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  • Donald Horne

    A Life in the Lucky Country

    by Ryan Cropp ...
    The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could changeIn the 1960s, Donald Horne offered Australians a compelling reinterpretation of the Menzies years as a period of social and political inertia and mediocrity. His book The Lucky Country was profoundly influential and, without doubt, one of the most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series

    by Carl Reinecke ...
    A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction.Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the ABC TV series, Carl Reinecke looks at the history of Australian culture through the books we have read and the stories we have told ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • White Heat

    A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties

    by Dominic Sandbrook ...
    'An active pleasure to read' Mail on SundayHarold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum.The memories ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Dreamers and Schemers

    A Political History of Australia

    by Frank Bongiorno ...
    A landmark book - the first full political history of AustraliaIn this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia's political life, from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day.Depicting a wonderful parade of dreamers and schemers, Bongiorno surveys moments of political renewal and sheds fresh light on our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Unbuttoned

    A History of Mackenzie King's Secret Life

    by Christopher Dummitt ...
    When Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King died in 1950, the public knew little about his eccentric private life. In his final will King ordered the destruction of his private diaries, seemingly securing his privacy for good. Yet twenty-five years after King’s death, the public was bombarded with stories about "Weird Willie," the prime minister who communed with ghosts and cavorted with ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Eighties

    The Decade That Transformed Australia

    by Frank Bongiorno ...
    Winner of the ACT Book of the Year AwardIt was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America’s Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and immigration, the advent of AIDS, a harsh recession and the rise of the New Right.It was a time when Australians ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • New Zealand in the Twentieth Century

    by Paul Moon ...
    A fascinating and vibrant history of the New Zealand experience in the twentieth century.this is an accessible social history of life in New Zealand throughout the twentieth century, a time before most of us were born, as well as a period within which most of us have lived. Superbly researched and carefully chosen incidents and passages of history have been selected to tell our story, using diary ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Modernity Britain

    Book Two: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62

    by David Kynaston ...
    Series Book 2 - Tales of a New Jerusalem
    Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third volume in David Kynaston's landmark social history of post-war Britain'Triumphant ... A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity about the lives of individuals' Financial Times'This superb history captures the birth pangs of modern Britain ... It is a part of Kynaston's huge achievement that such moments of insight and pleasure ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The House of Packer

    The making of a media empire

    by Bridget Griffen-Foley ...
    'A remarkable account of the Packer family.painstakingly researched.will enthral anyone with an interest in the media'. - Kate de Brito, The Daily TelegraphAustralia's richest man, Kerry Packer, came to the helm of Australian Consolidated Press a quarter of a century ago; in recent years his son, James, has begun taking over the reins of the group. But despite the legendary reputation of Kerry ... Read more

    $13.79 USD

  • Political Lives

    by Chris Wallace ...
    Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics. What was the story behind Bob Hawke' s famed biography? Why does Paul Keating think biographies of serving politicians are ' like Polaroids of a busy life' while John Howard considers them a big mistake? Where is the ' missing' Menzies biography? Why are our early prime ministers largely absent from ... Read more

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  • On Nineteen Eighty-Four

    A Biography of George Orwell's Masterpiece

    by D.J. Taylor ...
    Series series Books About Books
    The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century—and now the twenty-first.Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reds

    The Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality

    by Stuart Macintyre ...
    The only large-scale comprehensive account of an intriguing part of Australia's past.In 1920, 26 men and women met in a dingy hall in Sydney to create a new political party. They expected the overthrow of capitalism and the emancipation of humanity - here, and all around the world.Two decades later, when Australia joined the Second World War, the Commonwealth government suppressed the Communist ... Read more

    $13.99 USD