HISTORY
WOMEN AND WHITLAM
Michelle Arrow RRP $ 34.99
Women and Whitlam brings together three generations – including Elizabeth Evatt , Eva Cox , Patricia Amphlett , Elizabeth Reid and Tanya Plibersek – to revisit the Whitlam revolution and to build on it for the future .
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KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW
Simon Winchester RRP $ 34.99
Knowing What We Know is a deep dive into learning and the human mind . Winchester forces us to ponder what rational humans are becoming . What good is all this knowledge if it leads to lack of thought ? What is information without wisdom ?
THE EARTH TRANSFORMED : AN UNTOLD HISTORY
Peter Frankopan RRP $ 39.99
By turns revolutionary and revelatory , The Earth Transformed is a landmark work that shows that the natural environment is a crucial , if not the defining , factor in global history .
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REVEALING SECRETS
Clare Birgin , John Blaxland
RRP $ 49.99
OUR PRICE $ 45 99
Revealing Secrets unearths the fascinating story of the organisation that collects intelligence about foreign adversaries , and keeps our own national secrets safe .
THE SURVIVOR
Josef Lewkowicz , Michael Calvin
RRP $ 35.00
One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust , The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man ' s unbreakable spirit , unshakeable faith , and extraordinary courage in the face of evil .
EMPRESS OF THE NILE
Lynne Olson RRP $ 36.99
Empress of the Nile is the fascinating story of the feisty French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam .
MINNIE
Marianne van Velzen
RRP $ 32.99
Minnie is the inspiring story of a feisty pioneering woman who sought freedom and adventure in the outback and became the first woman to work as an opal miner in Australia .
THE BOOK OF ROADS AND KINGDOMS
Richard Fidler RRP $ 45.00
The Book of Roads & Kingdoms is the story of the medieval wanderers who travelled out to the edges of the known world during Islam ' s fabled Golden Age .
CONVICT ORPHANS Lucy Frost RRP $ 34.99
Thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in latenineteenth-century Australia , yet their stories have been hidden until now . Lucy Frost has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans .
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THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBEY
Grantlee Kieza RRP $ 34.99
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey is the extraordinary story of Australia ’ s first female entrepreneur and the most powerful woman in colonial history .
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SHE AND HER PRETTY FRIEND
Danielle Scrimshaw
RRP $ 35.99
Throughout history , women ’ s relationships have been downgraded and diminished . Instead of lovers , they are documented as particularly close friends . She and Her Pretty Friend aims to dispel this myth .
Mothers
WERE THE ONLY ONES YOU COULD DEPEND ON TO TELL THE WHOLE , UNVARNISHED TRUTH .
– Margaret Dilloway , How to Be an American Housewife
POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022
TELLING TENNANT ’ S STORY
Dean Ashenden RRP $ 34.99
In a riveting combination of memoir , reportage and political and intellectual history , Dean Ashenden traces the strange career of the great Australian silence
– in Tennant Creek and across the nation .
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