MY BOOKS (OR, WHAT'S IN MY BOOKSHELVES)

  

NON-FICTION  (Anthropology, Genetics, Neurology, Sociobiology, History, Psychology, Feminism, Pop Culture, Biography, Travel, Health, Fitness, Humour …)

 

 

Phillip Adams & Lee Burton 

 Talkback

Nathalie Angier

The Beauty of the Beastly

Anonymous

The Princessa

David Attenborough

The First Eden

David Attenborough

The Life of Mammals

David Attenborough

Life On Air:  Memoirs

John D Barrow

The Origin of the Universe

John Berendt

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Dee Brown

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Bill Bryson

Mother Tongue

Stephen Budiansky

The Nature of Horses

Thomas Cahill

How the Irish Saved Civilisation

Norman Cantor

In the Wake of the Plague

Lisa Chaney

Elizabeth David

Jung Chang

Wild Swans; Three Daughters of China

Bruce Chatwin

In Patagonia

Bruce Chatwin

The Songlines

Noam Chomsky

Manufacturing Consent

Noam Chomsky

Hegemony or Survival:  America's Quest for Global Dominance

Kaz Cooke

The Modern Girls’ Guide to Everything

Kaz Cooke

Keep Yourself Nice

Kaz Cooke

Real Gorgeous

Kaz Cooke

Get a Grip

Kaz Cooke

Get Another Grip

Kaz Cooke

Up the Duff

Kaz Cooke

Living With Crazy Buttocks

Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species

Paul Davies

The Last Three Minutes

Richard Dawkins

The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins

River Out of Eden

Richard Dawkins

Climbing Mount Improbable

Richard Dawkins

Unweaving the Rainbow

Adrian Desmond & James Moore 

 Darwin: A Life in Science

Jared Diamond

Why is Sex Fun?

Jared Diamond

The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee

Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies

Gerald Durrell

My Family and Other Animals

Exeter Books

Guide to the Cats of the World

Susan  Faludi

Backlash

Tim Flannery

The Future Eaters

Tim Flannery

Throwim Way Leg

Janet Frame

To the Is-land

Janet Frame

An Angel at My Table

Janet Frame

The Envoy from Mirror City

Stephen J Gould

Dinosaur in a Haystack

Stephen J Gould

Life’s Grandeur

Susan Greenfield

The Private Life of the Brain

Mary & John Gribbin

Being Human

James Herriot

All Creatures Great and Small

Dominic Hibberd

Wilfred Owen: A New Biography (hardback)

Don Johansson & James Shreeve

 Lucy’s Child

Paul Johnson

The History of the Jews

Steve Jones

In the Blood – God, Genes and Destiny

Steve Jones

The Language of the Genes

Robert Lacey

The Year 1000

Richard Leakey

The Origin of Humankind

Richard Leakey

The Sixth Extinction

John Maddox

What Remains to be Discovered

Leo Marks

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War 1941-45 (hardback)

Ellen MacArthur

Taking on the World (hardback)

James McBride

The Color of Water

Pete McCarthy

McCarthy’s Bar

Robert McCrum, William Cran & Robert MacNeil

 The Story of English

Susan Mitchell

Icons, Saints and Divas

Virginia Morell

Ancestral Passions

Sally Morgan

My Place

Desmond Morris

Catwatching

Desmond Morris

Cat Breeds of the World (hardback)

Sherwin B Nuland

The Wisdom of the Body

Ruth Park

Fishing in the Styx

Allan & Barbara Pease

Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps

Steven Pinker

How the Mind Works

Roy Porter

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

Terry Pratchett & Gary Jolliffe

 The Unadulterated Cat (hardback)

Matt Ridley

The Origins of Virtue

Matt Ridley

Genome

Matt Ridley

Nature via Nurture:  Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human

Monty Roberts

The Man Who Listens to Horses

Rough Guides

Britain

Rough Guides

Ireland

Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks

Migraine

Oliver Sacks

An Anthropologist on Mars

Oliver Sacks

The Island of the Colour Blind

Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Simon Schama

The History of Britain Volume 1: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC – 1603 (hardback)

Simon Schama

The History of Britain Volume 2: The Britain Wars 1603 - 1776 (hardback)

Simon Schama

The History of Britain Volume 3:  The Fate of Britain 1776 - 2000 (paperback)

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

Enigma: The Battle for the Code

James Shreeve

The Neanderthal Enigma

Brooke Siler

The Pilates Body

Simon Singh

The Code Book

Francine St George

Bodyworks

Chris Stringer & Robin McKie

 African Exodus

Ian Tattersall

Becoming Human

Alan Walker & Pat Shipman

The Wisdom of the Bones

Patrick Wall

Pain:  The Science of Suffering

Marina Warner

Alone of All Her Sex

Alison Weir

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Margaret Wertheim

Pythagoras’ Trousers – God, Physics and the Gender Wars

Naomi Wolf

The Beauty Myth

Naomi Wolf

Fire with Fire

Robert Wright

The Moral Animal

 

 

 

 

PLAYS AND POETRY 

 

 

 

T S Eliot

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Michael Leunig,

The Prayer Tree (hardback)

Neal T Jones (ed)

A Book of Days for the Literary Year

Arthur Miller

The Crucible

Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman

Viggo Mortensen

Coincidence and Memory (poetry/photography/art)

William Shakespeare

Collected Works (hardback)

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

Arms and the Man

Shane Weller (ed)

Greatest Love Poems

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Ernest

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windemere’s Fan

Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

Tennesee Williams

Sweet Bird of Youth

Tennesee Williams

The Glass Menagerie

Tennesee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire

 

 

 

 

FICTION

 

 

 

Richard Adams

Watership Down

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

Cat's Eye

Margaret Atwood

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood

The Robber Bride

Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Emma

Jane Austen

Persuasion

Candida Baker (ed)

The Penguin Book of the Horse

J G Ballard

Empire of the Sun

Melissa Bank

The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Nick Bantock

The Venetian’s Wife  (hardback)

Louis de Bernieres

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Anne Bronte

The Tenant at Wildfell Hall  (hardback)

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre  (hardback)

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights  (hardback)

Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Stories

William Carpenter

A Keeper of Sheep

Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay

Anita Diamant

The Red Tent

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Little Dorritt

Charles Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit

Roddy Doyle

A Star Called Henry

Nick Earls

Perfect Skin

ed?

The Penguin Dorothy Parker

George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Daniel Deronda

Ben Elton

Inconceivable

Laura Esquivel

Like Water for Chocolate

Nicholas Evans

The Horse Whisperer  (hardback)

M J Farrell (Molly Keane)

Devoted Ladies

Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones' Diary

Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

F Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

E M Forster

A Room With a View

Margaret Forster

Lady’s Maid

Brian Gallagher

The Feng-Shui Junkie

Jostein Gardner

Sophie’s World

Stella Gibbons

Cold Comfort Farm

Arthur Golden

Memoirs of a Geisha

David Gutterson

Snow Falling on Cedars

Robert Harris

Fatherland

Robert Harris

Enigma

Peter Høeg

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow

Keri Holmes

The Bone People

Nick Hornby

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby

About a Boy

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

Thomas Keneally

Schindler's List

Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Marian Keyes

Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married

Marian Keyes

Rachel’s Holiday

Marian Keyes

The Last Chance Saloon

Marian Keyes

Sushi for Beginners

Marian Keyes

Angels

Barbara Kingsolver

The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver

Animal Dreams

Barbara Kingsolver

Homeland  (short stories)

Barbara Kingsolver

Pigs in Heaven

Barbara Kingsolver

High Tide in Tucson: Essays From Now or Never  (essays)

Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Prodigal Summer

Barbara Kingsolver

Prodigal Summer  (hardback)

Barbara Kingsolver

Prodigal Summer  (audiobook, read by the author)

Barbara Kingsolver

Small Wonder  (essays)

Barbara Kingsolver (ed)

Best American Short Stories of 2001

Judith Krantz

Scruples

Judith Krantz

Princess Daisy

Judith Krantz

I’ll Take Manhattan

Judith Krantz

Scruples Two

Judith Krantz

Dazzle

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Kathy Lette

The Llama Parlour

Anita Loos

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Jonathon Lynn & Anthony Jay

The Complete Yes Minister

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love in the Time of Cholera

Yann Martel

The Life of Pi

Daphne de Maurier

Rebecca

Ann-Marie McDonald

Fall on Your Knees

Ian McEwan

Atonement

Monica McInerney

A Taste For It

Jacquelyn Mitchard

The Deep End of the Ocean

Nancy Mitford

Love in a Cold Climate

Nancy Mitford

In Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford

The Blessing

Nancy Mitford

Don’t Tell Alfred

Toni Morrison

Beloved

Haruki Murakami

Dance Dance Dance

Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood

Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient

Rosamunde Pilcher

The Shell Seekers

E Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

Vikram Seth

A Suitable Boy

Pauline Simons

Tully

Pauline Simons

Red Leaves

Jane Smiley

Moo

Graham Swift

Last Orders

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

The Hundred Secret Senses  (hardback)

Colm Toibin

The Blackwater Lightship

Barbara Trapido

Brother of the More Famous Jack

Barbara Trapido

Temples of Delight

Barbara Trapido

Noah’s Ark

Barbara Trapido

Juggling

Barbara Trapido

The Travelling Hornplayer

Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers

Leon Uris

Exodus

Jane Urquhart

Away

Jane Urquhart

The Stone Carvers

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

Fay Weldon

Growing Rich

Mary Wesley

Jumping the Queue

Mary Wesley

The Camomile Lawn

Mary Wesley

Harnessing Peacocks

Mary Wesley

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

Mary Wesley

Not That Sort of Girl

Mary Wesley

A Sensible Life

Mary Wesley

A Dubious Legacy

Mary Wesley

An Imaginative Experience

Mary Wesley

Part of the Furniture

Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence

Tim Winton

Cloudstreet

Tim Winton

The Riders

Tim Winton

Dirt Music  (hardback)

 

 

 

 

CRIME AND MYSTERY

 

 

 

John le Carre

The Little Drummer Girl

John le Carre

The Constant Gardener

Dick Francis

(All books by)

Jonathon Lethem

Motherless Brooklyn

Ngaio Marsh

(All books by)

Sara Paretsky

Indemnity Only

Sara Paretsky

Deadlock

Sara Paretsky

Killing Orders

Sara Paretsky

Bitter Medicine

Sara Paretsky

Toxic Shock

Sara Paretsky

Burn Marks

Sara Paretsky

Guardian Angel

Sara Paretsky

Tunnel Vision

Sara Paretsky

VI for Short  (short stories)

Dorothy L Sayers

Clouds of Witness

Dorothy L Sayers

The Nine Tailors

Dorothy L Sayers

Strong Poison

Dorothy L Sayers

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

Dorothy L Sayers

Murder Must Advertise

Dorothy L Sayers

Have His Carcase

Dorothy L Sayers

Gaudy Night

Dorothy L Sayers

Busman’s Honeymoon

Dorothy L Sayers

Thrones, Dominations  (with Jill Paton Walsh)

Dorothy L Sayers

Striding Folly  (short stories)

Dorothy L Sayers

The Documents in the Case  (hardback)

Mary Stewart

Touch Not the Cat

Josephine Tey

Brat Farrar

Josephine Tey

The Daughter of Time

 

 

 

 

SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

 

 

Douglas Adams

The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Douglas Adams

Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Jean M Auel

The Clan of the Cave Bear  (hardback)

Jean M Auel

The Valley of Horses  (hardback)

Jean M Auel

The Mammoth Hunters

Jean M Auel

The Plains of Passage

Jean M Auel

The Shelters of Stone

David Brin

Startide Rising

Orson Scott Card

Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card

Speaker for the Dead

Michael Crichton

Jurassic Park

Jude Fisher

A Visual Companion to The Lord of the Rings; The Two Towers (hardback)

Alan Dean Foster

Alien Omnibus (Alien; Aliens; Alien 3)

William Gibson

Neuromancer

Ursula le Guin

The Earthsea Quartet (A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore; Tehanu)

Ursula le Guin

The Other Wind  (hardback)

Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson

Prelude to Dune: House Atreides

Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson

Prelude to Dune: House Harkonnen

Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson

Prelude to Dune: House Corrino

Frank Herbert

Dune

Frank Herbert

Children of Dune

Frank Herbert

God Emperor of Dune

George Lucas et al

Star Wars Trilogy (A New Hope; The Empire Strikes Back; Return of the Jedi)

Vonda McIntyre

Dreamsnake

Robin McKinley

Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast

Robin McKinley

The Blue Sword

Terry Pratchett

The Colour of Magic

Terry Pratchett

The Light Fantastic

Terry Pratchett

The Witches Trilogy (Equal Rites; Wyrd Sisters; Witches Abroad)  (hardback)

Terry Pratchett

Mort

Terry Pratchett

Sourcery

Terry Pratchett

Guards, Guards!

Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures

Terry Pratchett

Reaper Man

Terry Pratchett

Lords and Ladies

Terry Pratchett

Men at Arms

Terry Pratchett

Small Gods

Terry Pratchett

Interesting Times

Terry Pratchett

Soul Music

Terry Pratchett

Maskerade

Terry Pratchett

Feet of Clay

Terry Pratchett

Hogfather

Terry Pratchett

Jingo

Terry Pratchett

The Last Continent

Terry Pratchett

Carpe Jugulum

Terry Pratchett

The Fifth Elephant

Terry Pratchett

The Truth  (hardback)

Terry Pratchett

Thief of Time  (hardback)

Terry Pratchett

Night Watch  (hardback)

Terry Pratchett

Monstrous Regiment  (hardback)

Terry Pratchett

Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook

Terry Pratchett

The Last Hero  (hardback, illustrated)

Terry Pratchett

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Terry Pratchett

The Wee Free Men  (hardback)

Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Cryptonomicon

J R R Tolkein

The Hobbit

J R R Tolkein

The Lord of the Rings:  The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King  (three volume paperback boxed set)

J R R Tolkein (illustrated by Alan Lee)

The Lord of the Rings:  The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King  (three volume hardback illustrated boxed set)

Connie Willis

The Doomsday Book

Connie Willis

To Say Nothing of the Dog

John Wyndham

The Day of the Triffids

 

 

 

 

CHILDREN’S BOOKS 

 

 

 

Mary Grant Bruce

Captain Jim

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking Glass

Roald Dahl

Danny, Champion of the World

Roald Dahl

The Witches

Antoine de Saint Exupery

The Little Prince

Paul Gallico

Thomasina

Paul Gallico

Love of Seven Dolls  (hardback)

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The Second Jungle Book

Pearl Lau

Clawed Monet’s Book of Famous Cats

Madeleine L’Engle

The Time Quartet  - A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L’Engle

The Time Quartet  - A Wind in the Door

Madeleine L’Engle

The Time Quartet  - A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Madeleine L’Engle

The Time Quartet  - Many Waters

Madeleine L’Engle

A House Like a Lotus

Madeleine L’Engle

An Acceptable Time

C S Lewis

The Magician’s Nephew

C S Lewis

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

C S Lewis

The Horse and His Boy

C S Lewis

Prince Caspian

C S Lewis

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

C S Lewis

The Silver Chair

C S Lewis

The Last Battle

Michelle Magorian

Goodnight Mister Tom

A A Milne

Winnie the Pooh

A A Milne

The House at Pooh Corner

A A Milne

When We Were Very Young

A A Milne

Toad of Toad Hall

Phillip Pullman

Northern Lights

Phillip Pullman

The Subtle Knife  (MISSING)

Phillip Pullman

The Amber Spyglass

J K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

J K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Randolph Stow

Midnite

Jonathon Swift

Gulliver’s Travels

Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days

Robert Westall

The Machine Gunners

E B White

Charlotte’s Web

Dianne Wynne Jones

Dogsbody

 

 

 

 

COOKING, FOOD AND DRINK 

 

 

Anonymous

Cocktails A- Z

Stephanie Alexander

The Cook’s Companion (hardback)

Australian Women’s Weekly

Gluten Free Cooking

Australian Women’s Weekly

Rice

Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential; Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Anthony Bourdain

A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal

Elizabeth David

Elizabeth David Classics - A Book of Mediterranean Food; French Country Cooking; Summer Cookery (hardback)

Elizabeth David

Italian Food

Elizabeth David

Cooking of Provincial France

Elizabeth David

An Omelette and a Glass of Wine

Elizabeth David

South Wind Through the Kitchen: The Best of Elizabeth David  (hardback)

Elizabeth David

I’ll Be With You in the Squeezing of a Lemon  (Penguin mini)

Lorenza de Medici

The Italian Table  (hardback)

Family Circle

Commonsense Cooking  (hardback)

Donna Hay

Marie Claire – Cooking

Donna Hay

Marie Claire - Dining

Jacqueline Passmore

The Noodle Shop Cookbook  (hardback)

Gary Rhodes

Gary Rhodes At the Table

Claudia Roden

A New Book of Middle Eastern Food

Nina Simonds

Asian Wraps  (hardback)

Charmaine Solomon

The Complete Asian Cookbook  (hardback)

Charmaine Solomon

Charmaine Solomon’s Thai Cookbook

Charmaine Solomon

One Course Meals  (hardback)

Rick Stein

Fruits of the Sea  (hardback)

Jeffrey Steingarten

The Man Who Ate Everything

Jodie Vassallo

Marie Claire - Noodles

Masako Yamaoka

A First Book of Japanese Cooking

 

 

 

 

REFERENCE

 

 

 

Oxford Publications

Oxford Hardback Concise English Dictionary  (hardback)

Oxford Publications

Oxford Paperback Thesaurus

J L Rodale

The Synonym and The Word Finder  (hardback box set)

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