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
Young Soeharto: The Making of a Soldier, 1921-1945 by David Jenkins
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
The first volume in a landmark three-part biographical series chronicling Soeharto's rise to power When a reluctant President Sukarno gave Lieutenant General Soeharto full executive authority in March 1966, Indonesia was a deeply divided nation, fractured along ideological, class, religious and ethnic ...Show more
Diplomatic: A Washington memoir by Joe Hockey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
In September 2015 Joe Hockey's political career was brought to a dramatic end when Malcolm Turnbull successfully challenged Prime Minister Tony Abbott for the Liberal Leadership. Hockey was told by Turnbull he would no longer be Treasurer - a deal had been done with Scott Morrison. Hockey, who was at on ...Show more
Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny by Troy Bramston
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
The definitive full-life biography of Australia's 23rd prime minister; the only one that Hawke cooperated with after exiting the prime ministership. This unprecedented biography of Hawke includes an exclusive series of interviews with him - the last that he gave - as well as unfiltered access to his ex ...Show more
Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? by Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, Ben Noble
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
A fascinating account of Russia's famous dissident and the politics he embodies. Who is Alexei Navalny? Poisoned in August 2020 and transported to Germany for treatment, the politician returned to Russia in January 2021 in the full glare of the world media. His immediate detention at passport contro ...Show more
Angela Merkel: Europe's Most Influential Leader by MATTHEW QVORTUP
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
'An excellent book.' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times 'A biography that reads like an Icelandic saga.' - The Times The definitive UPDATED biography of perhaps the most respected political figure in the world fully updated to within a month of publication. Matthew Qvortrup's definitive and insightful biogr ...Show more
Die Laughing: The Biography of Bill Leak by Fred Pawle
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
How does a young man who learns jazz and classical piano, scours Europe's great art galleries for artistic enlightenment and falls in love with women from all over the world go on to become reviled as a bigot? The answer has less to do with him than it does with his critics. As cartoonist Bill Leak disc ...Show more
JFK: Volume 1: 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
The definitive biography of JFK, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's much-garlanded masterpiece- 'The most compelling biography I have read in years' Max Hastings By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the ...Show more
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis; Bing West
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine. Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis's ...Show more
Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds by Huma Abedin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
In this beautifully written and propulsive memoir, Huma Abedin—Hillary Clinton’s famously private top aide and longtime adviser—emerges from the wings of American political history to take command of her own story. The daughter of Indian and Pakistani intellectuals and advo ...Show more
A Bigger Picture: With new foreword by Malcolm Turnbull
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
In A Bigger Picture, the bestselling political memoir of 2020, Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's 29th prime minister, tells the remarkable story of his life. Now in paperback, this edition is updated with an all-new foreword by the author that sheds light on the huge political and cultural changes happening ...Show more