Our managing director Mark Rubbo picks out the best bargains for Father’s Day gift ideas.

To get him cooking…

$13.95 ()

Mietta’s Italian Family Recipes presents over 185 recipes, covering antipasto, soups, risotto, pasta, fish, meat, pizza and desserts. Together they demonstrate the ways in which original Italian recipes can be re-interpreted to suit modern Australian life, ingredients and equipment.

If he needs to watch that gut…

$13.95 ()

In the words of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall himself: ‘Eating more healthily isn’t about denial.’ In River Cottage Light & Easy, he demonstrates how to quickly and easily create nourishing, healthy and delicious meals.

If he saw (and won’t stop talking about) Dunkirk…

$17.95 ()

Lords of the Sky is a thrilling history of the fighter pilot. A 20-year USAF veteran who flew more than 150 combat missions and received four Distinguished Flying Crosses, Lt. Colonel Dan Hampton draws on his singular firsthand knowledge, as well as groundbreaking research in aviation archives and rare personal interviews with little-known heroes.

If he’s an aesthete…

$19.99 ()

Visually rich with fine reproductions and high-level production, The Photograph and Australia tells the many stories of photography in Australia over the last 175 years. It examines the sense of wonder which the photograph can still induce for its ability to capture both things of the world and those of the imagination.

If it’s about time he did something about the garden…

$19.99 ()

John Brookes is one of the most original and creative garden designers in the world. The Essentials of Garden Design is the summation of his philosophy – a supremely practical, easy-to-follow and inspiring workbook.

Neil Young + cars + dads = the perfect combination..?

$10 ()

Quirky and candid, Neil Young’s Special Deluxe is not your average rock biography. Young centres this book on one of his life’s passions – cars. By using the framework of all the cars he’s ever owned, he constructs a narrative of his life and career, exploring how memories are attached to objects.

For inspiring letters…

$24.95 ()

War Classics includes two important works from Sir John Monash – War Letters of General Monash and The Australian Victories in France in 1918 – in a beautiful collectors’ slipcase edition. This set offers unparalleled insight in the role of Australians in World War I, and into the experience of one of Australia’s greatest leaders, General Sir John Monash.

To aid him in his ambitious renovations…

$16.95 ()

Next Wave presents the work of 16 of the country’s most talented and cutting-edge studios who, with the support of open-minded clients, have embraced a broad range of new influences, innovative materials, and experimental design practices.

Rasputin… Putin… Is there a connection?

$15.95 ()

A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Douglas Smith’s Rasputin separates fact from fiction to reveal the true life of one of history’s most alluring figures. This book also offers a fascinating portrait of the twilight of Imperial Russia as it lurched towards catastrophe.

For understanding money…

$12.95 ()

In this tour de force of political, cultural and economic history, Felix Martin challenges nothing less than our conventional understanding of money. Money traces the development and evolution of one of humankind’s greatest inventions – from ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession.

If he admires Australian art…

$19.99 ()

Lloyd Rees (1895-1988) is one of the most admired 20th-century Australian artists. Lloyd Rees is the only title currently available on Rees’s paintings. It comprises an introductory essay and over 130 plates covering his oeuvre with a particular focus on his landscapes, a key subject matter throughout his life.

For the father who’s a classy reader

$13.95 ()

Pierre Lemaitre’s The Great Swindle won the prestigious Prix Goncourt prize for French literature, so very classy. In this heartrending novel, the interwoven lives of three men create a tapestry of the human condition as seen through the lens of war, revealing brutality and compassion, heroism and cowardice, in equal measure.