$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books / ISBN:9780143010425)
Down To The Crossroads: On The Trail Of The 2008 US Presidential Election
The surprise hit of last December was The Battle for Bennelong, Margot Saville’s on-the-road, campaign trail account of the nail-biting 2007 federal election. This year, Crikey correspondent Guy Rundle gives us the play-by-play scoop on America’s historic 2008 election. Read it and revel in Obama’s ousting of George W. Bush’s Republican party, as represented by John McCain and the ever-amusing (if horrifying) Sarah Palin. It’s the election that Aaron Sorkin couldn’t have scripted better, as observed by one of Australia’s savviest political tragics.
The Age Book of the Year Winners 2009
Down To The Crossroads: On The Trail Of The 2008 US Presidential Election
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The surprise hit of last December was The Battle for Bennelong, Margot Saville’s on-the-road, campaign trail account of the nail-biting 2007 federal election. This year, Crikey correspondent Guy Rundle gives us the play-... More »
Things We Didn't See Coming
$24.95 (Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing )
It’s the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic and paranoid, conflicting emotions.
The ensuing journey spans decades and off... More »
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Better Than God
$29.99 (Paperback book / Picador )
Peter Porter is one of the pre-eminent Australian poets of his generation and a major figure in the landscape of British poetry. The publication of Better Than God will coincide with his 80th birthday. He has received th... More »
The Age Book of the Year Shortlist 2009 Non-Fiction
Down To The Crossroads: On The Trail Of The 2008 US Presidential Election
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The surprise hit of last December was The Battle for Bennelong, Margot Saville’s on-the-road, campaign trail account of the nail-biting 2007 federal election. This year, Crikey correspondent Guy Rundle gives us the play-... 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
$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 »
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Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, 1831-36 Sent to Cambridge to join the clergy, the young Darwin emerged with a passion for naturalism and an invitation to sail on a naval survey vessel to South America, New Zealand and Austra... More »
The Red Highway
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
A key to unlock the heart of the country.
This is the story of a quest – a journey down the red highway.
On returning from a war zone, Nicolas Rothwell begins to explore the deserts and towns, sleepy coastline and hidd... More »
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