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  • Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

    by Maureen Callahan ...
    The No1 Sunday Times BestsellerA Mail on Sunday ‘Best Holiday Read 2024’‘A searing exposé’ Glamour‘A timely reminder of the dangers posed by men who crave power’ – ObserverFrom New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, an... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders

    by Debi Marshall ...
    In this definitive expose, Walkley-award winning journalist Debi Marshall turns her investigative blowtorch to the shocking Adelaide Family murders and to secrets long hidden in the City of Corpses.This chilling account begins with the liberalisation of South Australia under the premiership of Don Dunstan and demands answers to decades-old questions. Who were the Family killers? Why are ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • A Heart Full of Headstones

    The #1 bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

    by Ian Rankin ...
    Series Book 1 - A Rebus Novel
    THE BRAND NEW REBUS THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE MUST-READ NOVELS OF THE YEAR.'I loved it - Rebus is one of fiction's greatest creations' MARIAN KEYESJohn Rebus stands accused: the once legendary detective is on trial, facing the rest of his life behind bars.How does a hero turn villain?Or have times changed, and the rules with them?Detective Inspector Siobhan C... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Trigger Warnings

    political correctness and the rise of the right

    by Jeff Sparrow ...
    Donald Trump is the Thing-that-should-not-be.The man lives, quite literally, in a building serviced by a golden elevator. Somehow, he presented himself as the scourge of the elites. For decades, he built a persona based on the most conspicuous consumption and the crassest of excess — and then he won the presidency on an antiestablishment ticket. The unlikely rise of Donald J Trump exemplifies the ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

  • The Architect of the New BJP

    How Narendra Modi Transformed the Party

    by Ajay Singh ...
    In less than forty years of its existence, the Bharatiya Janata Party has become the world's largest political party and continues to go from strength to strength in Indian politics. Although its historic rise may seem organic to some, there is much internal deliberation and planning that has aided the growth of this 180-million-member organization. The Architect of the New BJP uses in-depth ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

  • Greetings from Trumpland

    How an unprecedented presidency changed everything

    by Zoe Daniel, Roscoe Whalan ...
    Greetings from Trumpland explores how an unprecedented presidency changed everything.As we enter a post-Trump era, facts are a matter of opinion, the boundaries of civility have shifted, and populism has re-emerged as a powerful tool for political leaders the world over.In a masterclass on using anger and fear for political gain, Donald Trump harnessed the power of social media to develop blind ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD $2.99 AUD

  • The World As It Is

    Inside the Obama White House

    by Ben Rhodes ...
    ‘One of the most compelling stories I’ve seen about what it’s actually like to serve the American people’ BARACK OBAMAA revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of the Obama presidency and a political memoir about the power of words to change our worldThis is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Obama. The other is Ben Rhodes.A young writer and ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Fallout

    the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world

    by Lesley Blume ...
    ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2020ONE OF VANITY FAIR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2020New York Times bestselling author Lesley Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of the greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century — the true effects of the atom bomb — potentially saving millions of lives.In the days following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the ... Read more

    $29.99 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

  • The Menzies Era

    by John Howard ...
    An assessment of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, by John Howard, Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister, this is a significant, unique and fascinating history of the Menzies era - a time that laid the foundations for modern Australia.'Engaging and revealing ... like a torchlight shone from an unexpected angle' Geoffrey Blainey, Weekend AustralianFresh ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD $17.99 AUD

  • A Journey

    by Tony Blair ...
    In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He remains the only living Labour leader to have won a general election.He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers have shaped the nation's course as profoundly as Blair during his ten years in power, and his ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine

    by Owen Matthews ...
    Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023*A Telegraph Book of the Year*A Times Best Book of Summer 2023*Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards*An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol.The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis ... ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • Bulldozed

    Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise

    by Niki Savva ...
    Series Book 3 - The Road to Ruin Trilogy
    WINNER OF THE 2023 ABIA GENERAL NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD‘The gripping inside story of how Scott Morrison went from miracle man to roadkill. Savva portrays a fatally flawed leader who trashed his government, his party, and his legacy.’—Laurie OakesBetween 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Australia was governed by a succession ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

  • He Who Must Be Obeid

    The Untold Story

    by Kate McClymont, Linton Besser ...
    Queensland had the Fitzgerald Inquiry and the Moonlight State. New South Wales has Eddie Obeid.Meet Australia's most corrupt politician whose brazen misdeeds were said to be on a scale "unexceeded since the days of the Rum Corps".From the shadows Obeid ran the state as his fiefdom, making and unmaking premiers.His tentacles stretched through all levels of government, encircling almost every ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

    by Catherine Belton ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘An outstanding exposé of Putin and his criminal pals … [A] long-awaited, must read book’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Books about modern Russia abound … Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is the best and most important on modern Russia’ THE TIMESA chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB’s renaissance, Putin’s rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

  • Freezing Order

    A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

    by Bill Browder ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 2 BESTSELLER ** THE NEW YORK TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Belton**‘**A jaw-dropping exposé by Putin’s ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • American Injustice: Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System

    by David S. Rudolf ...
    ‘A bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system.’ The GuardianFrom the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix’s The Staircase comes an essential examination of America’s corrupt and abusive criminal justice system.In the past thirty years, more than 2,700 innocent American prisoners—their combined jail sentences adding up ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, And How We Can Fix It

    by Ben Goldacre ...
    ‘Bad Science’ hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Venom

    Vendettas, Betrayals and the Price of Power

    by David Crowe ...
    A cracking account of the rivalries and hatreds that split the Liberal Party, brought down Malcolm Turnbull and propelled Scott Morrison to power.They plotted. They schemed. They unleashed chaos.Australia lost two prime ministers in three years in a period of political bloodshed that took the nation's government to the brink of collapse - until an extraordinary election changed everything.Venom is ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Two Minute Rule

    by Robert Crais ...
    'Excellent' THE TIMES'Crais's thrilling narrative oozes suspense. There are twists to keep you guessing' OBSERVERTwo minutes can be a lifetime. But break the two minute rule and it's a lifetime in jail. Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two minute rule and they'll tell you that's as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up.But not everyone plays by the rules. ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Shock Doctrine

    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

    by Naomi Klein ...
    'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le CarréAround the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors.Exposing these global profiteers, Naomi Klein discovered ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Landslide

    The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

    by Michael Wolff ...
    'First there was Fire and Fury, then there was Siege, now there is Landslide. The third is the best of the three' Guardian'Cruel, unforgiving, muckracking, scandalous . . . Michael Wolff concludes his Trump trilogy - with the best book' Telegraph'Wolff is the shrewdest chronicler of Trump' Sunday TimesPolitics has given us some shocking and confounding moments bu... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Moneyland

    Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back

    by Oliver Bullough ...
    A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERPRESENTER OF THE BBC RADIO 4 SERIES 'HOW TO STEAL A TRILLION'SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2019SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARAN ECONOMIST POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY MAIL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'You cannot understand power, wealth and poverty without knowing about Moneyland</em... ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • Dark Money

    how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US

    by Jane Mayer ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS, BEST NONFICTIONA LITHUB BOOK OF THE DECADEThe US is one of the largest democracies in the world — or is it?America is experiencing an age of profound economic inequality. Employee protections have been decimated, and state welfare is virtually non-existent, while hedge-fund billionaires are grossly under-taxed and big businesses make astounding pro ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD