Biography: historical, political & military

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Book Cover: The Price of Life
August 2008, Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout.  They are abducted by a criminal gang, brutalised, and kept in isolation and ignorance.  The ransom amount is US$3 million; if it's not paid, they will be killed.  And the Australian government does not pay ransoms.
August 2008, Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout.  They are abducted by a criminal gang, brutalised, and kept in isolation and ignorance.  The ransom amount is US$3 million; if it's not paid, they will be killed.  And the Australian government does not pay ransoms.
Published: 27/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921518782
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Arthur's War
A story for all Australians: a captivating saga of courage, mateship, survival – and love.
A story for all Australians: a captivating saga of courage, mateship, survival – and love.
Published: 02/08/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670073467
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Night
By Elie Wiesel
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective...
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he...
Published: 10/11/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141038995
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: The Drovers: Stories behind the heroes of our stock routes
McHugh's meticulous research and vivid eye for detail is the closest you'll get to saddling up your moke and poking a mob of cattle off camp.
McHugh's meticulous research and vivid eye for detail is the closest you'll get to saddling up your moke and poking a mob of cattle off camp.
Published: 02/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670072507
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Outback Pioneers

In Outback Pionners , Evan McHugh gathers the enthralling stories of the men and women who opened up the Australian outback and in the process discovered the beauty and terror of this extraordinary country.

In Outback Pionners , Evan McHugh gathers the enthralling stories of the men and women who opened up the Australian outback and in the process discovered the beauty and terror of this extraordinary country...

Published: 26/10/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143010760
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World  War One
By Miranda Carter

'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on the eve of catastrophe'
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, FINANCIAL TIMES

'Dazzling' GUARDIAN

THREE COUSINS.  THREE EMPERORS.  AND THE ROAD TO RUIN.

'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on the eve of catastrophe'
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, FINANCIAL TIMES

'Dazzling'...

Published: 01/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141019987
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Known and Unknown: A Memoir
A fascinating narrative for today's readers and an unprecedented resource for tomorrow's historians.
A fascinating narrative for today's readers and an unprecedented resource for tomorrow's historians.
Published: 10/02/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781595230676
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  What is the What
By Dave Eggers

This is the story of a man who, as a boy, was spearated from his family in Sudan's brutal civil war; who trekked across Africa's punishing wilderness with thousands of other children; who survived aerial bombardment and attacks by militias and wild animals; who ate whatever he could find or nothing at all; who, as a boy, considered ending his life to end the suffering; and who eventually made it to...

This is the story of a man who, as a boy, was spearated from his family in Sudan's brutal civil war; who trekked across Africa's punishing wilderness with thousands of other children; who survived aerial...

Published: 30/09/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141015743
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Making of Julia Gillard: Prime Minister
The Making of Julia Gillard is an insightful and immensely readable account of this remarkable woman.
The Making of Julia Gillard is an insightful and immensely readable account of this remarkable woman.
Published: 29/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670075348
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
By Niall Ferguson

'A fascinating portrait . . . Beautifully paced, dramatically subtle and psychologically shrewd . . . Warburg is an emblem of money as it ought to be, and now isn't' 
Bryan Appleyard, New Statesman

'A fascinating portrait . . . Beautifully paced, dramatically subtle and psychologically shrewd . . . Warburg is an emblem of money as it ought to be, and now isn't' 
Bryan Appleyard, New...

Published: 24/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141022017
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage
By Jodi Kantor

When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit. Together they planned a White House life that would be as normal and sane as possible.

When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit. Together...

Published: 23/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781846145674
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother
By Janny Scott

A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother.

Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, 'what is best in me.' Here is the missing piece of the story.



A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother.

Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known...

Published: 13/07/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781594487972
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Eva Braun: Life With Hitler
By Heike B Gortemaker

EVA BRAUN and Adolf Hitler were together for fourteen years, a relationship that ended only with their marriage and double suicide in Berlin. Braun was obsessed with sport, fashion, photography and films, and seems to have had no real interest in politics. She and Hitler were unmarried and they had no children.

EVA BRAUN and Adolf Hitler were together for fourteen years, a relationship that ended only with their marriage and double suicide in Berlin. Braun was obsessed with sport, fashion, photography and films...

Published: 17/11/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781846144899
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover: The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography
By Tetsu Saiwai

'Because violence can only breed more violence and suffering, our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred.'  His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama

'Because violence can only breed more violence and suffering, our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred.'  His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama

Published: 01/12/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780143118152
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Ghost at the Wedding: a true story

Winner, 2009 Asher Literary Award

Three generations,
two world wars,
one family

The young men who worked in the canefields of northern New South Wales in 1914 couldn't wait to set off for the adventure of war. The women coped as best they could, raised the children, lived in fear of an official telegram. They grieved for those killed, and learnt of worse things than death in combat. They bore more...

Winner, 2009 Asher Literary Award

Three generations,
two world wars,
one family

The young men who worked in the canefields of northern New South Wales in 1914 couldn't wait to set off for the adventure...

Published: 03/05/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143203292
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Frock Coated Communist. The Life and Times of the Original ChampagneSocialist
By Tristram Hunt

'Beautifully written, consistently interesting, intensely enjoyable'  John Gray, Independent

Friedrich Engels was a Victorian cotton magnate, a raffish, high-living, fox-hunting gentleman who enjoyed lobster, champagne and women. Yet he was also a political revolutionary, who wrote passionately about the lives of the poor in England and, with Karl Marx, created The Communist Manifesto, inspiring...

'Beautifully written, consistently interesting, intensely enjoyable'  John Gray, Independent

Friedrich Engels was a Victorian cotton magnate, a raffish, high-living, fox-hunting gentleman who enjoyed...

Published: 16/06/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141021409
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Sir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary Life
By Alexa Johnston
Born and raised in a quiet country town in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary was a shy, unassuming schoolboy with a seemingly unremarkable career ahead of him.
Born and raised in a quiet country town in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary was a shy, unassuming schoolboy with a seemingly unremarkable career ahead of him.
Published: 01/10/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143006466
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop. Java and the Burma - Thailand
This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but also a testament to the ability of the human spirit to overcome the most unbearably cruel conditions.
This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an...
Published: 01/03/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143003915
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
By Anne Frank

'Hiding... where would we hide?... Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this diary...'

'Hiding... where would we hide?... Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this diary...'

Published: 29/07/2011
Format: Misc.
ISBN: 9780141336671
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover: The Mascot

'A powerful book . . . revealing his father's remarkable and horrific story' Sunday Telegraph

One summer's day in 1997, Mark Kurzem returned home to find his father on his doorstep.   Alex Kurzem had travelled halfway round the world to reveal a long-kept secret, and now wanted his son's help to piece together his past and his identity.



'A powerful book . . . revealing his father's remarkable and horrific story' Sunday Telegraph

One summer's day in 1997, Mark Kurzem returned home to find his father on his doorstep.   Alex Kurzem...

Published: 03/08/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143007777
RRP: $26.95

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08 Feb 2012
USBBY annual list of outstanding international books

Selected for the 2012 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of Outstanding International Books for children and young adults.

The Garden of Empress Cassia by Gabrielle Wang

The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett

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