Books
In the Country of Country
Nicholas Dawidoff
Format: Paperback
In his critically acclaimed book, In the Country of Country, Nicholas Dawidoff travels to the origins of country music and talks to the musicians who created this original American art form
Olivier
Terry Coleman
Written with uncensored access to Olivier's personal papers, love letters and diaries, a landmark biography of the greatest actor of the twentieth century
Building A Better Business
Patrick Dixon
Format: Paperback
How to create greater passion for your business, by building a better future for you, your customers, workers and their families, shareholders, communities and those beyond
White Savage
Fintan O'Toole, and Books editor, print Laurence Mackin
A dramatic, exciting and tragic book about the Irish adventurer who held the fate of America and the British Empire in his hands
Beyond Right and Left
David McKnight
Maps the death of politics based on the traditional opposition between Left and Right, and offers a provocative argument for the emergence of a new values-based politics in Australia.
Back to Bologna
Michael Dibdin
The thrilling new Aurelio Zen mystery from the bestselling author of Medusa
Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History
Bain Attwood
Format: Paperback
One of Australia's leading Aboriginal historians takes us to the heart of the 'history war' over our Aboriginal past. Bain Attwood argues that controversy over interpretations of our Aboriginal past has never been so intense, and never mattered more.
Legion
David Harsent
Format: Paperback
The title-sequence of this new collection of poems offers a report from an unnamed war in which various images of conflict accrue without cohering, as if the reader is locked inside the crisis together with the protagonists.
A Prayer for Blue Delaney
Kirsty Murray
Format: Paperback
A Prayer for Blue Delaney follows the outback adventures of orphaned Colm, who runs away from the cruelties of Bindoon Boys' Home and goes in search of a family of his own. Set in the 1950s.
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