<![CDATA[The Book Company: New Products - General]]> https://www.thebookco.com Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:27:06 +0000 <![CDATA[The Powerbroker (Mark Leibler: An Australian Jewish Life)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-powerbroker-9781925835809 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:47:48 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-powerbroker-9781925835809 The Powerbroker (Mark Leibler: An Australian Jewish Life) by Michael Gawenda, 9781925835809From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in the world bar Israel. Mark Leibler grew up in this community, and in time became a leader of it. This book shows how Leibler rose..

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]]> The Powerbroker (Mark Leibler: An Australian Jewish Life) by Michael Gawenda, 9781925835809From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in the world bar Israel. Mark Leibler grew up in this community, and in time became a leader of it. This book shows how Leibler rose..

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]]> <![CDATA[The Fatal Lure of Politics (The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-fatal-lure-of-politics-9781925835748 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:47:33 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-fatal-lure-of-politics-9781925835748 The Fatal Lure of Politics (The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe) by Terry Irving, 9781925835748Renowned Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) had a lifelong fascination with socialist politics. In his early life he was active in the Australian labour movement and wrote How Labour Governs (1923), the world’s first study of parliamentary socialism. Howe..

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]]> The Fatal Lure of Politics (The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe) by Terry Irving, 9781925835748Renowned Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) had a lifelong fascination with socialist politics. In his early life he was active in the Australian labour movement and wrote How Labour Governs (1923), the world’s first study of parliamentary socialism. Howe..

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]]> <![CDATA["I Wonder" (The Life and Work of Ken Inglis)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/i-wonder-the-life-and-work-of-ken-inglis-9781925835717 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:47:25 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/i-wonder-the-life-and-work-of-ken-inglis-9781925835717 "I Wonder" (The Life and Work of Ken Inglis) by Peter Browne, Seumas Spark, 9781925835717Ken Inglis was one of Australia’s most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach — summed up by the recurring query, ‘I wonder…’ — won him a large and appreciative audience. Whether he was writing about ..

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]]> "I Wonder" (The Life and Work of Ken Inglis) by Peter Browne, Seumas Spark, 9781925835717Ken Inglis was one of Australia’s most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach — summed up by the recurring query, ‘I wonder…’ — won him a large and appreciative audience. Whether he was writing about ..

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]]> <![CDATA[Geoffrey Blainey (Writer, Historian, Controversialist)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/geoffrey-blainey-9781925835625 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:47:09 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/geoffrey-blainey-9781925835625 Geoffrey Blainey (Writer, Historian, Controversialist) by Richard Allsop, 9781925835625Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia’s ‘greatest living historian’, a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the country’s past as The Tyranny of Distance and Triumph of the Nomads. However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about A..

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]]> Geoffrey Blainey (Writer, Historian, Controversialist) by Richard Allsop, 9781925835625Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia’s ‘greatest living historian’, a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the country’s past as The Tyranny of Distance and Triumph of the Nomads. However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about A..

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]]> <![CDATA[Buru Island (A Prison Memoir)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/buru-island-a-prison-memoir-9781925835564 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:46:54 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/buru-island-a-prison-memoir-9781925835564 Buru Island (A Prison Memoir) by Jennifer Lindsay, Hersri Setiawan, 9781925835564Buru Island was the site of Indonesia’s most remote and infamous prison camp. In the wake of the 1965 repression of the political Left, between 1969 and 1979 approximately 12,000 men were held on Buru without formal charge or trial. During their detention prisoners suffered torture, forced labour ..

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]]> Buru Island (A Prison Memoir) by Jennifer Lindsay, Hersri Setiawan, 9781925835564Buru Island was the site of Indonesia’s most remote and infamous prison camp. In the wake of the 1965 repression of the political Left, between 1969 and 1979 approximately 12,000 men were held on Buru without formal charge or trial. During their detention prisoners suffered torture, forced labour ..

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]]> <![CDATA[Siauw Giok Tjhan (Bicultural leader in emerging Indonesia)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/siauw-giok-tjhan-9781925523362 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:44:06 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/siauw-giok-tjhan-9781925523362 Siauw Giok Tjhan (Bicultural leader in emerging Indonesia) by Tiong Djin Siauw, 9781925523362A revealing biography of a key figure in Indonesia's tumultuous 20th century. This is the story of Siauw Giok Tjhan, a Chinese-Indonesian leader who navigated the complex currents of Indonesian politics from the colonial era to the fall of Soeharto. Was he a champion of integratio..

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]]> Siauw Giok Tjhan (Bicultural leader in emerging Indonesia) by Tiong Djin Siauw, 9781925523362A revealing biography of a key figure in Indonesia's tumultuous 20th century. This is the story of Siauw Giok Tjhan, a Chinese-Indonesian leader who navigated the complex currents of Indonesian politics from the colonial era to the fall of Soeharto. Was he a champion of integratio..

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]]> A revealing biography of a key figure in Indonesia's tumultuous 20th century. This is the story of Siauw Giok Tjhan, a Chinese-Indonesian leader who navigated the complex currents of Indonesian politics from the colonial era to the fall of Soeharto. Was he a champion of integratio..]]> <![CDATA[A White Hot Flame (Mary Montgomerie Bennett - Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/a-white-hot-flame-9781925523188 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:43:36 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/a-white-hot-flame-9781925523188 A White Hot Flame (Mary Montgomerie Bennett - Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice) by Sue Taffe, 9781925523188Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881–1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal Australians had their citizens’ rights curtailed by repressive state laws. From her late fortie..

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]]> A White Hot Flame (Mary Montgomerie Bennett - Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice) by Sue Taffe, 9781925523188Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881–1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal Australians had their citizens’ rights curtailed by repressive state laws. From her late fortie..

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]]> <![CDATA[A Naga Odyssey (Visier's Long Way Home)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/a-naga-odyssey-visiers-long-way-home-9781925495829 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:42:42 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/a-naga-odyssey-visiers-long-way-home-9781925495829 A Naga Odyssey (Visier's Long Way Home) by Richard Broome, Visier Sanyü, 9781925495829Visier Meyasetsu Sanyü, his family and fellow villagers of Khonoma, fled for their lives to the jungles of Nagaland in 1956. All survived privations and starvation for over two years. Visier emerged from the jungle aged eight and into a turbulent world altered by Western influence, civil war and c..

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]]> A Naga Odyssey (Visier's Long Way Home) by Richard Broome, Visier Sanyü, 9781925495829Visier Meyasetsu Sanyü, his family and fellow villagers of Khonoma, fled for their lives to the jungles of Nagaland in 1956. All survived privations and starvation for over two years. Visier emerged from the jungle aged eight and into a turbulent world altered by Western influence, civil war and c..

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]]> <![CDATA[Saved to Remember (Raoul Wallenberg, Budapest 1944 and After)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/saved-to-remember-9781925377088 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:38:42 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/saved-to-remember-9781925377088 Saved to Remember (Raoul Wallenberg, Budapest 1944 and After) by Frank Vajda, 9781925377088Frank Vajda, a major figure in Australian neurology, was a boy in Budapest, Hungary, during the Second World War. In the care of his courageous and ever-resourceful mother, he survived the attempt by Hitler’s Nazis and a fascist Hungarian militia to murder him, his family and the rest of the Jews ..

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]]> Saved to Remember (Raoul Wallenberg, Budapest 1944 and After) by Frank Vajda, 9781925377088Frank Vajda, a major figure in Australian neurology, was a boy in Budapest, Hungary, during the Second World War. In the care of his courageous and ever-resourceful mother, he survived the attempt by Hitler’s Nazis and a fascist Hungarian militia to murder him, his family and the rest of the Jews ..

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]]> <![CDATA[Double-Act (The Remarkable Lives and Careers of Googie Withers and John McCallum)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/double-act-9781922235725 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:31:26 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/double-act-9781922235725 Double-Act (The Remarkable Lives and Careers of Googie Withers and John McCallum) by Brian McFarlane, 9781922235725Not many can boast of careers that lasted successfully for nearly seventy years, but that is what both Googie Withers and John McCallum achieved. Googie portrayed everything from brazen murderesses to Lady Bracknell, taking in blonde nitwits, wartime Resistance workers, lady farmers and Shakespear..

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]]> Double-Act (The Remarkable Lives and Careers of Googie Withers and John McCallum) by Brian McFarlane, 9781922235725Not many can boast of careers that lasted successfully for nearly seventy years, but that is what both Googie Withers and John McCallum achieved. Googie portrayed everything from brazen murderesses to Lady Bracknell, taking in blonde nitwits, wartime Resistance workers, lady farmers and Shakespear..

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