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  • A Certain Road

    by Alan Ramsey ...
    When first encountered Bobby Ancroft is 41 years old. Though highly successful in his professional life he is extremely unsettled and, perhaps, just a little too preoccupied with the extent of his unsettled state. At much the same time much the same thing might have been said about Liz Clayton. Meeting either one of them at that time may not have prompted a rush of positive perceptions: he, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Way They Were

    The View from the Hill of the 25 Years That Remade Australia

    by Alan Ramsey ...
    For many years in Australia, reading journalist Alan Ramsey's vitriolic, insightful, and always engaging pieces in the Sydney Morning Herald was a standard feature of Saturday mornings. This book is the compilation of Ramsey's best work, granting ample access to Australia's national parliament and politicians. Reflecting upon how 25 years of national leadership by Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, and John ... Read more

    $27.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Matter of Opinion

    by Alan Ramsey ...
    For more than two decades, from mid-1987 to the end of 2008, no one had greater access to our national parliament and its politicians than Alan Ramsey. Informed, insightful and unafraid, his Wednesday and Saturday columns in The Sydney Morning Herald were always essential reading for many thousands of Australians.Here are 150 of his unflinching views of key political events of that era, among them ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    How the media and Team Rudd brought down the prime minister

    'Don't write crap. Can't be that hard. And when you have written complete crap, then I think you should correct it.' Julia GillardWhen Julia Gillard took the reins of the Australian Labor Party on 24 June 2010 she did so with the goodwill of the majority of her party and a fawning Canberra press gallery. The man she had supplanted, Kevin Rudd, led an isolated band of angry Labor voices at this ... Read more

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  • The Road to Ruin

    the bestselling prequel to Plots and Prayers

    by Niki Savva ...
    Series Book 1 - The Road to Ruin Trilogy
    WINNER OF THE 2017 AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS, GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE 2016 MELBOURNE PRESS CLUB LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD‘There will be no wrecking, no undermining, and no sniping.’–Tony Abbott, 15 September 2015Abbott’s performances in the party-room debates on education and climate change had ranged between woeful and pathetic. He sounded desperate, he was ... Read more

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  • Bulldozed

    Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise

    by Niki Savva ...
    Series Book 3 - The Road to Ruin Trilogy
    WINNER OF THE 2023 ABIA GENERAL NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD‘The gripping inside story of how Scott Morrison went from miracle man to roadkill. Savva portrays a fatally flawed leader who trashed his government, his party, and his legacy.’—Laurie OakesBetween 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Australia was governed by a succession ... Read more

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  • All Out War

    The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class

    by Tim Shipman ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘The best political book of the year’ Andrew Marr‘A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history’ GuardianThe only book to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the EU.This is the acclaimed inside story of the EU referendum in 2016 that takes you ... Read more

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  • The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely

    Australia's Prime Ministers: From Barton to Albanese

    From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the Great Depression. John Curtin faced the ultimate ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Articles of Faith

    by Russell Brand ...
    This collection of Russell Brand's columns for The Guardian not only follows the drama and tumult of the domestic and international football season but also a season in the life of one of our most celebrated comic talents.Brand chronicles events both on and off the pitch as he travels between Upton Park and Hollywood. In his literary riffings, football legends and newfound heroes brush shoulders ... Read more

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  • Plots and Prayers

    Malcolm Turnbull’s demise and Scott Morrison’s ascension

    by Niki Savva ...
    Series Book 2 - The Road to Ruin Trilogy
    In an enthralling sequel to her bestselling The Road to Ruin, Niki Savva reveals the inside story of a bungled coup that overthrew the Liberal prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and installed a surprise successor, Scott Morrison, who went on to take the party to a miraculous electoral victory.On 21 August 2018, 35 Liberal MPs cast their vote against Malcolm Turnbull, effectively signalling the end ... Read more

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  • The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott

    An irreverent take on the political life and times of Australia's twenty eighth prime minister, detailing a litany of questionable calls, miraculous blunders, and inexplicable mistakes.In August 2013, Australia welcomed Tony Abbott as its new prime minister. This promised to be a marriage between responsible government and a nation tired of the endless drama of the Gillard-Rudd years. But then... ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography

    by Mary King ...
    A no-holds-barred story of what it takes to reach the top, and stay there, in the world's most dangerous sport - three day eventing.At the age of forty-seven Mary King won a Team Bronze at the Beijing Olympics. In the two 'Cavaliers' - 'Call Again Cavalier' and 'Imperial Cavalier' - she has two of the very best event horses in the world.Mary King's success in the world of eventing (now officially ... Read more

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