Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2009 Non-Fiction Shortlist
Drawing the Global Colour Line
$36.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
"[This] is a pioneering account of the transnational production of whiteness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A work remarkable both for its international breadth and for its sensitivity to local par... More »
American Journeys
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Only in America, the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything, are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys in 2005 and 2006, acclaimed author Don Watson set out... More »
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The Henson Case
$24.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
The Australian Prime Minister called them 'absolutely revolting'. Their removal from a Sydney art gallery was hailed by the Daily Telegraph as a 'Victory for Decency'. Cate Blanchett and members of the arts community cla... More »
House Of Exile
$32.99 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
In 1933 the prominent author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner Nelly Kroeger were forced to flee Germany, finding refuge in France and later, in great despair, Los Angeles. There Nelly committed suicid... More »
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Doing Life: A Biography Of Elizabeth Jolley
$34.95 (Paperback book / Univ. West Aust Press )
Although she started writing early in life it was not until her fifties that Elizabeth Jolley received the recognition her talent deserved. She won The Age Book of the Year Award on three occasions as well as the Miles F... More »
Van Diemen's Land: A History
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
'The most significant colonial history since The Fatal. In re-imagining Australia's past, it invents a new future.' - Richard Flanagan
'The first ecologically based social history of colonial Australia, showing how walla... More »
Gough Whitlam: A Moment In History
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Miegunyah Press )
This moment was not his alone, nor could it ever have come about without him…Gough Whitlam turned to Graham Freudenberg, touched him lightly on the shoulder, saying, 'It's been a long road, Comrade, but we're there', and... More »
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country
'The country's finest work of literature so far this century. A haunting moral maze, described with such intimate observation and exquisite restraint that I kept... More »
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