Second Hand Non-Fiction

IN NICOLO'S SMILE, Maurizio Virali brings to life the fascinating writer who was the founder...

Based on the TV series of the same name, this book identifies and teases out...

While the correspondence between the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson has been preserved and...

What happens when you look at graffiti and street art as unlimited art forms instead...

Remember when our cities and inner-cities weren't dominatedby high-rise apartments? This book documents the changes...

There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy...

This illustrated memoir follows the life story of iconic Sydney restaurateur Beppi Polese. Beppi is...

'The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside...

Language opens up our world, and in the same instant, limits it. What does it...

Bright Swallow, a young girl labelled as of bad origins in Mao s Cultural Revolution,...

What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a...

He was one of the most eminent literary figures in the world. She was the...

In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the...

Southeast Asia: An introductory history has been the most widely read introduction to the region...

Discover the remarkable story of Wayne Bergmann, a Nyikina man and Kimberley leader who has...

From the warm and funny perspective of nationally known wine expert Judy Beardsall, Sniffing the...

Frieda Hempel (1885--1955) was among the greatest sopranos of opera's Golden Age. She created the...

Mikhail Gorbachev and Daisaku Ikeda are contemporaries raised in different cultures: Gorbachev is a statesman...

Ian Kershaw's biography of Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the definitive work on the...

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he...

Author of the best-selling AGINCOURT, Juliet Barker now tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten,...

Lauren Bacall was barely 20 when she made her Hollywood debut with Humphrey Bogart and...

The third book in the Australian Memories series commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end...

An account of what it was like to be a member of a tank crew...

This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military...

'A story resonant in our age . a grand narrative . a book to cherish...

Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did...

First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976), memes are ideas, behaviours, or...