Political Biographies & Memoirs
The Good, The Bad And The Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Good drinkers, bad swimmers and unlikely heroes
Since Australia’s birth in 1901, twenty-seven politicians have run the national show. Their time at the top has ranged from eight days for Frank Forde to eighteen years for... Buy or find out more →
After Words: Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches
$59.99$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
A unique volume of speeches and occasional pieces written entirely by former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Books of speeches are rarely published as a compendium of work by one person. After Words is unique in Australian ... Buy or find out more →
Tony Abbott: A Man's Man
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
'If he's elected as our PM in the future I would be very scared for women everywhere.' — Mia Freedman
When Julia Gillard — who was unmarried and childless, and an atheist — became prime minister in 2010, Tony Abbott wa... Buy or find out more →
Joseph Lyons: The People's Prime Minister
$49.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
This landmark book re-establishes Lyons as one of Australias most capable and popular leaders and reminds us of why he was the first Australian prime minister to win and survive three consecutive elections. A Tasmanian L... Buy or find out more →
Hawke: The Prime Minister
$10.00 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Since its first publication in 1982, Blanche d'Alpuget's Robert J Hawke: A Biography has remained the benchmark by which other political biographies are measured.
Hawke: The Prime Minister begins as Bob Hawke wrestles th... Buy or find out more →
Lazarus Rising
$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
He has been one of Australia’s most controversial prime ministers, leading the Liberal Party to victory over four elections and becoming the second-longest-serving PM in the nation’s history. John Winston Howard is the f... Buy or find out more →
Black Dog Daze: Public Life, Private Demons
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Andrew Robb lived with an unspoken fear that what he passed off as 'not being good in the mornings' was something darker: a black dog whose daily visit lasted longer as the years passed. Worried about stigmas and letting... Buy or find out more →
Struggle For Freedom: Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Just like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of Burma′s democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi has become an icon for freedom - throughout the world, she is associated with a peaceful struggl... Buy or find out more →
Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
When Lindsay Tanner resigned in 2010 as the ALP’s federal minister for finance and member for Melbourne, having had an 18-year career as an MP, he notably managed to retire with his reputation for integrity intact. In Si... Buy or find out more →
Known And Unknown: A Memoir
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Penguin Group Usa
Like Donald Rumsfeld, "Known and Unknown" pulls no punches.
With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush ... Buy or find out more →
America By Heart: Reflections On Family, Faith And Flag
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin delivers an intimate and personal look at the woman behind the public servant. In her #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Going Rogue—the bestselling nonfiction book of 2009—Palin gave... Buy or find out more →
True Compass: A Memoir
$50.00$15.95 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the United States' history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senat... Buy or find out more →
Confessions of a Faceless Man: Inside Campaign 2010
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Paul Howes has been branded as one of Labor’s ‘faceless’ men, the union boss accused of removing Kevin Rudd from the highest office in the land when the polls started to wobble, the kingmaker (or should that be queenmake... Buy or find out more →
The Bridge: The Life and Rise Of Barack Obama
$39.99$0.00 – Trade paperback / Pan Macmillan
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of King of the World, the first full biography of Barack Obama and a defining moment in American - and global - history.
The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great st... Buy or find out more →
A Journey
$59.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / Hutchinson
In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end 18 years of Conservative government. He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime minist... Buy or find out more →
The Making Of Julia Gillard
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
The first biography of Australia's first female Prime Minister.
Julia Gillard has always been an exceptional figure in Australian politics, widely admired by her adversaries as well as in the electorate. And now she is a... Buy or find out more →
My Life
$59.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, has succeeded.
For the first... Buy or find out more →
Living History
$27.95 – Paperback book / Headline
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and ... Buy or find out more →
The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream
$26.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
The Audacity of Hope is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary man. If Barack Obama is elected as the first black President of the United States he will dramatically change the face that his country presents to the wo... Buy or find out more →
Kevin Rudd: The Biography (Updated Edition)
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
When Kevin Rudd became Leader of the Opposition in December 2006, dramatically ousting Kim Beazley, few Australians knew who he was. Eleven months later - and even more dramatically - he ousted John Howard to become Prim... Buy or find out more →
The Costello Memoirs
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Last year's bestseller now in paperback, with a new chapter on the Global Financial Crisis and beyond.
The Costello Memoirs is a frank and fearless look inside the engine-room of the Liberal Party and the Howard Governme... Buy or find out more →
Going Rogue: An American Life
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world.
As chief executive ... Buy or find out more →
Hawke: The Early Years
$39.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Blanche d'Alpuget's classic 1982 biography of Robert J.
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Blanche d'Alpuget's classic 1982 biography of Robert J. Hawke remains one of the finest examples of political biography in A... Buy or find out more →
Battlelines (Updated Edition)
$34.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Battlelines is a frank examination of the way forward for the Liberal Party.
'This is a genuine attempt to reassess Liberalism in contemporary Australia from the point of view of a vigorous, genuine social conservative w... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 38: Power Trip: The Political Journey Of Kevin Rudd
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Power Trip shows the making of Kevin Rudd, prime minister. In Eumundi, where Rudd was born, David Marr investigates the formative tragedy of his life: the death of his father and what came after. He tracks the transforma... Buy or find out more →
On The Record
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Hachette
Following POWER PLAYS, this is a new collection of Laurie Oakes' political commentary, comparing new writing with old situations.
Laurie Oakes has been writing about politics, power and politicians for over forty years. ... Buy or find out more →
Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs
$44.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Winner of the 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction and Book of the Year.
In this part memoir and part authorised biography, Malcolm Fraser talks about his time in public life.
'Malcolm Fraser. . . repays the... Buy or find out more →
Hawke: The Prime Minister
$59.99$9.95 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Since its first publication in 1982, Blanche d'Alpuget's Robert J Hawke: A Biography has remained the benchmark by which other political biographies are measured.
Hawke: The Prime Minister begins as Bob Hawke wrestles th... Buy or find out more →
Daughter Of The East
$24.95 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
Beautiful and charismatic, the daughter of one of Pakistan's most popular leaders -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, hanged by General Zia in 1979 -- Benazir Bhutto is not only the first woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, ... Buy or find out more →