Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Sara Jane Boyers
$34.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Shadows on the wall Noises down the hall Life doesn't frighten me at all Maya Angelou's brave, defiant poem celebrates the courage within each of us, young and old. From the scary thought of panthers in the park to the unsettling scene of a new classroom, fearsome images are summoned and dispelled by ...Show more
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume o ...Show more
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, B ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Complete Illustrated Edition by William Shakespeare
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The First-Ever, Fully Illustrated Collector's Edition of William Shakespeare's Celebrated Sonnets! In celebration of the momentous 400th annversary of William Shakespeare's death in April 2016, this enhanced edition of Shakepeare's Sonnets features gorgeous full-color artwork throughout that brings The ...Show more
There's Not One (HB) by Jennifer Higgie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
"This joyous debut from Jennifer Higgie celebrates the details and diversity of the world around us. In kaleidoscopic colour, Higgie takes young readers on a journey from some of life's most important things (baked beans!) to some of life's biggest wonders (stars!). The perfect early picture book for th ...Show more
Drawing a Tree by Bruno Munari
$32.95 AUD
Category: Design | Series: About the Workshop Series
ABOUT WORKSHOP The books in the new "workshop" series describe different methods of learning, from educational activities to explanatory pamphlets to poetic play. The illuminating, gentle genius of Bruno Munari offers basic instructions and plenty of stimuli, suggestions, and illustrative pictures to ge ...Show more
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words o ...Show more
50 Things to Do in the Wild by Richard Skrein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
50 savvy skills for outdoor adventurers. This trusty guide teaches you all the essential skills you need to survive in the wild, from building a shelter to making a fire. Forest school practitioner Richard Skrein shares his expertise and enthusiasm for the outdoors through easy-to-understand instructio ...Show more
My Life As a Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrère
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk' Junot Díaz In this non-fiction novel - road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force - Emmanuel Carrère pursues two consuming obsessions: the disappearance of his grandfather amid suspicions that he was a Nazi collaborator in the Second World War; and a viol ...Show more
97,196 Words : Essays (HB) by Emmanuel Carrère
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays
*The first collection of essays in English from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary* Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrère has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre. For him, no form is out of reach: theo ...Show more
The Stranger by Albert Camus
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a ...Show more
The Illustrated Walden: Or, Life in the Woods by THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on man and nature."Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two years, he lived there as simply as possible, le ...Show more