For the Love of Books - Designing and Curating a Home Library by Thatcher Wine; Elizabeth Lane
$79.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
A celebration of the meaning and comfort printed books bring to our homes and lives, from the curation and design experts at Juniper Books. Explore the significance of the home library, embellished with alluring photography and illustrations, in a keepsake worthy of any bibliophile's collection. For the ...Show more
Girls Book How To Be The Best At Everything by Amanda Enright
$16.95 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
At last, here is a book the no girl should be without; a book that guarantees hours of fun; a book that will encourage girls to turn off the TV and go and do something more interesting instead. In brief, here is a book that shows readers exactly how to be the best at everything! Who could resist? You ca ...Show more
Magic 1400s-1950s by Mike Caveney
$110.00 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
Illusion, enchantment, and wonder. This book deals with the world's greatest magicians from the Middle Ages through the 1950s. Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to a ...Show more
IPad Made Easy (2018 Edition) by Roger Laing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous | Series: Made Easy Ser.
iPad Made Easy is the essential guide to getting the most out of this amazing device. This 2018 edition of the popular original book is updated to include the latest iOS 11 and the faster processor and functionality of the iPad Air and Pro versions. Learn how to set up and sync, then discover how versat ...Show more
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legacy by Susan Orlean
$39.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
"He believed the dog was immortal...' So begins the sweeping story of Rin Tin Tin: the story of a canine superstar and of American popular culture, spanning nearly a century and many human lives, told in the inimitable style of Susan Orlean, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief."
The Gifts of Reading - Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books 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: Miscellaneous | Reading Level: very good
'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, essayist ...Show more
Sweet Envy: 100 Recipes from the Grandest Little Bakehouse in Town by Alistair Wise; Teena Kearney-Wise
$45.00 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
Sweet Envy is an old-fashioned sweet parlor, cake shop, and bakehouse rolled into one destination of deliciousness in Hobart, Tasmania, and run by acclaimed pastry-chef Alistair Wise and his wife and business partner Teena. The recipes in this book are a snapshot--a slice in time--of the expert artisan ...Show more
Word Watching - Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist by Julian Burnside
$32.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous | Reading Level: very good
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It's All a Game: A Short History of Board Games by Tristan Donovan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
From board game cafes to puzzle books, we need diversion more than ever. This cheeky but nostalgic look at the history of board games is the perfect Christmas gift.
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books by Clare Pollard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve being eaten? Fierce Bad Rabbits explores the stories behind our favourite picture books, weaving in tales of Clare Pollard's childhood reading and her re-discovery ...Show more
The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten by Jeffrey Kacirk
$24.95 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous | Reading Level: very good
Enter a gallery of wit and whimsy!As the largest and most dynamic collection of words ever assembled, the English language continues to expand. But as hundreds of new words are added annually, older ones are sacrificed. Now from the author of Forgotten English comes a collection of fascinating archaic w ...Show more