Joseph Anton : A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: very good
On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being 'against ...Show more
My Story (Julia Gillard) by Julia Gillard
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a lea ...Show more
Gough Whitlam: His Time by Jenny Hocking
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
Recreates the excitement of Whitlam's historic win in 1972, forces that never accepted his ascendency &the tragedy that followed. Drawing on previously unseen archival material, interviews with family, colleague sand with the man himself, this second volume finally exposes the truth about the Whitla ...Show more
The Independent Member for Lyne by Rob Oakeshott
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
From deep inside the last Parliament, Rob Oakeshott reveals the real story of being an independent during the Gillard government.
Knowing Mandela by John Carlin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political
A personal tribute to the great Nelson Mandela, one of the iconic figures of our time, written by the acclaimed South Africa correspondent and author of the international bestseller Playing the Enemy (filmed as Invictus) who has been reporting on Mandela since the 1990s. After serving twenty-seven years ...Show more
When We Were Young (and Foolish): A Memoir of My Misguided Youth with Tony Abbott, Bob Carr and Kevin Rudd by Greg Sheridan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
By chance, Greg Sheridan's early life saw him become intimate friends and colleagues with a fascinating list of people who now make up Australia's political leadership. At university Tony Abbott was his best friend; he became close to Peter Costello as well as Labor figures Michael Danby and Michael Eas ...Show more
Keating by Kerry O'Brien
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political and economic reform in Australia's history. Twenty years on, there is still no story from the horse's mouth of how it all came about. No autobiography. No memoir. Yet he is the supreme story-teller of poli ...Show more
Bob Ellis: In His Own Words by Bob Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
Compiled by Anne Brooksbank Introduction by Jack Ellis and reflection by Les Murray. Bob Ellis: In His Own Words showcases the best of Ellis's celebrated and much-loved essays, speeches, diaries and scripts, in addition to previously unpublished work, archival photos, and reflections from close friends ...Show more
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Satchel "comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight of a bygone ...Show more
Paul Keating by Troy Bramston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
"Drawing on extensive interviews with Keating, coupled with access to his personal files, this book tells the story of a political warrior's rise to power, from the outer suburbs of Sydney through Young Labor and into parliament at just 25 years of age, serving as a minister in the last days of the Whit ...Show more
The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom by Peter Popham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Released from house arrest in 2010, she led her party to a dramatic victory in Burma's first free general election in a generation. Acclaimed biographer, Peter Popham, describes how, inspired by her leader ...Show more