 | The Best Australian Essays, Stories and Poems 2011 | Three Volumes presented of the very best Australian writing of the past year! | $75.00 | |
 | Boyer Lectures 2011
The Idea of Home
| For theBoyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of The Idea of Home. Drawing on her personal experience from being an adolescent pen pal to being a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous countries to being a writer of several award winning books... | $19.95 | |
 | Quarterly Essay Issue 44
Man-made World
Andrew Charlton | "We shouldn't be too hard on ourselves," my German colleague said to me. "We have to be realistic about the problem. The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves." In QE44 , Andrew Charlton exposes the rift that will shape our future - progress versus planet; rich versus poor... | $19.95 | |
 | Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball
The Best of Joe BageantKen Smith | In 2004, at the age of 58, writer Joe Bageant sensed that the internet could give him editorial freedom. Without having to deal with gatekeepers, he began writing about what he was really thinking, and started submitting his essays to left-of-centre websites. Joe's essays soon gained a wide following for his forceful style... | $32.95 | |
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A Point of View
Clive James | This is the book of the radio series. The BBC Radio 4 series, "A Point of View", has been on the air since 2007. Over the years, it's had a variety of presenters - including the national treasure that is Clive James - talking for ten minutes about anything and everything that has captured their imagination, piqued their interest, raised their blood pressure... | $32.99 | |
 | Panic
David Marr
| Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you'll uncover an extraordinary level of fear. Cronulla. Henson. Hanson. Wik. Haneef. The boats...Panic shows all of David Marr's characteristic insight, quick wit and brilliant prose as he cuts through the froth and fury that have kept Australia simmering over the last fifteen years... | $29.95 | |
 | After Words
Paul Keating |
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Books of speeches are rarely published as a compendium of work by one person. After Words is unique in Australian publishing by virtue of its scale and range of subjects, and that all the speeches are the work of one eye and one mind: former Prime Minister Paul Keating. Each speech has been conceptualised, contextualised and crafted by Paul Keating... | $49.95 | |
 | The Sweet Spot
How Australia Made Its Own Luck and Could Now Throw it All Away
Peter Hartcher | Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free - and the only developed nation to have avoided a recession in the past twenty years. So how did it happen and why don't we care? In The Sweet Spot Peter Hartcher takes readers on a vastly entertaining and thought-provoking tour through Australian politics and history... | $29.95 | |
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