The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repe ...Show more
Sort Your Career Out: And Make More Money by Shelley Johnson, Glen James
$32.95 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
The best investment you can make is in yourself and your career Sort Your Career Out: And Make More Money is your go-to guide for building a career that you love. Dream jobs don’t just come along: you need to make them happen. And this is the book that will show you how, from creating the ultimate care ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s sq ...Show more
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. In his irresistible trilogy on the chaotic Trump presidency - Fire and Fury, Siege, and Landslid ...Show more
Humanity's Moment: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope by Joëlle Gergis
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Acknowledging that the world as we know it is coming apart is an act of courage. If I live to look back at this troubled time, I want to say that I did all that I could, that I was on the right side of history. The question is, do you want to be part of the legacy that restores our faith in humanity? Wh ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay # 7 | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first Prime Minister and Treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on those roles while bringing up primary-school-aged children, this detail p ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more
Prisoner X by Rafael Epstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
The urgent phone call comes from behind the barbed wire. 'This is Ayalong prison,' says one of the guards urgently. 'Listen, he hanged himself, we need an ambulance.' Prisoner X, just 34 years old, was slumped in a small bathroom, separated from his cell by a transparent door. Kept in one of the most te ...Show more
Born Into This by Adam Thompson
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
The stories in Born Into This throw light on a world of unique cultural practice and perspective, from Indigenous rangers trying to instil some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and co ...Show more
Where the Water Ends: Seeking Refuge in Fortress Europe by Zoe Holman
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Around the world, forced migration doubled in the decade leading up to 2019. Over that time, the borders of the European Union became the world's deadliest frontier. More than 20,000 people have died or disappeared while attempting to gain entry since 2012, the year the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Pr ...Show more
Courtiers: The inside story of the Palace power struggles from the Royal correspondent who revealed the bullying allegations by Valentine Low
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Who advises the royal family, what influence do they have and how have they shaped history?Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied on its courtiers - the trusted advisers in the King or Queen's inner circle - to ensure its survival as a family, an ancient institution, and a pillar of the con ...Show more
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
An urgent call to arms from the Ukrainian leader whose unwavering courage in the face of the Russian invasion has inspired the world and turned him overnight into a global beacon of democracy The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with h ...Show more