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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
Frank Dikotter
$29.99In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikotter returns to eight of the most effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate cultivation of a shroud of mystery through iron censorship, these d ... read more
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In an Australian Light
Jo Turner
$59.99Imagined as a celebration of the distinctive beauty of Australian light, Allen's book reveals how light shapes the land from the coast to the outback . Wind-etched rocks, patterns in sand. Teal oceans. Surfers, slick in their wetsuits against the mor ... read more
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Out of Darkness, Shining Light
Petina Gappah
$29.99This is the story of the body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone - and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles so that he could be buried in his own country. In Gappah's radical novel, it is those ... read more
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Penny Wong: The Biography
Margaret Simons
$34.99Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from climate change to foreign affairs, she is admired by members of parliament and the public from across the political divi ... read more
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Red Hand: Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack Irish
Peter Temple
$32.99Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews.
When he died in March 2018 there was an unfinished J ... read more-
Superpower: Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity
Ross Garnaut
$29.99We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the natural home for an increasing proportion of global industry. But how do we make this happen? Australia's leading thinker about clim ... read more
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Tell Me Why
Archie Roach
$49.99Roach was only two years old when he was forcibly removed from his family. Brought up by a series of foster parents until his early teens, his world imploded when he received a letter that spoke of a life he had no memory of. Archie's story is an ext ... read more
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
$24.99The first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us. Zuboff explores this new capitalism's impact on society, politics, business, and tec ... read more
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Best Australian Science Writing 2019
Bianca Nogrady, Lisa Harvey-smith
$29.99This ninth edition of The Best Australian Science Writing showcases the most powerful, insightful and brilliant essays and poetry from Australian writers and scientists. It roams the length and breadth of science, revealing how a ceramic artist is he ... read more
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Bruny
Heather Rose
$32.99A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East and the UN. Daesh has a thoroughfare to the sea and China is Australia's newest ally. When a bomb goes off in remote Tasmania, Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her broth ... read more
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Coventry
Rachel Cusk
$32.99Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism, with pieces on gender, politics and writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg, this collection of essays offers new insights on the themes at the heart of Cusk's work. ... read more
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Damascus
Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99Christos Tsiolkas' novel takes as its subject the events surrounding the birth and establishment of the Christian church. Based around the gospels and letters of St Paul, Damascus explores the themes that have inhabited Tsiolkas as a writer: class, r ... read more
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Field of Poppies
Carmel Bird
$29.99Keen to escape the pressures of city life, Marsali Swift and her husband William are drawn to the seemingly tranquil small town of Muckleton. There is time to read, garden and befriend the locals. Yet one night they are robbed, and soon after a neigh ... read more
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Fly Already
Etgar Keret
$27.99A man is bribed to step into a courtroom to call an unknown defendant a murderer. A rich, lonely man hits on the idea of buying up people's birthdays so he'll always have friends calling. A writer agrees to write a story starring his friend so said f ... read more
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Grand Union
Zadie Smith
$32.99A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid the broken shards of his life, unable to move ... read more
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Heide
Pi.o.
$39.95Heide is an epic poem that explores the influence of art, poetry and social class on the psyche, with a particular focus on the artists gathered around Sunday and John Reed at Heide. It begins with the foundation of Melbourne, and traverses the poets ... read more
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