Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the me too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words and how she brought empathy back to an entire generatio ...Show more
The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith by Sarah Krasnostein
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: very good
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselves ...Show more
Kerry O'Brien, A Memoir by Kerry O'Brien
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
Walkley award winning ABC journalist, Kerry O'Brien, reflects on social and political upheavals he has witnessed and the personalities who have made history.
The Accidental Prime Minister by Annika Smethurst
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political
Nine months after the spill that catapulted him to the prime ministership, Scott Morrison won the 2019 election, shocking politicians and political pundits (and, quite possibly, himself). Yet, unlike his predecessors, little was really known about the former marketing man whose hard-nosed political inst ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern by Michelle Duff
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
Michelle Duff sweeps up all the misogyny that's accompanied Ardern's career so far and show how it undermines women in politics. It's engaging, enraging, illuminating and funny. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is lauded as one of the world's most influential people. Her rise to power has ...Show more
Remembering Bob by Sue Pieters-Hawke (Editor); Louise Swinn (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Bob Hawke's death in May 2019 sparked national mourning across the country as we remembered just how important Bob had been in the shaping of modern Australia. In an age when political personas have become increasingly formulaic and predictable, Bob was a man of glorious contradictions. He was a Rhodes ...Show more
Michelle Obama - Becoming by Michelle Obama
$26.99 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: good-very good
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesThe No. 1 BestsellerBritis ...Show more
Becoming by Michelle Obama
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: very good
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African American to ...Show more
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
What's important is our story, our whole story, including those moments when we feel a little vulnerable . . . Michelle Robinson started life sharing a bedroom with her older brother Craig, in their family's upstairs apartment in her great-aunt's house. Her parents, Fraser and Marian, poured their love ...Show more
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Payne Les Payne Tamara
$26.99 AUD
Category: Political
A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Ma ...Show more
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new so ...Show more
The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
$26.99 AUD
Category: Political
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Non Fiction ‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested a ...Show more