Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow: Short Black 12 by Galarrwuy Yunupingu
$7.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Short Blacks
I will continue my work on my land, building a future. It is the only thing that is certain to me now and I want to advance while I can. I am trying to light the fire in our young men and women. We are setting fires to our own lives as we really should, and the flame will burn and intensify - an immense ...Show more
Prosper: A Voyage at Sea: Short Black 8 by Simon Leys
$7.00 AUD
Category: European
A big liner, brightly lit, passes us one or two cable-lengths ahead. 'Ow They are guzzling champagne but cannot see what's in front of them ' grumbles Etienne, who has the helm and puts Prosper back on course. Our wooden boat, which one long wave can carry, is a mere cork in the wake of that ship, which ...Show more
The One Day by David Malouf
$7.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Short Blacks (Number 7)
'Silence was a deeply established tradition. Men used it as a form of self-protection; it saved those who had experienced the horrors of war from the emotional trauma of experiencing it all over again in the telling. And it saved women and children, back home, from the terrible knowledge of what they ha ...Show more
The Brave Ones: East Timor, 1999: Short Black 5 by John Birmingham
$6.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Short Blacks
'As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage ...Show more
Booze Territory Short Black 6 by Anna Krien
$7.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Short Blacks
On a Tuesday morning, I make my way to the Gap View Hotel for a drinking session starting at 10 a.m. I'm told this is one of Alice Springs' three notorious 'animal bars' ... As I wander around, a Sudanese security guard approaches me, his face concerned. Am I lost? he wants to know. In a way, I am. I do ...Show more
Map: Exploring the World (HB) by Daniel Huffman (Contribution by); Phaidon Press Editors; Laura Imaoka (Contribution by); John Hessler
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Map: Exploring the Worldbrings together more than 300 fascinating maps from the birth of cartography to cutting-edge digital maps of the twenty-fist century. The book ...Show more
History's People: Personalities and the Past by Margaret MacMillan
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
In this year's highly anticipated Massey Lectures, internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the memorable figures of the past, women and men, who have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. The actions of Hitler, Sta ...Show more
All Fall Down by Matthew Condon
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Three Kings part 3
The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon's bestselling true crime trilogy. In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to the operation of The Joke, a highly organised system of graft payments from ...Show more
Church of Spies: the Pope's Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
A radical reinterpretation of the wartime Pope. Born Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII is perhaps the most vilified and detested Pope in modern history. Pius XII and the Vatican are thought to have appeased Hitler and betrayed international Jewry by staying silent during the Holocaust. The accusation has f ...Show more
Australia's Second Chance by George Megalogenis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
The bestselling author of The Australian Moment asks the most important question confronting the country right now - how do we maintain our winning streak? Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's ...Show more
Citizens of London: the Americans who stood with Britain in its darkest,finest hour by Lynne Olson
$28.00 AUD
Category: War
This enthralling study is the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain. It brings out of history's shadows the three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking news reporter; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionair ...Show more