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BARWICK by MARR DAVID
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'The brilliant biography of one of Australia's most powerful men a special book.' The Age'The best biography written by an Australian; the best biography written about an Australian.' Sir Richard KirbyFor forty years Sir Garfield Barwick stood at the centre of power in Australia.
Best Australian Essays 2008 by MARR David
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
These essays capture and illuminate the themes of an eventful year, demonstrating the quality of our writers across a range of topics as well as the vitality of the essay as a form of commentary, analysis and exploration.
Dark Victory: How a Government Lied Its Way to Political Triumph by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
They put lives at risk. They twisted the law. They drew the military into the heart of an election campaign. They muzzled the press. They misused intelligence services, defied the United Nations, antagonised Indonesia and bribed poverty stricken Pacific states. They closed Australia to refugees - and wo ...Show more
Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power by David Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
"InFaction Man, David Marr traces the career of a Labor warrior. In dazzling style, he shows how this brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party in pursuit of an ambition he set himself in childhood- to be Prime Minister of Australia. Bill Shorten is now a ...Show more
Holding The Man - Film Tie in by Timothy Conigrave; David Marr (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As uplifting as it is moving, Holding the Man is a funny, sad and celebratory account of growing up gay, and a powerful love story. Now a major feature film directed by Neil Armfield and starring Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Kerry Fox, Camilla Ah Kin and Sarah Snook with Guy Pearce and Anthony LaPaglia. In t ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time. My Co ...Show more
Panic by David Marr
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you'll uncover an extraordinary level of panic about politics, art, sexuality, drugs, boat people, protest, religion and terror. Through it all, David Marr has stood tall to question the hubris, ignorance and decepti ...Show more
Panic by David Marr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Panic (noun). A sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour. Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you'll uncover an extraordinary level of fear. Cronulla. Henson. Hanson. Wik. Haneef. The boats. Panic shows all of Da ...Show more
Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A biography of Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, author of more than a dozen novels and many other books, a spokesman for (and against) an Australia he both hated and loved. The author secured White's co-operation in tracking down sources and using private documentary material, bu ...Show more
Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster . . .' Patrick WhitePatrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogr ...Show more
Patrick White: A life by David Marr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster ...' Patrick White Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogra ...Show more