Lawless - A Lawyer's Unrelenting Fight for Justice in One of the World's Most Dangerous Places by Kimberley Motley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: very good
The extraordinary story of Kim Motley, the US woman who became the first foreign lawyer to practice in Afghanistan.
The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison by Sean Kelly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game? Australia wanted Scott Morrison. In a time of uncertainty, the country chose in 2019 to turn to a man with no obvious beliefs, no clear purpose and no famous talents. That we wanted Scott Morrison was the secret we did not know about ou ...Show more
The Menzies Era by John Howard
$59.99 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
In the Skin of a Jihadist: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
Twenty year-old Melanie, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an Islamist brigade on Facebook. In forty-eight hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her day and night, urges her to marry him, join him in Syria to enjoy a life of paradise - and join his jihad. Anna Erelle is the undercov ...Show more
Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Transformed America by Jonathan Chait
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: General Adult
An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America s best and most accomplished presidents.Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded he ...Show more
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency by Michael Wolff
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the epic presidency of Donald J. TrumpWith Fire and Fury Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; in Siege he wrote an explosive account of a presidency under fire. In Landslide Wolff closes the story ...Show more
Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia by Angela Woollacott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Don Dunstan was one of the most significant political figures of twentieth-century Australia. As Premier of South Australia, he blazed a trail of reform. But his influence reached far beyond his home state. He was seen as the architect of a new kind of Australian society, and his decade in office marked ...Show more
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
$59.99 AUD
Category: Political
Richard Nixon opens with Navy lieutenant 'Nick' Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. Four ye ...Show more
Nine Lives - My Time As MI6'S Top Spy by Paul Cruickshank; Tim Lister; Aimen Dean
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political
As one of Al Qaeda's most respected scholars and bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and met Osama Bin Laden himself. His job was already one of the most dangerous in the world. But what the others didn't know was that he was working undercover for MI6.
Jacinda Ardern by Michelle Duff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: near fine
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is lauded as one of the world's most influential people. Her rise to power has been stellar. In 2017, she became leader of the Labour party just seven weeks before the election, at which she claimed the top job.
Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda La Grange
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political
An inspiring international bestseller, Good Morning, Mr Mandela tells the story of Zelda la Grange's incredible friendship with Nelson Mandela. Zelda la Grange grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation. Yet just a few years after the end of Apartheid she would b ...Show more
Churchill by Roy Jenkins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for his personal writing and cautioning against a powerful Soviet Russia in his l ...Show more