In an intensely personal account, this chronicle draws on a young conscript and his comrades’ lives before, during, and after the Vietnam War. Offering an Australian perspective of the trauma t
In this indescribably moving collection, the 31 members of the Sydney Child Holocaust Survivors Group share personal stories of their unfathomable experiences of loss—and of their ultimate endurance—f
Manny Waks was raised in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, the second oldest of seventeen children. As an adolescent, he was sexually abused at his religious school. Betrayed by those he trusted, Waks
How much do you know about mobile phones, other wireless devices, and the radiation they emit? It’s been shown they can have a wide range of effects on your health, which is why many world authorities
“Remarkably clear-sighted. . . . In this book, the best of what journalism should be—honest, unsentimental, incisive—is combined with the craft and storytelling skills of born writers.”—Christos Tsiol
The first decade of the twenty-first century has seen a sharp decline in respect for human rights and the international rule of law. The legal conventions of the new realpolitik seem to owe more to Gu
These are the last days of Raoul Moat.Raoul Moat was the fugitive mechanic who, in one hot July week when, after killing his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend, shooting her in the stomach, and blinding a
“Written with an exhilarating combination of insight and passion . . . A necessary book.”—Anna Funder, author of StasilandPaul Robeson was a prize-winning scholar and the greatest football player of h
‘You wouldn’t get involved, Johnny, would you? What about those terrible bombs? You wouldn’t do a bad thing, would you?’In this passionate and heart-wrenching debut novel by Irish writer Mark Mulholla
“The Love of a Bad Man is a rare combination of immense writing talent and wondrous imagination. You’ve never read a book quite like this one.”—Jeff Guinn, author of Manson“Like Helen Garner, Laura Wo
“Anyone who is interested in what remains one of modern history’s most important debates will want to read this.”—Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris: 1919The Versailles Peace Treaty, the pact between
‘What you are doing right now is, cosmically speaking, against the odds.’As young children, we are taught to read, but soon go on to forget just how miraculous a process it is, this turning of scratch
Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice, tundra, and species a
A novel about connections in a changing world of friends, lovers, family, illness, and death, this unique narrative tells the story of Marie Kinga 59-year-old divorcee from Sydney’s affluent north sho
The Port Fairy Murders is the sequel to The Holiday Murders, a political and historical crime novel set in 1943, featuring the newly formed homicide department of Victoria Police. The department h
Life lessons from the ground up. Sometimes you reap what you sow. Sometimes you reap what other people sowed. Sometimes you haven't got a clue what you are sowing, and sometimes you just get luck
A special 100th-anniversary edition. Long overshadowed by the national obsession with the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign, the breathtaking story of what really happened on the Western Front has finally
The past century has witnessed a revolution. Less than a hundred years ago, the average Western life expectancy was 40; now it is 80. And there is no end in sight: the first person who will reach 135
This is the largely unknown story of another Anzac force, which fought not at Gallipoli, but in Greece, during World War II. Desperately outnumbered and fighting in deeply inhospitable conditions,
An astute novel about Australian racism — and about humanity prevailing over entrenched prejudice. Jack Van Duyn is stuck in his comfort zone. A pot-bellied, round-shouldered cabbie in his mid-fifties
