The Office - A Hardworking History by Gideon Haigh
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 'The Office: A Hardworking History', Gideon Haigh traces from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding an extraordinary legacy of invention and ingenuity, shaped by the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, t ...Show more
Captain Pugwash (Book & CD) by John Ryan
$17.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Series: Captain Pugwash
Frances Lincoln are delighted to present paperback editions of this classic picture book series. There's nothing more likely to prompt our portly hero into action than the prospect of treasure. So when the valiant cabin boy Tom espies a mound of yellow stuff aboard a nearby ship, the Captain sets off in ...Show more
Paddington Goes for Gold by Michael Bond
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Series: Paddington
A brand new picture book starring Paddington, the classic bear from Darkest Peru, as he takes part in a local family sports event, with hilarious results! When Paddington attends a local family sports event with the Brown family, he can't wait to try his paw at as many activities as possible. But, as a ...Show more
The Diaries of Donald Friend: Vol 1 by Anna Gray (ed)
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
When Friend died in 1989, he left over 40 volumes of his diary. Now, the National Library has embarked on a major publishing project to to realise his wish that the diaries be edited and published. This first volume will cover Friend's early life as a student, his adventures in Nigeria and army experien ...Show more
A Secret Gift (POD) by Ted Gup
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
"A book for our times, sharing stories of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the generosity of a man who understood hardship.A timely and powerful work of America at its worst - and Americans at their best - woven from the stories of Depression-era families who were helped by gifts from the author's ...Show more
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: a 900-year-old Story Retold by John Guy
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Behind the legend, there was a man. In 1120 the wife of a Norman draper's merchant gave birth to a baby boy in London's bustling Cheapside. Despite his sickly constitution, middle-class background and unremarkable abilities, he rose within the space of thirty-five years to become the most powerful man i ...Show more
The Diaries of Donald Friend, Vol 2 by Paul Hetherington
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
When Friend died in 1989, he left over 40 volumes of his diary. Now, the National Library has embarked on a major publishing project to to realise his wish that the diaries be edited and published. This second volume covers the period January 1944 to March 1949 and includes over 100 drawings from the di ...Show more
The Diaries of Donald Friend: v. 3 by Paul Hetherington
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
When Friend died in 1989, he left over 40 volumes of his diary. Now, the National Library has embarked on a major publishing project to to realise his wish that the diaries be edited and published.
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother by Philippa Gregory
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen (2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen (2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Rivers Woman (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series, and of the three biographical essays in this book. Philippa Gregory and two hist ...Show more
The Diaries of Donald Friend: Vol.4 by Paul Hetherington
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Donald Friend's legendary years in Bali in the 1960s and 1970s and his subsequent final decade in Australia are revealed in detail in this fourth and final volume of The Diaries of Donald Friend. In Bali he lives luxuriously, like a lordeven keeping his own gamelan orchestraand becomes an international ...Show more
Something To Declare: A Memoir by Sir James Gobbo
$119.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Sir James Gobbo is an exemplar of Australia's multicultural society. In these memoirs, Sir James reflects on his involvement with immigration reform and in the growth of multicultural policy. The book traces his extensive contributions to areas such as artisanship training, the Australian honours system ...Show more