The Boys' Club by Michael Warner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
The Boys' Club is the must-read inside story behind the power and politics of the AFL, Australia's biggest sport. Revealing how a fledgling state administrative body evolved into the Australian Football League and its meteoric rise to become one of the richest and most powerful organisations in the land ...Show more
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
A critical and radical biography of the last great Imperialist The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to be magisterial, has adopted many of his hero's man ...Show more
The Art of Coalition: The Howard Government Experience, 1996–2007 by David W. Lovell (Editor); Andrew Blyth (Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
Despite being described as ‘a remarkably successful partnership’ by John Howard and a ‘triumph of trust’ by his counterpart, Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson, the art of coalition government is a delicate (and sometimes difficult) balancing of policy, politics and personalities. ...Show more
Danger On Our Doorstep by Jim Molan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
An unsettling assessment of how - and when - war with China might break out and the consequences for the world, from bestselling author, ex-major general Jim Molan What are Australia's options in confronting a rising and belligerent China?For the first time in nearly 80 years, war on our doorstop is not ...Show more
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year - An Economist Book of the Year Now With a New Afterword "A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November.... A magisterial account of the money and violence b ...Show more
The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten
$65.00 AUD
Category: Political
The diaries of the last British Governor, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, fr ...Show more
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto by China Mieville
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document- the Communist Manifesto. In 1848 a strange political tract was published by two emigres from Germany. Marx and Engels's apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of ...Show more
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
The shocking story of the legal persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the dangerous implications for the whistleblowers of the future. In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture ...Show more
Liberalism and its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher.
Ego: Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberal Party's Civil War by AARON PATRICK
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Malcolm Turnbull's campaign against Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party is one of the greatest acts of revenge in Australian political history. This account explores the egos, deception and thwarted power that has left a trail of personal destruction across the political world. Friends have been turned ...Show more
The Lucky Laundry: longlisted for 2022 Walkley Award and 2022 winner of Financial Crime Fighter Award by Nathan Lynch
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
How the Aussie economy got hooked on the world's dirtiest cash. In today's ruthless world of organised crime, the best criminals aren't foolish enough to steal money out of banks. They wear tailored suits, carry briefcases, and discreetly slip money into banks. Bigwigs, oligarchs and crime syndicates r ...Show more
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new i ...Show more