Albanese Telling it Straight by Karen Middleton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
The moving personal story behind the very public political face of Labor's Anthony Albanese, written with the cooperation of Albo. As much a window on the recent turbulent years of politics u from the man who was often in the middle of the room where everything was happening, and who became the Deputy P ...Show more
What Happened by Hillary Clinton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political
For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman no ...Show more
Dear Prime Minister Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949–1966 by Martyn Lyons
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political
‘I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean’, wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance.Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his 1949-1966 record-breaking second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows and political lea ...Show more
Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill's Youngest Child by Mary Soames
$19.95 AUD
Category: Political
At ninety years old, Mary Soames is the only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. A Daughter's Tale follows her early life from her idyllic childhood in her own 'Garden of Eden' at Chartwell to her ATS service in mixed anti-aircraft batteries during the war. With glimpses into her fascin ...Show more
The Insider by Christopher Pyne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
Christopher Pyne has been many things and called many things throughout his long career in politics. Member for Sturt. Minister for Defence. Manager of Opposition Business. Leader of the House. 'The Fixer'. Any Canberra story he doesn't know isn't worth telling. Now, after 26 years, the ultimate ins ...Show more
Diary of a Foreign Minister by Bob Carr
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
Six years after vacating his position as the longest-serving Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr returned to politics in his dream job: as Foreign Minister of Australia and a senior federal cabinet minister.For 18 months he kept a diary documenting a whirl of high-stakes events on the world stage - the ...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
Return to Moscow by Tony Kevin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
Forty-eight years ago, a young and apprehensive Tony Kevin set off with his family on his first diplomatic posting, to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. In the Russian winter of 2016 he returns alone, a private citizen, aged 73. What will he find? How has Russia changed since those grim Soviet days? ...Show more
Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra by Anne Aly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
From Cairo to Canberra - the irresistible story of an irrespressible woman 'Anne Aly's ... influence will be felt for years to come ... It sinks in how significant she may be to public life.' - The Good Weekend In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and th ...Show more
Hard Choices: Hillary Rodham Clinton by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future.“All of us face hard choices in our lives,” Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this perso ...Show more
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: near fine
Nadia Murad has put a human face on one of the world's most complicated and intractable conflicts * Sunday Business Post * This devastating memoir unflinchingly recounts her experiences and questions the complicity of witnesses who acquiesced in the suffering of others * New Yorker * Courageous . . . An ...Show more
Menzies Era by John Howard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
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 .. ...Show more