The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Seymour M. Hersh
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama's first term and played a major part in his reelect ...Show more
Meanjin Vol. 73, No. 1 by Zora Sanders (Ed.)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The March 2014 issue of Meanjin is full of outsiders, revolutionaries and dissenters. We discover a lost archive of photographs of Charmian Clift on and George Johnson on Hydra in an essay by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell, while James Douglas take a look at the unique powers of persuasion employed by j ...Show more
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: from Shenanigan to Selfie by John Simpson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word, and the careful poetry needed to construct its ...Show more
Taking to the Skies by Jim Eames
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
So how do you test drive a Jumbo? And why did a civil aviation director once taxi a plane down Perth's main street to attend a ball? From the ridiculous to the downright dangerous, the story of Australian aviation is full of tales of adventure and nation building. It is also a story about tragedy and ec ...Show more
Love in A Sunburnt Country by Jo Jackson King
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Eight fascinating real-life stories of romance in the Australian outback from a gifted storyteller and bestselling author, Jo Jackson King. 'It is always love that keeps or pulls women into the outback towns and properties and those are the stories I want to tell.' The bush can be a difficult place to c ...Show more
What is a Refugee? by William Maley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In a globalised world, wealthy states have the resources to protect refugees
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Strange Days Indeed tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of western politics and culture in the 1970s. Francis Wheen will vividly evoke the characters, events and atmosphere of an era in which the truth was far stranger than even the most ...Show more
Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, and the surprising. The result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history and yarning to mates a ...Show more
Australia's Best Unknown Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
From Jim Haynes, one of Australia's most successful and prolific authors, comes a collection of classic Australian stories, yarns, and furphies. . . all of them unknown. Things are not always as they seem, or as we've been told. Was the Ghan really named after the Afghan traders, and do we really know w ...Show more
No Going Back by Lisa Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
During a routine family holiday to her husband's homeland of Turkey, Lisa Kennedy was suddenly told their marriage was over. Her husband took their six-month-old baby from her care and instructed her to go home to Australia, alone - beginning four years of hell in Istanbul as she fought the case through ...Show more
Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands by Aatish Taseer
$34.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
What does it mean to be a young Muslim in the twenty-first century?When Aatish Taseer receives a challenging letter from his estranged father in Pakistan, he decides to set off on an expedition across the Islamic world in search of his own Islamic heritage, as well as to discover how other young people ...Show more
Inside Pine Gap: The Spy Who Came in from the Desert by David Rosenberg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than forty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and been the target of much public and political controversy. For the first time, a US h ...Show more