Books
Aspects' prides itself on having Perth's best selection of gardening books, from Australian native flora through to garden design and propagation. Our selection also includes a wide range of books on travel, art and design, natural and cultural history, cooking, and Australian and children’s literature.
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save AustraliaVictor Steffensen Delving d...
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save AustraliaVictor Steffensen Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, 'Fire Country' is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of cultural burning practices, and improved 'reading' of country, could help to restore our land. From a young age, Victor has had a passion for traditional cultural and ecological knowledge. This was further de...
$32.95
Cooking with the Oldest Foods on Earth
Cooking with the Oldest Foods on Earth: Australian Native Foods Recipes and SourcesJohn Newton WI...
Cooking with the Oldest Foods on Earth: Australian Native Foods Recipes and SourcesJohn Newton WINNER of the 2020 Gourmand Award for Innovation Native produce business is booming and it's about to enter a new phase — Australian native ingredients are beginning to turn up in growers' markets and even local supermarkets. From Warrigal greens and saltbush, to kangaroo and yabbies — John Newton will inspire you to grab some and take it home. This short companion book to the award-winning 'The Old...
$22.95
Warndu Mai (Good Food): Introducing native Australian ingredients to your kitchenRebecca Sullivan...
Warndu Mai (Good Food): Introducing native Australian ingredients to your kitchenRebecca Sullivan and Damien Coulthard This gorgeous illustrated, informative and contemporary cookbook and compendium of native foods will show you how to create truly Australian food and drinks at home. With a few small adjustments and a little experimentation you can prepare delicious food that is better for the Australian environment, is more sustainable and celebrates the amazing ingredients that are truly lo...
$45.00
A Guide to Native Bees of Australia
A Guide to Native Bees of AustraliaTerry Houston 'A Guide to Native Bees of Australia' provides a...
A Guide to Native Bees of AustraliaTerry Houston 'A Guide to Native Bees of Australia' provides a detailed introduction to the estimated 2000 species of Australian bees. Illustrated with stunning photographs, it describes the form and function of bees, their life-cycle stages, nest architecture, sociality and relationships with plants. It also contains systematic accounts of the five families and 58 genera of Australian bees. Photomicrographs of morphological characters and identification ke...
$49.95
Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy From its humble beginnings as a stall at Sydney's Paddington Mar...
Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy From its humble beginnings as a stall at Sydney's Paddington Markets, Dinosaur Designs has become a beloved Australian brand that has attracted international acclaim. This book celebrates the innovation and inspiration that have, over thirty years, produced a covetable body of homewares and jewellery. As young art students Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy began selling resin jewellery with a stall at Sydney's Paddington markets. Today they have a business that...
$79.95
Australian Bush SuperfoodsLily Alice and Thomas O’Quinn Australia's unique native ingredients boa...
Australian Bush SuperfoodsLily Alice and Thomas O’Quinn Australia's unique native ingredients boast nutritional and medicinal benefits that cannot be found anywhere else on the planet. From the Kakadu plum with its unmatched vitamin C content, to bunya nuts that contain natural antibacterial properties, knowledge of these superfoods has been passed down in Aboriginal cultures for thousands of years. This book features 40 of Australia's most interesting and beneficial bush superfoods, with bea...
$32.95
Guide to the Wildlife of Perth and Australia's ...
Simon Nevill The highest selling and most comprehensive wildlife guide book in South Western Aust...
Simon Nevill The highest selling and most comprehensive wildlife guide book in South Western Australia! This (reissued) much-respected and encyclopaedic guide, first published in 2014, is indispensable to anyone with an interest in the wide variety of fauna and flora to be found in the south west of Australia. The area bounded by the Margaret River region in the far south west of Western Australia, Lancelin to the north of Perth, Esperance on the mid-south coast and the inland township of Sou...
$39.95
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Australian Friends
Eric Carle Can you find some of the amazing animals who live in Australia? Peek behind the flaps ...
Eric Carle Can you find some of the amazing animals who live in Australia? Peek behind the flaps on every page in this bright and beautiful book. This beautiful lift-the-flap book encourages children to peek under the flaps to find some of the many and varied animals of Australia including kangaroos, pelicans and crocodiles and sees the Very Hungry Caterpillar appearing in the rainforest on the final spread. For ages two years and older About the Author:Eric Carle is an internationally bestse...
$16.95
Outback: The Amazing Animals of Australia
Outback: The Amazing Animals of Australia - A Photicular BookDan Kainen, Ella Morton and Dan Kain...
Outback: The Amazing Animals of Australia - A Photicular BookDan Kainen, Ella Morton and Dan Kainen Embark on an eye-opening adventure in the land Down Under, and see eight creatures in astounding motion. Using Photicular® technology that’s like a 3D movie on the page, 'Outback' whisks you to the vast, remote world of wild Australia, where heat waves dance forever and animals, isolated by the vagaries of continental drift, are unlike those found anywhere else on Earth. Each moving image deliv...
$29.95
Mem Fox, illustrated by Judy Horacek Here is the blue sheep, and here is the red sheep. Here is t...
Mem Fox, illustrated by Judy Horacek Here is the blue sheep, and here is the red sheep. Here is the bath sheep, and here is the bed sheep. But where is the green sheep? For ages zero to three years old About the Author:Mem Fox has written more than 40 books for children, including the bestselling and much-loved picture books Possum Magic and Where is the Green Sheep? Other books by Mem include Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Hunwick's Egg, Hello Baby!, A Giraffe in the Bath, Koala Lou...
$14.95
Alison Lester Part poem, part lullaby, this gentle story celebrates a baby's wonder at our beauti...
Alison Lester Part poem, part lullaby, this gentle story celebrates a baby's wonder at our beautiful world. From Australia's favourite picture-book creator Alison Lester comes a timeless book to share and to treasure. Now in a gorgeous board book edition. For ages zero to four years old About the Author: Alison Lester is one of Australia's most popular and bestselling creators of children's books. Her picture books mix imaginary worlds with everyday life, encouraging children to believe in th...
$14.95
Explore Your World: Weird, Wild, Amazing!
Professor Tim Flannery, illustrated by Sam Caldwell The first book for children from renowned aut...
Professor Tim Flannery, illustrated by Sam Caldwell The first book for children from renowned author and scientist Professor Tim Flannery, exploring the world’s weirdest and most fascinating animals in all their bizarre glory! Get ready for a whole new look at the world around you. You’re about to meet the weirdest, wildest and most amazing animals on the planet. Are zombie jellyfish real? Do frogs like opera? Which animals eat poop? (And more importantly, WHY?!) What’s it like to wrestle a ...
$34.95