Altruism

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The concern for the well-being of others could be the saving grace of the 21st century. Matthieu Ricard’s Altruism, an erudite, brilliantly ranging synthesis of philosophy, psychology and ages old wis …

Fat Wars

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We are facing a gathering health crisis of epic proportions. The crisis is obesity and the diseases linked to it – hypertension, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. While multinational drug companies …

The Unravelling

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for voluntee …

Countrymen

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The rescue of the Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in October 1943 is a unique exception to the tragic history of the Holocaust. Over fourteen harrowing days, as they were helped, hidden and protecte …

Cricket As I See It

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Allan Border is an elder statesman of Australian cricket. In the twenty years since he retired as captain he’s been one of the game’s closest and most astute observers. His views on cricket – based on …

Fighter Pilot

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Mac Tucker, or ‘Serge’ to use his callsign, is one of an elite group of men trained to fly F-18 jets. Now, for the first time, Serge takes you behind the scenes of the fighter pilot world to reveal wh …

Heaven Forbid

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In the sunny jacaranda-leafed garden of his Johannesburg home, six year old Martin Donally is king of a small and perfect world. It is 1948 and life is full of childish rhymes and his colourful extend …

I, Migrant

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Despite being nearly killed by a kangaroo and almost lynched and run out of town after his comedy was taken far too seriously, Sami Shah is very happy to be living in Australia. He had fronted his own …

Jimfish

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In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and ther …

Merv Hughes' 104 Cricket Legends

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Understanding cricket and cricketers has been a lifelong quest for Merv Hughes. – How much can a roommate take before events deteriorate into shaving cream at ten paces? – How seriously should senior …

Night After Night

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Leo Defford doesn’t believe in ghosts. But, as the head of an independent production company, he does believe in high-impact TV. Defford hires journalist Grayle Underhill to research the history of Kn …

Painted Horses

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In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild.Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her w …

Small Circle of Beings

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEDamon Galgut’s first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home.An exquisite early work by the Booker Pr …

The Baby Boom

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The Baby Boom – over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, ‘We are the world.’What’s so funny about peace, love …

The Quarry

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEA breathtaking parable of death and deception from the Booker Prize-winning author.Damon Galgut’s ‘lost’ novel, written in 1995 but unpublished outsi …

The Spy Catchers

For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia’s domestic intelligence organisation …