Beauty by Bri Lee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A powerful meditation on beauty and body image from the author of Eggshell Skull. You were either fit and trim or you weren't working hard enough. Your body was how you conveyed wealth and status to your peers, it was a personality trait, a symbol of goodness and values: an ethical ideal. In recent dec ...Show more
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more
We Need New Stories: The Fortress of Corrupt Ideas and How to Tear It Down by Nesrine Malik
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A radical and thought-provoking polemic which examines the foundational myths at the centre of current culture wars It is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for decades to stave off progressive causes are being exposed as falsehoods. Six myths have ...Show more
Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay #93) by Lech Blaine
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
The Herd: How Sweden Chose its own Path Through the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years by Johan Anderberg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In the spring of 2020, as a new and deadly virus rapidly spread across the globe, the world shut down. But a small country in Northern Europe remained open. The Swedish COVID-19 strategy has been alternately lauded and held up as a cautionary tale by international governments and journalists alike -- w ...Show more
Freezing Order - A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
‘I was hooked from the first paragraph. More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tingingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, FREEZING ORDER has a stunning plot ... but with this stunning twist: it is all true' Stephen Fry Following his explo ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Category: Current Affairs
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and bodyDuring pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.There is no other time in a human's life course that entails such ...Show more
12 Rules for Strife by Jeff Sparrow, Sam Wallman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better. We don't need to wait for a leader or saviour. We don't need to limit ourselves to comments and clicks. In this stunningly original comic-book tour of a serious topic, Jeff ...Show more
Can't Even - How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN:Apartment Therapy *Book Riot *Business Insider *BuzzFeed *Daily Nebraskan *Entertainment Weekly *Esquire *Fortune *Harper's Bazaar *HelloGiggles *LinkedIn *O Magazine *Time Magazine"[A] razor sharp book of cultural criticism...With blistering prose and all-too vivid re ...Show more
The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work by Yascha Mounk
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book'ANNE APPLEBAUMOne of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our time- how to live together equally and peacefully in diverse democracies. It's easy to be pessimistic about the fate of democracy ...Show more