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It's almost impossible to get lost these days; the fastest and most direct route arrives with the press of a few keys. But what of the joys of the unexpected discovered off the grid?En Route is an ode to wandering through time and place, meeting personalities with no...
How is hate shaping our society? When nationalist populism has the capacity to threaten social cohesion, it's time to question the powers at play. On Hate is an urgent call for citizens to defend democracy against extremism. 'A searing analysis of hate, and what happens...
Most of us believe in fairness. Why then do we have creeping inequality in the land of the fair go?The answer lies in stagnant wage rises, gender pay inequity, insecure work and the lack of real opportunities for all while corporations are still consuming large profits...
They're labelled as selfish, as 'deliberately barren', and sometimes as crazy old cat ladies, but increasingly women are choosing to be childfree. Over the next few decades couples without children are set to outnumber those who have them. Tory Shepherd looks at how...
'Australians' fervent belief in luck is deeply etched in our consciousness. More than with the citizens of other countries, it affects the way we see most things. When someone escapes serious injury or death in an accident, we remark on how lucky they were. We don't say...
Merit has very little to do with the increasing dominance of men in the modern Liberal Party. Yet Liberal women continue to defend it. Until now. OnMerit explores this imbalance, its implications for the party's future, and how a pair of red shoes may spark a rebellion...
As extreme weather becomes the norm, scientists agree that our climate is changing. But it seems too many of our leaders aren't listening to the science and are failing to act.In On Hope, one of the lead organisers of the Australian Climate strike, 17-year-old Daisy...
John Birmingham's father died. And his life fell apart. The next six months were spent grinding through the black forests of depression until he finally emerged out of the darkness onto sunlit upland. A unique yet universal story, On Father reaches out to everyone who...
Acclaimed journalist Leigh Sales has her doubts, and thinks you should, too.Her classic personal essay carries a message of truth, scrutiny and accountability-a much-needed pocket-sized antidote to fake news.Donald Trump, the post-truth world and the instability of...
On Lust & Longing brings two of Blanche D'Alpuget's prominent works together. WhenOn Lust was first published it caused a media sensation: d'Alpuget wrote of a pillar of society who had molested children and of events that ended in mystery. She revealed all.On Longing...
The internet has shaken the foundations of life: public and private lives are wrought by the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week news cycle that means no one is ever off duty. On Disruption is a report from the coalface of that change: what has happened, will it keep happening,...
How much do you think you could take? Try this: your husband dies suddenly and, weeks later, while you're still grieving, you're diagnosed with cancer. Would you keep fighting?Newspaper editor Jill Baker arrived home to find her husband George dead on the bedroom floor....
**WINNER OF THE 2020 DANGER PRIZE**From the acclaimed author of THE SUITCASE BABY and THE SUICIDE BRIDE, the fascinating story of a series of horrific murders that began in 1930s Sydney - and a killer who remained at large for over two decades.In December 1932, as the...
'How did a kid from the country who dreamed of joining the Victoria Police, end up on the wrong side of the bars? There are a lot of reasons, and I hope this story will help clarify some of them, not only for you, the reader, but for me too, because a lot of the time I...
Why is violence against women endemic, and how do we stop it?Every two minutes, police are called to a family violence matter. Every week, a woman is killed by a current or former partner.This is Australia's national emergency.Violence against women is preventable. It...
It is a familiar and comforting story: a mother's unreserved love across decades and continents. The unexpected death of Sarah Ferguson's mother has brought her to understand their relationship with a new clarity and to appreciate the woman beyond the mother. On...
Why was Malcolm Turnbull removed and how did Scott Morrison emerge as Australia's thirtieth prime minister?On Mutiny is the inside story, a blow-by-blow exposé of the plotting, double dealing and numbers game by politicians in the most brutal period in Australian...
Internationally bestselling author Nikki Gemmell writes on the power of quiet in today's shouty world. Quiet comes as a shock in these troubled times. Quietism means 'devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will ... a calm acceptance of things as they are'....
Why does identity demand a choice between black and white? Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Are we hard wired for hate? Stan Grant argues that it is time to leave identity behind and to embrace cosmopolitanism. On Identity...
She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder.She is the beat, the rage.She is every piece of violence imagined on the skin.She is the near miss.She is the woman you once were, the woman you could be, the woman you are.She is a triumph of our shared history, is every...
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