A Very British Coup by Chris Mullin
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
Former steel worker Harry Perkins, has, against all the odds, led the Labour Party to a stunning victory at the general election. His manifesto includes the removal of American bases, public control of finance, and the dismantling of the newspaper monopolies. The Establishment is appalled by the prospec ...Show more
Chinese Spies by Roger Faligot
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Chinese Spies is an astounding and unmatched source book on the extraordinary reach of the PRC’s intelligence network. Roger Faligot explains in colourful detail the complex links between the spy agencies, the Party, the Party leaders, Chinese companies and the People’s Liberation Army. At once fascinat ...Show more
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell (updated edition) by David Marr
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
David Marr's explosive bestseller, now expanded and fully updated.In March this year, the nation's most powerful Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, was jailed for child sexual assault. In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man, his career and his ultimate fall. Marr reveals a cleric at ease with power ...Show more
Tulum - Modern Turkish Cuisine by Coskun Uysal
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
Tulum a much acclaimed modern Turkish restaurant in Melbourne, awarded in 2018 its first Chefs Hat by the Melbourne Good Food Guide, is the creation of one of Australia's most exciting new chefs, Coskun Uysal. With 7 chapters representing the 7 diverse regions of Turkey, each with their own seasonal ing ...Show more
Government of No-One by Anon; Ruth Kinna
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Pelican Bks.
A magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial political movements Anarchism routinely gets a bad press. It's usually seen as meaning chaos and disorder -- or even nothing at all. And yet, from Occupy Wall Street to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber, this philosop ...Show more
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Klaus Fuchs knew more nuclear secrets in the last two years of the Second World War than anyone else in Britain. He was taken onto the Manhattan Project in the USA as a trusted physicist - and was the conduit by which knowledge of the highest classification passed to the Soviet Union. When Truman announ ...Show more
Bedlam at Botany Bay by James Dunk
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out through the correspondence of tireless colonial secretaries, the brazen language of lawyers and judges and firebrand politicians ...Show more
Webtopia - The Worldwide Wreck of Tech and How to Make the Net Work by Peter Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s was a world of limited choice, one where we all watched the same television programs and the household phone was at the heart of allnetworks people belonged to: family, school, church and the neighbourhood. The arrival of the internet promised a utopian, creative and democr ...Show more
Wooleen Way: Renewing an Australian Resource by David Pollock
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Australian Memoir
The outback conjures many images that the Australian psyche is built upon. Its grand vistas of sweeping dusty plains and its evocation of a tough pioneering spirit form the foundation of our prosperous culture. But these romantic visions often hide the stark environmental, economic, and social problems ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
Leadership in Turbulent Times: Lessons from the Presidents by Doris Kearns Goodwin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the origin, uncertain growth, and finally, the exercise of fully developed leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity ...Show more
Hate Mail by Mark Morri
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Sydney, 1998. Personal trainer Brett Boyd arrives home to find a package waiting in the driveway. It's addressed to his girlfriend, model and part-time escort Simone Farrow. Hours later, Boyd is in hospital, fighting for his life. The parcel was a bomb that had exploded in his face, leaving him badly di ...Show more