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The Ellis Laws: Penguin Special by Bob Ellis (Director)
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials
In these witty, outrageous ten laws, beloved polymath Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, youth and old age, competence and charisma. He explains why, among other things: power flows to the most boring man in the room, people are forgiven for almost anything if they are tall enough
The First Dismissal by Luke Slattery
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Category: Australia | Series: Penguin Specials
While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far away in New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of the 'fair go'. Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed that a person's worth - be they gentry, infantry or convict - lay in ...Show more
The Girl with the Dogs: Penguin Special by Anna Funder
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials
'To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction – the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she ...Show more
The Girl with the Dogs: Penguin Special by Anna Funder
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction - the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she dec ...Show more
The People's Bard by Nancy Pellegrini
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Category: Accessories | Series: Penguin Specials
"Shakespeare is, arguably, Britain's most famous literary icon. So how did this uniquely Anglophone playwright come to China? From the first staging of the Merchant of Venice in 1913, to experimental new interpretations on the Chinese stage, his plays touch on universal themes, of love and loss, revenge ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the House of Bo by John Garnaut
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials
When news of the murder trial of prominent Communist Party leader Bo Xilai's wife reached Western attention, it was apparent that, as with many events in the secretive upper echelons of Chinese politics, there was more to the story. Now, as the Party's 18th National Congress oversees the biggest leaders ...Show more
The Simple Life by Rhonda Hetzel
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Category: Do It Yourself | Series: Penguin Specials
Rhonda Hetzel feels passionately that living simply leads to a richer, more fulfilling existence. Having made the decision to live frugally, embrace sustainability and opt out of the capitalist consumerist mindset, she set about working out how to achieve her goal, learning traditional skills, reducing ...Show more
The Tunnel by Dennis McIntosh
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Specials
Annotation. Resuming his story where Beaten by a Blow left off, Dennis McIntosh gives an eye-opening account of seven years working underground, and how it impelled him to turn his life around.When Dennis McIntosh first walked onto the construction site for the tunnel running from Werribee, in Melbourne ...Show more
Utzon and the Sydney Opera House (Penguin Special) by Daryl Dellora
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Category: Australia | Series: Penguin Specials
Jorn Utzon designed the Sydney Opera House so that every element would be in harmony. But its construction, while it began in just that way, ended in complete discord. The visionary state government that commissioned the project was replaced by one that did not appreciate it and stopped funding it. Utzo ...Show more
What Would Gandhi Do? by Michael Kirby
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials
Former High Court justice Michael Kirby reflects on the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, analysing how the Mahatma might respond to some pressing issues facing modern society
What's Wrong with Diplomacy?: The Future of Diplomacy and the Case of China and the UK by Kerry Brown
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials
Traditional methods of diplomacy are fast becoming antiquated. Secrecy, pomp and elitism may have dictated diplomatic strategy of the Cold War era, but in a digitised twenty-first century, inclusivity and transparency are values of increasing importance. Access to information is being democratised for a ...Show more
You're Just Too Good to be True (Penguin Special) by Sofija Stefanovic
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Category: Accessories | Series: Penguin Specials
Sofija Stefanovic visits her eighty-year-old friend Bill and suspects he's being scammed over the internet - not for the first time. Compelled by Bill's devastating stories of online dating, heartbreak and bankruptcy, Sofija gets drawn into the underworld of romance scams. Her investigations take her to ...Show more