Matilda

Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake

Matilda is a brilliant and sensitive child, but her parents think of her only as a nuisance. Even before she is five years old, she has read Dickens and Hemingway and still her parents think of her as a pest. So she decides to get back at them. Her platinum-haired mother and car salesman father are no m...

The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi

Robin de Crespigny

Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggleris the gripping, inspring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq to become 'the Oskar Schindler of Asia'.When Ali Al Jenabi flees Saddam Hussein's torture chambers, he is forced to leave his family behind in Iraq. What follows is an incredible international ...

Reconstruction: Australia after COVID

John Edwards

What kind of future do Australians have? Until the coronavirus pandemic, nearly two-thirds of Australians had never experienced an economic slump in their working lives. Indeed, nearly half were not yet born when the Australian economy last tipped into recession. Creating a path for Australia through th...