Small Circle of Beings
Damon GalgutRRP: £8.99
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 …
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The Baby Boom
P.J. O'RourkeRRP: £9.99
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 Spy Catchers
David HornerFor 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 …
Victoria's Cross
Gary MeadRRP: £9.99
LONGLISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZEWhen 25-year old Private Johnson Beharry won the Victoria Cross in 2005 for bravery under fire in Iraq, he was the first person to win Britain’s highest militar …
Charles Bean's Gallipoli
Phillip BradleyCharles Bean and Gallipoli are forever closely bound. Serving as the official Australian war correspondent from the landing to the evacuation, Charles Bean was able to dedicate his days and nights to …
Flight Command
John OddieRRP: £14.99
As a farm boy in western Victoria, John Oddie would watch RAAF jets pass overhead as he ploughed hay fields, wondering what it would be like to fly such a machine. Thirty-five years later – having flo …
Broken Nation
Joan BeaumontRRP: £16.99
The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined that nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac ‘legend’. But it was a …
The Forgotten General
Jock VennellRRP: £9.99
The Forgotten General highlights the courage, intelligence and determination of an exceptional New Zealander. Major-General Sir Andrew Russell was a distinguished soldier and a dedicated leader of men …
The Luck of the Irish
Babette SmithRRP: £12.99
The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That’s how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the New South Wales coast in 183 …
The Nullarbor Kid
Ray GillelandRRP: £9.99
‘If you had worked with them, if you had driven with them, if you had had a drink with them, if you had helped them when broken down, you would have been proud to be one of them and called them mates. …
Thunder Run
David ZucchinoRRP: £7.99
Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second (‘Tusker’) Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghda …
Australians Volume 3
Thomas KeneallyAustralia emerged from WW1 into a decade of profound change, characterised by a revolution in behaviour amongst the young; by the first great age of consumerism; by the new and increasingly sophistica …
This Divided Island
Samanth SubramanianRRP: £12.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stu …
First Footprints
Scott CaneRRP: £14.99
Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia’s northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic mammals roamed the p …
For the Sake of Argument
Christopher HitchensRRP: £12.99
The test of this kind of book is for the reader to be able to open it anywhere and be drawn into the argument; it’s a test that Hitchens passes time and time again… He can be devilishly funny, but h …
Prepared for the Worst
Christopher HitchensRRP: £25.00
‘I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive’ — Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens is widely recognized as hav …
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