The sentiment that flows through these images is a balm to the knowledge that time is passing and things will change — William McInnes.Warren Kirk's photos will strike a chord with anyone who's grown
William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics in the second half of the twentieth century. This biography tells the story of his life, his career, an
On a bright spring day in 2015, as Georgia Blain was mowing the lawn, she collapsed on a bed of blossoms, blood frothing at her mouth. Waking up to find herself in the back of an ambulance being rushe
“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
This riveting biography of Germaine Greer traces the personal and political history of one of the most important, radical, and controversial women of twentieth and twenty-first century feminism. It re
Members of the last generation of inmates and staff return to the now-forgotten prison to tell the true and brutal story of Pentridge before developers bury it forever.Rupert Mann has worked with the
Born into a wealthy family in northern England and sent to boarding school to be educated by nuns, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to interwar Paris, where she finds herself through art, and falls in
Too often, we humans tend to assume that nature is fixed, immutable — and this tendency is particularly strong when we think about matters of the mind and behavior. People just can’t change, we say, s
A groundbreaking work of Australian military history, The Code-Breakers of Central Bureau tells the story of the country’s significant code-breaking and signals-intelligence achievements during the Se
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,
Hundreds of Australian first-person narratives of World War I have been published, but none more riveting than this one.The wartime letters and diaries of Pompey Elliott, Australia’s most famous fight
A hilarious tale of friendship and fun where Doodle Cat learns that sometimes kindness is the most important superpower of all.He can perform all kinds of superhero acts, like catching humans when the
Bennett deftly tells the story of such missing Anzacs through the personal experience of three sets of brothers — the Reids, Pflaums, and Allens — whose names he selected from the Memorials to the Mis
A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media.Les Hinton was 15 when he first worked for Rupert Murdoch, and Murdoch’s “empi
In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empi
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
