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.
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu DebateKeryn Walshe and Peter Sutton An authoritative s...
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu DebateKeryn Walshe and Peter Sutton An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's 'Dark Emu' in 2014. It argued that classical Aboriginal society was more sophisticated than Australians had been led t...
$34.95
Practical Self Sufficiency: An Australian Guide to Sustainable Living in the 21st CenturyJames St...
Practical Self Sufficiency: An Australian Guide to Sustainable Living in the 21st CenturyJames Strawbridge and Dick Strawbridge The most up to date and comprehensive guide on sustainable living for your garden, home and kitchen. 'Practical Self Sufficiency' is a wonderfully useful and accessible book that contains something for absolutely everyone. This fully updated guide offers clear step-by-step information in classic DK style and offers a greater focus on the issues surrounding sustainabl...
$42.95
Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthyMatthew Evans What we do to th...
Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthyMatthew Evans What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. 'Soil' is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and civilisations falling. Of ancient hunger, modern sicknesses and gastronomic delight. It features poison gas, climate collapse and a mind-blowing explanation of how rain is formed. For too long, we've not only neglected the land beneath us, we've squandered and...
$34.95
Not a good book for little children
Not Cute Philip Bunting Once there was a quokka.Quokka was very cute.But Quokka did not like bein...
Not Cute Philip Bunting Once there was a quokka.Quokka was very cute.But Quokka did not like being cute.Not one bit… This is the romping, stomping, chomping tale of one stubbornly adorable marsupial. But beneath its many costumes, 'Not Cute' is a simple story about self-acceptance, listening to others, and not succumbing to your own delusions. For ages four years and older About the Author: Philip Bunting is an author and illustrator, with a soft spot for creating picture books for sleep-depr...
$18.95
Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for ForagersAlison Pouliot and Tom May Fungi are diverse, delicious and...
Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for ForagersAlison Pouliot and Tom May Fungi are diverse, delicious and sometimes deadly. With interest in foraging for wild food on the rise, learning to accurately identify fungi reduces both poisoning risk to humans and harm to the environment. This extensively illustrated guide takes a 'slow mushrooming' approach – providing the information to correctly identify a few edible species thoroughly, rather than many superficially. ‘Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Forage...
$49.95
Our Strangely Normal HouseFleur Schell This book is based on an artwork titled ‘Floorplan’ by Wes...
Our Strangely Normal HouseFleur Schell This book is based on an artwork titled ‘Floorplan’ by Western Australian ceramic artist, Fleur Schell. The inspiration behind ‘Floorplan’ was a collection of Fleur’s grandmothers old suitcases looking for a new home. Slowly over a year Fleur transformed twelve suitcases into a series of dioramas representing every room of her home. The result was a single wall mounted artwork. Each suitcase divulges the everyday, standard goings on in her families far f...
$65.00
PerthDavid Whish-Wilson “…we rarely travel far to swim. We occasionally cross the river to Leight...
PerthDavid Whish-Wilson “…we rarely travel far to swim. We occasionally cross the river to Leighton or Cottesloe, where the white sand squeaks underfoot and the champagne foam in the shallows tingles the legs and fizzes over the shoreline and makes children giddy with delight … the cirrus clouds above the horizon often resemble passages of perfect cursive script written in soft white lines against the bluest page.” David Whish-Wilson's 'Perth' is a place where deeper historical currents are n...
$29.95
National ParksAustralian Geographic Lose yourself in some of Australia's most remarkable wild are...
National ParksAustralian Geographic Lose yourself in some of Australia's most remarkable wild areas as Australian Geographic takes you through 50 of their favourite national parks. There are 726 national parks in Australia. They cover 35,074,410 square kilometres of land, more than 4 per cent of the total area of the country. Australia revels in a rich diversity of habitats and environments, expressed no more beautifully than in our spectacular national parks. Each has its own distinct charac...
$59.95
The Urban Farmer: How to Create a Productive Garden in Any SpaceJustin Calverley The guide for an...
The Urban Farmer: How to Create a Productive Garden in Any SpaceJustin Calverley The guide for anyone who dreams of living the country life in the city by growing their own healthy, sustainable fruit and veg - and more! Producing our own fruit, vegetables, herbs, eggs and honey is perfectly possible in a suburban space, and this practical guide will help urban dwellers develop a more sustainable existence. With a deep knowledge of permaculture and organic gardening, horticultural expert Justi...
$45.00
The Boab TreePat Lowe That ‘colossus of the bush’, the boab tree, has long intrigued visitors to ...
The Boab TreePat Lowe That ‘colossus of the bush’, the boab tree, has long intrigued visitors to the Kimberley. Where did it come from? How long does it live? With its strong branches and gnarled trunk, the boab is a minor ecosystem, providing shade and shelter for other lives. Native bees and bagmoths, lizards and nesting birds, cattle and human beings, the boab embraces them all. Some aged boabs bear scars from long-past visitors: Aboriginal engravings, Muslim prayer alcoves, the name of a ...
$39.95
Lucky-Child: The SecretDr Chelinay Gates Answering her dying great grandmother's call, Lucy is lu...
Lucky-Child: The SecretDr Chelinay Gates Answering her dying great grandmother's call, Lucy is lured into the dark red heart of Australia's Great Sandy Desert. Indigenous mother tongues, Mangala and Wajarri exquisitely mimic the landscapes and evoke a feeling of timelessness that transports Lucy and the all-female search party into a Dreamtime World where she learns to respect the Lore, Country and herself. "Like the striking of an ancient gong, I heard my name Lucy Lucky-Child" "Impressed by...
$34.95
Step-by-step Veg Patch: How to Grow Your Own Food in AustraliaLucy Chamberlain Have you started g...
Step-by-step Veg Patch: How to Grow Your Own Food in AustraliaLucy Chamberlain Have you started growing your own food yet? Do you need the basics before you get started, or want to know how to grow a specific fruit or vegetable but are unsure how? This book makes it as easy as possible! 'Step-by-step Veg Patch: How to Grow Your Own Food in Australia' contains brilliantly simple instructions on how to grow the most common vegetables, fruits and herbs (including 275 varieties), especially desig...
$42.95