Harold Holt: Always One Step Further by Ross Walker
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
A revelatory biography of Harold Holt, the prime minister who helped create modern Australia Harold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, he helped bring his party and nation into the late twentieth century, following the Menzies years. Nowhere was H ...Show more
Daniel Andrews: The revealing biography of Australia's most powerful premier by Sumeyya Ilanbey
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
The revealing biography of Australia's most powerful premier.State premiers have risen to national prominence in a way not seen in a half century, with Victoria's Daniel Andrews the most successful. This fascinating biography uncovers the story behind his surprising rise to leadership, and his handling ...Show more
Zarifa - A Woman's Battle in a Man's World by Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights.I am one of the lucky ones.I got out of Afghanistan alive when the Taliban retook the country. Millions of others did not - they are now living under one of the world's most repressive regimes, with any ...Show more
Breaking History: A White House Memoir by Jared Kushner
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Jared Kushner was one of the most consequential presidential advisers in modern history. For the first time, he recounts what happened behind closed doors during the Trump presidency. Few White House advisors have had such an expansive portfolio or constant access to the president. From his office next ...Show more
Albanese: Telling It Straight by Karen Middleton
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
Anthony Albanese has been at the heart of Labor politics in Australia for a decade. For the previous decade he persistently worked to ensure that the Labor left was a vital part of all ALP activities. This is his story. The turbulent years of federal politics with a deeply personal dimension, this is th ...Show more
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia's leader by Philip Short
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
The monumental biography of the most influential leader on the world stage in the last twenty years. Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his nei ...Show more
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
When the fate of the nation is in your hands, who do you call?
The Consul: An Insider Account from Australia's Diplomatic Frontline by Ian Kemish
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
An absorbing insider's account of leadership and service within Australia's Consular service, through tumultuous events including the September 11 attacks, the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day Tsunami.As head of Australia's consular service, Ian Kemish played a central role in the nation's response to s ...Show more
Franklin and Winston - An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political
The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two ...Show more
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Written by two award-winning reporters with unprecedented access, this is the only definitive biography of George Floyd.The murder of George Floyd sparked a fiery summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, with peaceful protests sometimes erupting into violent clashes. From Shetland to Sa ...Show more
Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment by Theo Padnos
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
An award-winning journalist’s extraordinary account of being kidnapped and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years—a revelatory memoir about war, human nature, and endurance that’s “the best of the genre, profound, poetic, and sorrowful” (The Atlantic). In 2012, American journalist Theo Padnos, f ...Show more
Julian Assange In His Own Words by Julian Assange
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
Since April 2019, Julian Assange has been remanded at a maximum security prison in London facing extradition to the United States, a prosecution that David McGraw, lead lawyer for The New York Times, has described as setting a "very, very bad precedent for publishers." Assange may be imprisoned and gagg ...Show more