This brilliant, acerbic, warm-hearted and wickedly hilarious book covers an astonishing range of subjects - including the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Tampa crisis, the slaughter in East Timor, the 2001 federal election and all recent state elections, travelling in Israel, the deaths of Richard Wherrett, Don Dunstan, Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Phar Lap, conservation campaigns in Tasmania, and the controversial election of President George W. Bush - and is rich with unflinching close-ups of the well-beloved and hated figures who have helped make the world we are now in.
Surely no-one writes as well as Bob Ellis on Australian politics and society. Full of his characteristic irony, sweetness, hilarity, sadness and honourable nostalgia, Goodbye Babylon is for everyone keen to know what actually happened, and why.
Bob Ellis
Suddenly, Last Winter: An Election Diary
$32.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Just as Bob Ellis's last book One Hundred Days of Summer, about Tony Abbott's ascension to the Liberal leadership, was ready to hit the shelves, the nation was stunned to witness Labor suddenly call time on Kevin Rudd's ... Buy or find out more →
One Hundred Days Of Summer
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Written in Bob Ellis's inimitable style, this is a very personal book about a period of intense political change in Australia. Ellis's diary-style narrative starts on 12 November, 2009 (when Rhys Muldoon picks Ellis up f... Buy or find out more →
And So It Went: New Thoughts In A Year Of Change
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Viking
From the suicide bombing of Glasgow Airport and the flooding of England to the horse flu and the Chinese earthquake and the Bhutto assassination, from the rise of Turnbull and Rudd to the slow disintegration of Howard, R... Buy or find out more →
Goodbye Babylon
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
This brilliant, acerbic, warm-hearted and wickedly hilarious book covers an astonishing range of subjects - including the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Tampa crisis, the slaughter in East Timor, the 2001 federal el... Buy or find out more →
The Capitalism Delusion
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The collapse of capitalism in 2008 incensed Bob Ellis to write this book in a white heat in one month! He gives facts, figures, arguments and anecdotes to show the GFC was inevitable.
The Capitalism Delusion is sobering ... Buy or find out more →