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  • Act of Grace

    by Anna Krien ...
    An electrifying story of fear and sacrifice, and what people will do to outrun the shadows.Iraqi aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son, triggering a perilous search for safety. In Australia, decades later, Gerry is in fear of his tyrannical father, Toohey, who has returned from the Iraq War bearing the physical and psychological scars of conflict. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Night Games

    A Journey to the Dark Side of Sport

    by Anna Krien ...
    *Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014*‘The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface. By morning, the head of the sexual crimes squad confirmed to journalists that they were preparing to question two players ... And so, as police were ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 66 The Long Goodbye

    Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock

    by Anna Krien ...
    Series Book 66 - Quarterly Essay
    The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Extreme weather is becoming all too familiar. Yet when it comes to action on climate change, division and paralysis rule the land.In this vivid, urgent essay, Anna Krien explores the psychology and politics of a warming world. She visits the frontlines of Australia’s climate wars – the Reef, the Galilee and Bowen basins, South Australia. She investigates the Adani ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them

    On the Importance of Animals

    by Anna Krien ...
    Series Book 45 - Quarterly Essay
    For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. As we encroach on the wild and a vast wave of extinctions gathers force, how has our relationship with animals changed?In this dazzling essay, Anna Krien investigates the world we have made and the complexity of the choices we face. From pets to the live cattle trade, from apex predators to scientific experiments, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Us and Them

    On the Importance of Animals

    by Anna Krien ...
    Narrated by Anna Krien ...
    Series Audiobook 45 - Quarterly Essay

    Unabridged

    2 hours 59 min

    For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. As we encroach on the wild and a vast wave of extinctions gathers force, how has our relationship to animals changed? In this dazzling piece of reportage, Anna Krien investigates the contemporary animal kingdom and our place in it. From pets to food, from wildness to science experiments, Krien also reveals how ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 65 The White Queen

    One Nation and the Politics of Race

    by David Marr ...
    Series Book 65 - Quarterly Essay
    Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation.In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia’s politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality? How much to racism? How should the major parties respond to anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim voices? What ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Loudness of Unsaid Things

    by Hilde Hinton ...
    'My heart grew, then broke, then mended itself. A wise, funny, brave novel and a story that you will never want to forget.' Favel ParrettAn unforgettable story of loneliness, isolation and finding your way. Heart-wrenching, wise and wryly funny, this novel will make you kinder to those who are lost.Miss Kaye works at The Institute. A place for the damaged, the outliers, the not-quite rights. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 60 Political Amnesia

    How We Forgot How To Govern

    by Laura Tingle ...
    Series Book 60 - Quarterly Essay
    Whatever happened to good government? What are the signs of bad government? And can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past in a very different world?In this crisp, profound and witty essay, Laura Tingle seeks answers to these questions. She ranges from ancient Rome to the demoralised state of the once-great Australian public service, from the jingoism of the past to the tabloid scandals of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation

    Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation

    by Laura Tingle ...
    Series Book 46 - Quarterly Essay
    Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In Quarterly Essay 46 Laura Tingle shows that the reason for this goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of government. Since the deregulation era of the 1980s, Tingle finds, governments can do less, but we wish they could do more. From Hawke to Gillard, each prime ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 37 What's Right?

    The Future of Conservatism in Australia

    by Waleed Aly ...
    Series Book 37 - Quarterly Essay
    Where did the Right go wrong? With the departure of George W. Bush and John Howard, conservative parties in the US and Australia entered a period of turmoil. Foreign affairs, economics, the environment – all were issues to be avoided. Most profoundly, conservatives no longer seemed to have a compelling vision of the future – and arguably still don’t. How did the Right end up in this state? How ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Dingo's Got My Baby

    by Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton ...
    In 1980, nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo from her family's tent near Uluru in Australia's remote Northern Territory. Her body was never found. In a terrible miscarriage of justice, her mother Lindy was wrongfully convicted of her daughter's murder and sentenced to life in prison. It was seven years before the conviction was overturned. This is the true story behind a tragedy ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • From the Inside: Chopper 1

    by Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read ...
    Series Book 1 - Chopper
    The book that inspired Channel Nine's Underbelly: ChopperFrom streetfighter to standover man, gunman to underworld executioner, Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read was earmarked for death a dozen times but somehow lived to tell the tale. This is it. Chopper: From The Inside became a best-seller on its release in 1991, spawning a series of books that have today sold over 500,000 copies around the world. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD