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Read the book Facebook didn't want published

Darkly funny and genuinely shocking: an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world

 

The New York Times

 

From the former director of global public policy at Facebook, Careless People offers a chilling front-row seat to the role social media plays in our lives, the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them.

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Nonfiction about the state of the world

An examination of how the patriarchal status quo is harming us all, in our working lives and beyond.
An honest and informed call to examine, rethink and safeguard Australia’s unique democracy.

Combining historical, cultural, scientific and economic analysis with a hopeful yet realistic model, Herrmann paves our way out of the climate crisis, and into a new beginning.

 

Teddy Peak, Readings bookseller

 

A timely treatise on how we might transition to a more sustainable world without the collapse of the economy.

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Leading thinkers from Australia and around the world share a big idea for a better Australia.
A compassionate, ground-breaking essay that lifts the lid on a national crisis.

Australian lives

Delightful ... I gobbled this unique read all up. I basked in his humour, intellect, and sensitivity.

 

Chris Gordon, Readings bookseller

 

A memoir of art, travel, ideas and love from the acclaimed Australian writer Robert Dessaix.

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An anthology of creative non-fiction, memoir, graphic storytelling and more from Autistic writers.
A memoir about abuse, the search for justice and how we fail to keep our children safe.

Preorder Unsettled by Kate Grenville

What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?


Kate Grenville, Unsettled


Two decades after the release of her bestselling novel The Secret River, Kate Grenville returns to the Hawkesbury River region to chart the places her family stories happened and grapple with what it means to descend from people who were, as she puts it, 'on the sharp edge of the moving blade that was colonisation'.

Preorder Unsettled and we will dispatch your signed copy on the 1 April release date.
PREORDER HERE

Hear Kate Grenville in conversation

Join us 1 April at Cinema Nova to hear Grenville in conversation as she discusses Unsettled and the family history that inspired it.

$40 ticket price includes a signed first edition copy of the book.

 
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