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  • The Fall

    The End of the Murdoch Empire

    by Michael Wolff ...
    THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCHMeet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down.In his irresistible trilogy on the chaotic Trump presidency - Fire and Fury, Siege, and Landslide - the journalist Michael Wolff led readers deep into ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • How Life Imitates Sports

    A Sportswriter Recounts, Relives, and Reckons with 50 Years on the Sports Beat

    by Ira Berkow ...
    Memorable Stories From a Half Century of Sports JournalismFor the last half century, Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Ira Berkow has been at the center of some of the most memorable moments in sports history. From the World Series, NBA Finals, and Super Bowl, to Heavyweight Title Fights, the Olympics, and The Masters, he has seen and covered them all. After fifty years covering sports, with ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD $1.99 AUD

  • Westwind

    The classic lost thriller from the Iconic #1 Bestselling Writer of Channel 4’s MURDER ISLAND

    by Ian Rankin ...
    THE CLASSIC LOST THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**'Shockingly good' The Sun'A prescient, high-octane thriller' Daily Express'Totally on the money - and ripe for this republication' i Newspaper* * * * ***It always starts with a small lie. That's how you stop noticing the bigger ones.After his friend suspects something strange going on at the satellite facility where ... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Storytellers

    Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

    by Leigh Sales ...
    Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream of Australian journalists about their craft – how (and why) they bring us the stories that inform our lives.Leigh Sales is one of Australia’s most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC’s flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy

    And Other Rules to Live By

    by David Mitchell ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'A delight!' Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2'Very entertaining.' Irish Times**From UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, horsemeat lasagne to Trump in the White House: bestselling comedian David Mitchell brilliantly tackles the dumbfounding times we live in.As facts are downgraded to opinions, as customers are preyed upon by algorithm-wielding websites, voters by ta... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • How to Sell a Massacre

    by Peter Charley ...
    One Nation, the NRA and $20 million -- inside journalism's most audacious stingBy the mastermind who infiltrated the NRA and One Nation and based on the award-winning documentary seen on ABC TVIn 2019, the ABC aired an explosive investigative documentary entitled How to Sell a Massacre. The result of an audacious three-year infiltration of the US National Rifle Association, the documentary ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • I Could Be You

    An addictive and gripping suspense thriller

    by Sheila Bugler ...
    Book 1 - A Dee Doran Crime Thriller
    A life has been taken. But whose life is it?On a stifling hot day, former journalist Dee Doran finds the crumpled body of her friend at the roadside. Katie and her little boy, Jake, have been a light in Dee’s otherwise desolate life – now a woman is dead and a child is missing.Katie has been keeping secrets for a long time. Years earlier, she fell for the wrong person. But he was in love with ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fixed It

    by Jane Gilmore ...
    On average, at least one woman is murdered by a current or former partner every week in Australia. Far too many Australian women have experienced physical or sexual violence. Only rarely do these women capture the attention of the media and the public. What can we do to stem the tide of violence and tragedy?Finally, we are starting to talk about this epidemic of gendered violence, but too often we ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Crossing the Line

    The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines

    by Nick McKenzie ...
    'There is no doubt the truth would have been concealed and our concerns buried without Nick McKenzie's relentless pursuit of justice.' SAS Afghanistan veteranWar is brutal. But there are lines that should never be crossed. In mid-2017, whispers of executions, and cover-ups within Australia's most secretive and elite military unit, the SAS, reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. He ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Merchants of Truth

    Inside the News Revolution

    by Jill Abramson ...
    The gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world.The last decade has seen the News industry face unprecedented change. The sometimes-century old institutions which were once the bastions of truth have had their dominance eroded by vast innovations in viral technology and, as millennial appetites force the ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay

    by David Murray ...
    How did a father with no criminal history come to be on trial for the brutal murder of his wife?It began with a phone call to Brisbane police on 20 April 2012. Allison, wife of real estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay, was missing.When investigating officers arrived at the family home, in one of the city’s wealthiest suburbs, a neatly dressed Gerard was about to send the couple’s three daughters off to ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • I Love Russia

    Reporting from a Lost Country

    by Elena Kostyuchenko ...
    Translated by Ilona Chavasse, Bela Shayevich ...
    'Would you like to know where Putin comes from? What the Russians are like today? And why? Read this book' SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH'Elena Kostyuchenko is an important guide to the twenty-first century' TIMOTHY SNYDERTo be a journalist is to tell the truth. To be patriotic is to be critical, honest and fearless.I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

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  • Secondhand Time

    The Last of the Soviets

    by Svetlana Alexievich ...
    Translated by Bela Shayevich ...
    From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia.Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Missing William Tyrrell

    by Caroline Overington ...
    One minute a little boy is playing outside his foster nana's house, the next minute, he's gone. How can a three year old child simply disappear?On Friday 12 September 2014, William Tyrrell - a playful three-year-old boy dressed in a fire-engine red Spider-Man suit - disappears from a quiet street in broad daylight. It's assumed he's lost in the nearby bushland, but despite an intensive search, he ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD $13.99 AUD

  • The Cave

    The Inside Story of the Amazing Thai Cave Rescue

    by Liam Cochrane ...
    Twelve lost boys, their coach, and the heroes who rescued them.When the 12 young members of the Wild Boars soccer club walked into a Thai cave with their coach, they expected to be out by nightfall. A birthday cake waited in the fridge for one boy, another boy had a tutoring class. They had rope and torches but no food. Then a sudden monsoonal downpour flooded their route out. They were trapped - ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • This House of Grief

    The Story of a Murder Trial

    by Helen Garner ...
    Winner, Ned Kelly Awards, Best True Crime, 2015A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2014On the evening of 4 September 2005, Father’s Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into a dam. The boys, aged ten, seven and two, drowned. Was this an act of revenge or a tragic accident? The court ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD

  • What Really Happened In Wuhan

    A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths

    by Sharri Markson ...
    Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia.The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a year and a half, that the virus had a natural origin, ridiculing anyone who dared contradict this view. Tech giants swept the internet, censoring ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Bad Blood

    Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

    by John Carreyrou ...
    **Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018"You will not want to put this riveting, masterfully reported book down. No matter how bad you think the Theranos story was, you'll learn that the reality was actually far worse." Bethany McLean, bestselling coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils Are Here**In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Lost Girls

    by Ava Benny-Morrison ...
    The chilling true story of the heinous murder of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and daughterKhandalyce and how the case was crackedIn August 2010, the bones of a young woman were found in Belanglo State Forest, where, years earlier, Ivan Milat had tortured and slain seven young backpackers. Dubbed Angel, her remains lay unidentified for years. Who was she, how did she die, and at whose hand?Then, in July ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • One Hundred Years of Dirt

    by Rick Morton ...
    Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton’s family. A horrific accident thrusts his mother and siblings into a world impossible for them to navigate, a life of poverty and drug addictionOne Hundred Years of Dirt is an unflinching memoir in which the mother is a hero who is never rewarded. It is a meditation on the anger, fear of others and an obsession with ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD $7.99 AUD

  • Invisible Women

    the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day

    by Caroline Criado Perez ...
    *THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives.'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin MoranImagine a world where...· Your phone is too big for your hand· Yo... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Stalking Claremont

    Inside the hunt for a serial killer

    by Bret Christian ...
    One young woman missing, two found murdered -- the gripping true story of Australia's longest-running homicide investigation** Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for True Crime 2021**In the early hours of January 27, 1996, after an evening spent celebrating at Club Bayview in the Perth suburb of Claremont, 18-year-old Sarah Spiers called a taxi to nearby Mosman Park. But when the cab arrived, she'd ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD $14.99 AUD

  • Balcony Over Jerusalem

    A Middle East Memoir

    by John Lyons ...
    A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents.Leading Australian journalist John Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem with his wife and eight-year-old son, to the fall of dictators and his gripping account of what ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sideshow

    dumbing down democracy

    by Lindsay Tanner ...
    ‘After spending much of my life dedicated to the serious craft of politics, I have to admit that I am distressed by what it is becoming. Under siege from commercial pressures and technological innovation, the media are retreating into an entertainment frame that has little tolerance for complex social and economic issues. In turn, politicians and parties are adapting their behaviour to suit the ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD