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Boom by Malcolm Knox
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Mining divides the country - development against conservation, north-and-west against south-and-east, pro-tax against anti-tax. It's an important industry, but why do passions run so high? What does mining really mean to us? And how much do we understand about our underground history? Although we favour ...Show more
Bradman's War by Malcolm Knox
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The 1948 'Invincibles' - the only Australians to complete a tour of England undefeated - stormed the record books, even if Bradman's final innings left him forever stranded on a Test batting average of 99.94. In his absorbing account, Malcolm Knox exposes the mixed feelings among the fans, commentators ...Show more
Bradman's War by Malcolm Knox
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Hailed as one of the greatest cricket teams of all time, the 1948 'Invincibles' are the only Australians to complete a tour of England undefeated. Their crushing victories under the guidance of captain Don Bradman on his final tour brought cultural and statistical glories, notwithstanding Bradman's duck ...Show more
NEVER A GENTLEMAN'S GAME THE SCANDAL by Malcolm Knox
$39.95 AUD
Category: Sport
Compared with the controversies of contemporary cricket - riven as it is with match-fixing, gambling, cheating and national politics - most people think of the early days of Test cricket as a time of gentlemanly competition and camaraderie, with any disputes settled by Queensberry Rules over a glass of ...Show more
Never a Gentlemen's Game by Malcolm Knox
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sport
Compared to the controversies of contemporary cricket - riven as it is with match-fixing, gambling, cheating and national politics - most people think of the early days of Test cricket as a time of gentlemanly competition and camaraderie, with any disputes settled by Queensberry Rules over a glass of po ...Show more
On Obsession by Malcolm Knox
$4.99 AUD
$9.99 (50% off)
Category: Gift Books | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
This series pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with some of the big themes in life. Malcolm Knox unpicks obsession in all its manifold forms across time and space.
Supermarket Monsters: the Price of Coles and Woolworths' Dominance: Redback by Malcolm Knox
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Redback Ser.
Down, down . . . In hardware, petrol, general merchandise and liquor, and above all in groceries, Coles and Woolworths jointly rule Australia's retail landscape. On average, every man, woman and child in this country spends $100 a week across their many outlets. What does such dominance mean for supplie ...Show more
The Captains: The Story Behind Australia's Second Most Important Job by Malcolm Knox
$35.00 AUD
Category: Hobbies
The Australian cricket team has been a glittering thread running through the course of our national history, personifying the dreams and disappointments of a changing nation. The most singular individual inside that team is the captain, a human being full of human ideals and frustrations and quarrels an ...Show more
The First Friend by Malcolm Knox
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A tour de force set in 1938 Stalin Soviet Union, this chilling black comedy it is at once a satire and a thriller, a survivor's tale in which a father has to walk a tightrope every day to save his family from a monster and a monstrous society. 'Crackling with energy, irony, wit and terror, The First Fri ...Show more
The Life by Malcolm Knox
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"He looked into the Pacific and the Pacific looked back into him." The Life tells the story of former-world-champion Australian surfer, Dennis Keith, from inside the very heart of the fame and madness that is 'The Life'. Now bloated and paranoid, Keith is holed up in his mother's retirement village, shu ...Show more
The Life: A Novel by Malcolm Knox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
He looked into the Pacific and the Pacific looked back into him. The Life tells the story of former-world-champion Australian surfer, Dennis Keith, from inside the very heart of the fame and madness that is 'The Life'. Now bloated and paranoid, former Australian surfing legend Dennis Keith is holed up ...Show more
Truth Is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated by Malcolm Knox
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Why did the sacking of rugby player Israel Folau over his social media posts become one of the nation's most polarizing controversies? How could one man's religious views activate so many people in modern Australia? And what does the sides people found themselves on tell us about the kind of country we' ...Show more
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