Walkley Non-Fiction Award 2008 Longlist
The Bone Man Of Kokoda
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Macmillan )
Kokichi Nishimura was a member of the Japanese Imperial Army. In 1942 he fought along every foot of Kokoda as the Japanese attempted to takea Port Moresby. He was the only man from his company to survive the campaign, an... More »
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )
"...Chloe Hooper has more than done justice to a worthy story. She has produced an Australian classic." Robert Drewe, The Age
This is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee sw... More »
Review
The Content Makers: Understanding the Media in Australia
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Penguin Books )
In The Content Makers Margaret Simons explains the changes taking place in the Australian media. She analyses audiences, our major media organisations, the role of government – and the implications of all of these for ou... More »
Vietnam: The Australian War
$39.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
'War takes a blender to standards and values ... Men come back and spend the rest of their lives trying to find out who they are ...' - Harry Whiteside, who served with the SAS and the Royal Australian Regiment in Vietn...
The Godfather: The Life Of Brian Burke
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
Once touted as a future prime minister of Australia, former WA premier Brian Burke has had a rollercoaster political career. This is the first major biography of this charismatic and influential politician who even out o... More »
American Journeys
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
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 »
Review
Blubberland: The Dangers Of Happiness
$29.95 (Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr )
Renowned architecture writer and former NSW City Councillor Elizabeth Farrelly broadens her scope to examine Western society’s addiction to acquiring ‘stuff’. ‘Blubber’, by her definition, is anything spare or surplus. I... More »
Other People's Country
$24.95 (Paperback book / Abc Books )
When comfortable housewife and mother of six adult children,
Maureen Helen reached her late fifties, she decided she wanted to
do something a little different.
Spurred on by an adventure in Thailand, she decides to use ... More »
An Exacting Heart: The Story Of Hephzibah Menuhin
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
Hephzibah Menuhin had a musical gift most people only dream of. Her refusal to be defined by it led her to reinvent herself not once, but twice in her remarkable life.
Born in 1920 in San Francisco she was, like her worl... More »
Voices From The Fortress: Stories Of Survival From Terezin Concentration Camp
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Abc Books )
Paul Rea uncovered the extraordinary story of an Australian ex-prisoner of war who had been illegally thrown into a Nazi concentration camp called Terazin in Czechoslovakia, now known as the 'Living Grave'. This soldier ... More »
Thirsty Country Options For Australians
$27.95 (Paperback book / Jacana )
Australia is the driest inhabited continent in the world and current global warming forecasts are for it to become drier still but what do we do about it? Schemes abound but will they work, can we afford them and are the... More »