I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Blending personal memoir with frontline reportage, this is an intimate and fearless portrait of contemporary Russia by one of Russia's most prominent independent journalists An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and fearless cri de coeur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritari ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
** Winner 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ** A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy ...Show more
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful novel about the shared grief of a Palestinan and an Israeli. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS. WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER. CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i ...Show more
Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom by Rebecca Ruth Gould
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Having been accused of antisemitism for writing an account of the injustices she witnessed in Palestine, Rebecca Ruth Gould embarks on a journey to understand how the fight against antisemitism has been weaponized not to defend civil rights, but to deny them. In this exploration, she comes to a broader ...Show more
Kremlin Winter - Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012.Putin's ...Show more
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid I. Khalidi
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any peop ...Show more
The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study' by Orlando Figes
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian sch ...Show more
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
A classic and vivid history of Ukraine, fully updated to cover the Euromaidan Revolution in 2014 and ongoing crisis in the Donbass. Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium, Ukraine finally won independence with the collap ...Show more
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City by Matthew Teller
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Original and illuminating ... what a good book this is' Jonathan Dimbleby'A love letter to the people of the Old City' Jerusalem PostIn Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn't reflect the reality of ...Show more
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia's leader by Philip Short
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The monumental biography of the most influential leader on the world stage in the last twenty years. Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his nei ...Show more
Russia: Myths and Realities by Rodric Braithwaite
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A short and pithy introduction to the history of Russia as we know it today.
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the landscape, the language and the people living within these shifting borders. In this authoritative book, Harvard Profess ...Show more