emerged as Earth's ultimate survivors, by world-leading paleontologist John Long.
Eugene Rogan
The dramatic history of a massacre in Damascus, and the collapse of the old Ottoman world order
Don Watson
Don Watson offers a report from the United States that catches the madness and theatre of an election like no other.
Darren Rix, Craig Cormick
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans.
Gillian Anderson
What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you want, when you are anonymous?
When we talk about…
Markus Zusak
What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs? The answer can only be chaos
Serhii Plokhy
The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war
Kelly Clancy
A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress
We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and…
Jason Chongue
An inspiring, practical handbook with easy-to-follow blueprints for curating greener spaces, big and small, indoors and out.
Hector Garcia, Francesc Miralles
Why Indian spirituality holds the key to a life of true fulfilment - the new book from the multi-million-copy bestselling authors of Ikigai
Tim Minchin
Charlie Mackesy meets Kurt Vonnegut, in the first non-fiction book from Tim Minchin
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Oliver Burkeman
From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week journey to embracing your limitations, thriving in an age of bewilderment, and finally making…
