Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009

Tim Winton

This aptly titled novel knocks the breath out of the listener as it recounts a youth's daredevil surfing exploits, evoking the fragile balance between life and death. Paramedic Bruce Pike looks back in this coming-of-age story of his thrill-seeking youth in 1970s Australia. He and his friend, Loonie, me...

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Bill Gates

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Before Bill Gates became an expert on climate science, he was known as one of the few who studied pandemics - how they start, how they spread, how they can be controlled. He warned us years ago in a now-famous TED Talk of their ...

Blueback

Tim Winton

'Winton ... convince s us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York TimesAbel Jackson's boyhood belongs to a vanishing world. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. It's just him an...