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City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest by Sophie Cunningham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays / Short Stories
How do we take in the beauty of our planet while processing the losses? What trees can survive in the city? Which animals can survive in the wild? How do any of us-humans, animals, trees-find a forest we can call home? In these moving, thought-provoking essays Sophie Cunningham considers the meaning of ...Show more
Fire Flood Plague: Australian Writers Respond to This Extraordinary Year by Sophie Cunningham ed.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a ...Show more
Flipper and Finnegan - The True Story of How Tiny Jumpers Saved Little Penguins by Sophie Cunningham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
From the bestselling creators of Tippy & Jellybean - The True Story of the Brave Koala who Saved Her Baby From a Bushfire, this affirming and delightful tale is based on a true story of animal rescue and community cooperation. Flipper and Finnegan live on a beautiful island. Every morning they hunt ...Show more
Melbourne by Sophie Cunningham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: City series | Reading Level: very good
Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city's life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degrees to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. She walks through Melbourne's oldest suburb to its largest market, she goes to the footy and to th ...Show more
Melbourne (Updated Edition) by Sophie Cunningham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: City Ser.
A year in Melbourne's city life told in diary form, this contemporary and personal portrait depicts major events from the Australian heat wave, which culminated in more than 400 bushfires, to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. While walking through Melbourne's oldest suburb to its largest market, ex ...Show more
Portraits by Sophie Cunningham, W. H. Chong, Michelle de Kretser, John Wolseley
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art/Decorative arts/Graphics
From award-winning book designer and artist W. H. Chong, Portraits is a collection of 300 drawings of artists, writers and musicians he has sketched over the last decade. Portraits is a love letter to our culture makers, a sparkling collection of more than 300 drawings of artists, writers, musicians, t ...Show more
This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Sometimes you need to go deep into the past, to make sense of the present Alice had not expected to spend the first twenty years of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new mille ...Show more
Tippy and Jellybean - The True Story of a Brave Koala who Saved her Baby from a Bushfire by Sophie Cunningham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Picture Books
Based on a heart-warming true story. Tippy and her baby Jellybean live in a beautiful eucalyptus forest.One day, they wake up and sniff the air. It's smokey, hot and windy. Kangaroos and wallabies are bounding. Lizards and snakes are slithering. Wombats are heading to their burrows. The cockatoos take o ...Show more
Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy by Sophie Cunningham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
The sky at the top end is big and the weather moves like a living thing. You can hear it in the cracking air when there is an electrical storm and as the thunder rolls around the sky...When Cyclone Tracy swept down on Darwin at Christmas 1974, the weather became not just a living thing but a killer. Tra ...Show more
Wonder: 175 Years of the Royal Botanic Gardens by Peter Wilmoth; Sophie Cunningham
$80.00 AUD
Category: Gardening
They sit in the physical and emotional heart of our city, and have done so for 175 years. Most of us have spent time there, and they mean different things to each of us. The Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne have been a place of calm, a site for reflection, creative inspiration, discovery, romance and ...Show more
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