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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Victoria Finlay
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means to us.
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Ed Coper
From fringe conspiracy theories to ‘alternative facts’, a timely look at how we arrived in the ‘fake news’ era.
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Katy Barnett,Jeremy Gans
An illuminating and entertaining history of the law’s treatment of animals
John Fitzgerald
Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in China? And…
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Shashi Tharoor
There are over a billion Indians alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, one that is central to the identity of all who belong…
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Carl Erik Fisher
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction-a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives-by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family…
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John Keane
In an age of fake news and half-truths, the radical potential of democracy is more important than ever, as this nimble, illuminating history by a celebrated political theorist reveals.
Phillip Deery
Phillip Deery’s Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War shines a powerful new light on the history of ASIO and raises important and enduring questions about the nature and…
Kristy Campion
From Irish revolutionaries to the Christchurch massacre and the rise of right wing extremism, Chasing Shadows uncovers the long and brutal history of terrorism in Australia.
Laurie Penny
An urgent, hopeful, and unapologetically radical new book about consent, democracy, desire, and the future of sexual politics from award-winning writer Laurie Penny.
At a time of deepening inequality, Class in Australia brings together a range of new and original research for a timely examination of class relations, labour exploitation, and the changing…
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Anna Clark
A bold and expansive history that traces the changing and contested project of Australia’s national story. You will think about this country differently after reading this book.
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Amy Remeikis
On Reckoning tells of the moment when the personal became very political, when rape became the national conversation.
Stuart Macintyre
The long awaited second volume in Stuart Macintyre’s definitive history of the Communist Party of Australia.
Shon Faye
An era-defining, agenda-setting call for trans liberation which will reshape our current conversation on transgender rights
Mr. Bill Hayes
From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did (SF Chronicle)–a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history…
Kimberly Jones
An essential breakdown of the economic and social injustices faced by Black people, based on the viral video by writer, director and political activist Kimberly Jones
Jan Morris
Published one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris’ Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chroniclers of the Twentieth Century.
Mary Gaitskill
A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.
Johann Hari
Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back?
Jackie Huggins
A new edition of seminal Tiddaist classic by Murri historian and activist Jackie Huggins, featuring timely and compelling speeches and essays.
Brice Faraut
Saved by the Siesta explains how siestas work and the remarkable role they can play in overcoming the destructive effects on the brain and the body of a shortage of…
Anne Helen Petersen,Charlie Warzel
A game-changing book about the revolutionary potential of working from home, by two experts who work - and live - together.
Olivia Yallop
Traditional media is over. The internet reigns. And in the attention economy, influencers are royalty. But who are they … and how do you become one?
Mike Sielski
The Rise is an inside look at Kobe Bryant’s life, one of the most captivating basketball players of all time, with never-before-seen material.
Paul Mason
How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right
Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottom provides an insider’s view of the workings of international film funding and distribution
David Kilcullen,Greg Mills
The Ledger identifies and assesses the failures of the West’s approach to Afghanistan after 9/11 - military, diplomatic, political and developmental
Siri Hustvedt
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing…
Elizabeth Drayson
An illustrated account of the historical city of Granada for the Anglophone world.
Joseph J. Ellis
A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it.
DK
Delve into the social and cultural history of 100 of the world’s most important cities.
Dan Jones
Dan Jones’s epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.
Susan Orlean
A delightful and entertaining collection of a lifetime of musings, meditations and in-depth profiles about animals, by the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book.
Arthur der Weduwen,Andrew Pettegree
Princes, collectors, bookworms and thieves: the extraordinary story of the library, from Alexandria to the age of Google.
Gideon Haigh
Few journalists exemplify the creed ‘without fear or favour’ like Gideon Haigh. Shelf Life selects from twenty-one years of writing on myriad subjects by one of our clearest thinkers, sharpest…
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Guy Rundle
With sharp wit and a discerning eye, political commentator Guy Rundle enlightens and entertains, drawing back the curtain on the iconic moments in Australian politics of the 2010s
Jess Hill
Tracing the impact of Australia’s #MeToo moment
Alasdair McGregor
Alasdair McGregor traces the rise and fall of the Australian continent, from mountains of ice and fire to those of iron and those with their heads in the clouds
David Graeber, David Wengrow
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
Casey Michel
An explosive investigation into how the United States of America built one of the largest illicit offshore finance systems in the world.
Richard Firth-Godbehere
A sweeping exploration of the ways in which emotions shaped the course of human history, and how our experience and understanding of emotions have evolved along with us.
Thomas Piketty
A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Jessica Nordell
Discover how we can all work to end one of the most corrosive issues of our time: unconscious bias.
Noel Pearson
Mission traces a life of politics, ideas and inspiring words.
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
The voices Australia should hear
Tony Wellington
The era was by turns fab, groovy, cool, far out, way-out, hip, boss, outta sight, right-on and a blast, man: enough to make everyone freak out!
Bernard Keane
A timely, intelligent dive into the new culture of political deceit in Australia and the world.
