Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clarke
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political
In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work that ...Show more
Tony Speaks!: The Wisdom of the Abbott... by BLACK INC.
$9.99 AUD
Category: Political
You've seen him wearing speedos, kissing babies, driving a mining truck and chatting to his flock. But who is the real Tony Abbott? As the Bible says, by his words you shall know him. He's a concerned parent: 'I won't be rushing out to get my daughters vaccinated (against cervical cancer).' A philanthro ...Show more
Everybody Matters by Mary Robinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
One of the most inspiring women of our age, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world. Now, for the first time, she reveals what lies behind the vision, strength and determination that has helped her to achieve so much for human rights around the globe. She describes the upbringing w ...Show more
Tales From The Political Trenches by Maxine McKew
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
An intimate account of one of the most tumultuous periods in Australian politics as well as a tale of personal change, this memoir discusses what went wrong during the 2010 electionswhich left the Labor party clinging to the wreckage and forced into minority government. Bringing a reporters eye and an i ...Show more
I Confess: Revelations in Exile by Kooshyar KARIMI
$32.95 AUD
Category: Political
This is a memoir by Sydney-based doctor and writer/translator, Kooshyar Karimi, who in 2000 managed to flee, with his family, certain torture and death which stalked him on a daily basis in his native Iran. Karimis sin was his Jewishness and the fact that he helped desperate girls and women who had been ...Show more
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace by Kofi A. Annan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
Over forty years of service to the United Nations - the last ten as Secretary-General - Kofi Annan has been at the centre of the major geopolitical events of our time. Drawing on his recollections of major figures from Tony Blair to George W. Bush, Yasser Arafat to Yitzhak Rabin, Saddam Hussein to Nelso ...Show more
The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements by Aung San Suu Kyi
$19.95 AUD
Category: Political
Aung San Suu Kyi is known for her courageous stand for democracy and human rights inside Burma (now Myanmar). Forced to endure many years of house arrest by the military junta, she continues to act as a focus for change inside a country that is ruled by one of the most hard-line dictatorships in the wor ...Show more
The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political
Handpicked in 1999 by the 'Family' surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience beyond having served as deputy mayor of St Petersburg, seemed like the perfect choice in the eyes of an oligarchy bent on moulding ...Show more
Amateur by Edward Klein
$38.95 AUD
Category: Political
Klein, who is known for getting the inside scoop on everyone from the Kennedys to the Clintons, reveals never-before-published details about the Obama administration's political inner workings, as well as Barack and Michelle's personal lives.
A Premier's State by Steve Bracks; Ellen Whinnett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
"'In May 1994, while I was going through pre-selection for the seat of Williamstown, I sat down at my desk at home and I wrote a note. I was thirty-nine years old and in that note I mapped out what I hoped would happen in my life.' By the time he was forty-eight, Steve Bracks had achieved the goal he'd ...Show more
Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo
$28.00 AUD
Category: Political
Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on The Sopranos, becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey. Now, after 240 hours of face-to-face interviews with Kuklinski and his w ...Show more
Blasphemy by Asia Bibi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political
Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45° and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up a cup and takes a long drink of cool water. She refills the cup, ...Show more