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John Watson
In a time of heightened hostility towards experts, academics and scientists, the 2017 collection of the best Conversation articles and essays is a must-read. If proof were needed that academia…
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John Clarke
This fine collection includes John Clarke’s writing for radio, television, stage and screen, as well as previously unpublished pieces.
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Hugh White
America is fading, and China will soon be the dominant power in our region. What does this mean for Australia’s future?
Don Watson
Speechwriter, historian, essayist, word doctor; Don Watson has a gift for gently guiding us to the nub of a matter and a grinding of the teeth, an aha or a…
Beau Donelly,Nick Toscano
Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself from terminal brain cancer with a healthy diet. She built a global business based upon her claims. There was just one…
Judith Buckrich
Unique in Melbourne’s history, Acland Street has been the home, playground and business address for millionaires and paupers, members of parliament, creators of the culture, sex workers, criminals, migrants from…
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Richard Allen,Kimbal Baker
This fascinating and beautiful book, sequel to the bestselling Great Properties of Country Victoria, takes us into the private world of twelve notable properties. Through their early histories we follow…
Chris Masters
Australia’s foremost investigative journalist goes deep into the heart of our Special Forces long war in Afghanistan.
Frank Moorhouse
A celebration of a great Australian love affair, ‘The Drover’s Wife’ in the Australian imagination: stories, performances and images.
Titus O'Reily
Titus O'Reily, Australia’s least insightful sports writer, takes you through the history of Australian sport and the people who made it. In his inimitable comic style, he explains how sport…
Drawn from John Clarke’s and Bryan Dawe’s weekly broadcasts, these timelessly funny scripts will delight readers as they revisit the scandals and stuff-ups of our lifetimes. Politics was never so…
Helen Garner
An extraordinary book of collected short non-fiction, spanning fifty years of work, by one of Australia’s great writers.
Bain Attwood
In this superbly researched book Bain Attwood eschews the generalisations of national and colonial history to provide a finely grained local history of the……
Graham Archer
An investigation into an intriguing murder case and an unprecedented account of how the decisions made by organs of government can be defended and…..
James Boyce
A jaw-dropping account of how one company came to own every poker machine in Tasmania - and the cost to democracy, the public purse and problem gamblers and their families.
Would it be ethical to eat sentient aliens? What is the basis of the difference between the sexes? Why is there something rather than nothing? Now in its seventh year…
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Jonathan Pearlman
‘We need to determine a foreign policy of our own - one that looks after Australia’s interest in the new order; an order which will have China as its centre…
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that…
Ross McMullin
Hundreds of Australian first-person narratives of World War I have been published, but none more riveting than this one.
Gabriella Coslovich
Offers a tale of obsession, greed and ego, where the richly diverse worlds of art, horse-racing, high finance, the luxury car trade and a humble tradesman collide - and no…
Katherine Wilson
At a time when the labour-market is failing as a source of security and identity for many, domestic tinkering is emerging as a legitimate occupation in a…..
Erik Jensen
‘Kate says she doesn’t know what to say about writing. When people ask, she tells them to prepare for a life of failure.
Alice Pung
In this fascinating book, Alice Pung writes about one of her deep influences - the much-loved and hugely successful John Marsden.
Mandy Sayer
Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet their experiences have never been included in any official histories of the country. In this volume, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer…
Benjamin Law
Are Australian schools safe? And if they’re not, what happens when kids are caught in a bleak collision between ill-equipped school staff and a confected media scandal?
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Anna Broinowski
After eighteen years in the political wilderness, Pauline Hanson is back and more powerful than ever. Please Explain is a compelling, intimate look at how an Ipswich fish and chip…
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Leonie Stevens
Longlisted for The Dick and JoanGreen Family Award for Tasmanian History
Claire Higgins
In the late 1970s, 150,000 Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians arrived in Australia by boat, fleeing war and oppression. This influx of people, and the way the Fraser government handled it…
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John Birmingham
John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they’re…
Kim McGrath
This groundbreaking book tells the story of Australia’s ongoing secret attempts to deprive East Timor of its oil and gas.
Niki Savva
In the original edition of The Road to Ruin, prominent political commentator, author, and columnist for The Australian Niki Savva revealed the ruinous behaviour of former prime minister Tony Abbott…
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Glenn Morrison
Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia. What they find is both beautiful and disturbing: wilderness, desire, an ancient philosophy of home, and the confusing countenance…
Joe Gorman
This is more than a book about soccer - it is the story of Australia’s national identity.
Robert Macklin
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from before Captain Cook to the present day.
Mark Aarons,John Grenville
In 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia’s Catholic bishops created a clandestine church organisation to smash the Communist Party’s massive trade union base. Soon, The Movement, working…
David Gillespie
Bestselling author David Gillespie turns his attention to a phenomenon that damages businesses, seeds mental disease and discomfort and can bring civilisations to the brink of implosion - the psychopath.
Tim Flannery
Internationally renowned climate change expert Professor Tim Flannery presents a detailed and fascinating vision of the technologies that will prove invaluable in ensuring a sustainable future for our planet.
Julian Burnside
Rich with fascinating case studies, and eloquent in its defence of civil society, Watching Out is a beacon of legal liberalism in an intemporate age.
The changes we have made will remain - like all great Labor legislation - permanent landmarks in our history.‘ Gough Whitlam The Whitlam government propelled….
Eve Vincent
Against Native Title is about one group’s lived experience of a divisive native title claim in the outback town of Ceduna, where the native title claims process has….
Peter Stanley
Australia’s official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia’s first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. In Charles Bean…
Adam Cass
In August 2017, Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre celebrates 50 years since the premiere of its first production, Jack Hibberd’s Three Old Friends. La Mama commemorates the rich life story of…
Andrew Ford
The Memory of Music is a moving and evocative memoir that will appeal to music lovers everywhere.
Mark Butler
As the consequences of climate change become perilously close to the point of no-return, time-wasting wars over what to do distract us from taking real action. Climate Wars argues that…
Ken Hillman
A professor of intensive care asks why so many elderly people linger in pain and confusion in ICU when all they want is to die at home in peace and…
Catherine Jinks
The story of a nineteenth century court case involving Thomas Guthrie Carr, a notorious, larger-than-life character who made his living as a mesmerist, phrenologist, public speaker and some say charlatan.
Donald Horne,Nick Horne
One of Australia’s leading thinkers for close to fifty years, Donald Horne was probably the best Australian non-fiction writer of his generation.
Anna Krien
The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Extreme weather is becoming all too familiar. And the Coalition government is divided and paralysed.
