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Liam Pieper
Liam Pieper’s made some poor life choices, but he’s (usually) meant well. He’s tried to write important stories, fight racial prejudice and rescue traumatised puppies. And he’s ended up with…
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Anna Funder
The Girl with the Dogs is a poignantly beautiful novella about what’s really precious in life, from Miles Franklin Award-winning Anna Funder, author of All Th
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Rhonda Hetzel
This is the story of her journey and the lessons she has learned along the way. Rhonda relates why she wanted to change her lifestyle, what simple living means to…
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John Edwards
After decades of prosperity Australians are now worried about their jobs, their incomes and their future. The mining boom, said to explain Australia’s past success, is declared to be over…
Robert Bickers
After 1914, between tiffin and a day at the race track, the British in Shanghai enjoyed a life far removed from the horrors of the Great War. Shanghai’s status as…
Ronnie Scott
Salad Days is a fascinating and lyrical look at a particular moment in our history and society, and an important contribution to an ongoing debate about how we eat.
Zennon Kapron
In May 2013, China’s main state-run broadcaster aired a documentary about a little known virtual currency called Bitcoin. Over the next six months, the value of Bitcoin rocketed as Chinese…
Dennis McIntosh
Resuming his story where Beaten by a Blow left off, Dennis McIntosh gives an eye-opening account of seven years working underground, and how it impelled him to turn his life…
Rebecca Huntley
Does Cooking Matter? is a thorough and engaging examination of our current food culture, and a call to arms to bring Australians back into the kitchen.
Cooking is, for many…
Bob Ellis
In these witty, outrageous ten laws, beloved polymath Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, youth and old age, competence and charisma. He explains why, among other things: power flows to…
Luke Slattery
How Governor Macquarie invented an idea of Australia, a convict built it - and how Britain tried to tear it down.
While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far…
Sofija Stefanovic
You’re Just Too Good To Be True is a sometimes very funny and sometimes desperately poignant investigation into the dark underside of love in the digital age.
Troy Bramston
Troy Bramston is a former principal speechwriter for Kevin Rudd and an adviser to the Rudd government. He spent 10 years working as an adviser to federal Labor politicians in…
Peter Cochrane
Seventeen years after the mutiny on the Bounty, Governor-elect William Bligh sets sail for New South Wales accompanied by his daughter Mary, the narrator of this extraordinary shipboard tale.
A…
John Garnaut
Bo Xilai’s breathtaking fall from grace in 2012 is an extraordinary tale of excess, murder, defection and ideological clashes, as the princeling sons of the revolutionary heroes fight for control…
Ranjana Srivastava
Medical oncologist Ranjana Srivastava contends that the best medicine begins with a good chat, to guide the decision-making of both doctors and patients. Increasingly, people are unable to properly comprehend…
Gideon Haigh
Veteran journalist Gideon Haigh assesses the future of news media in light of the internet’s effects on traditional forms of publishing and broadcasting. In the last decade, customary news media…
Epicureanism is not just for gourmands - journalist Luke Slattery argues that it can help us rethink out materialist ways and face the challenges of man-made climate change.
Michaela McGuire
When Jill Meagher went missing and was then found murdered in 2012, the city of Melbourne was shaken to the core. Emotional responses ranged from grief to guilt to rage…
Sonya Hartnett
The internationally celebrated writer Sonya Hartnett is firmly Melburnian but has restlessly moved from suburb to suburb in her search for the ‘Last House’ - that special corner of the…
