HarperCollins
One Way Ticket: The untold story of the Bali nine by Cindy Wockner and Madonna King
by Marina Cornish •
There, Where the Pepper Grows by Bem Le Hunte & Behind the Moon by Hsu-Ming Teo
by Lisa Gorton •
Rivkin Unauthorised: The meteoric rise and tragic fall of an unorthodox money man by Andrew Main
by Philip Clark •
Platform Papers No. 4: by Robyn Archer & The Woman I Am by Helen Reddy
by Kerryn Goldsworthy •
A Tuesday Thing by Kate Shayler & God's Callgirl by Carla van Raay
by Joy Hooton •
Reflections in Glass: Trends and tensions in the contemporary Anglican church by Peter Carnley
by Muriel Porter •
Blindside by J.R. Carroll & Degrees of Connection by Jon Clearly
by Rick Thompson •
As Eric Hobsbawn points out in his autobiography, Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (2002), ‘the world needs historians more than ever, especially skeptical ones’. History, however, is not a popular subject in today’s schools. Three of these four books make attempts, variously successful, to engage young readers in a sense of the past. The other is a bizarre compilation of odd details, and could be considered an account of the history of certain sciences; it almost fits into the historical ambit.
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