Josef Skvorecky The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz...

Chris Ayres  Chris 'risk averse' Ayres saw journalism as his ticket to schmoozing with celebrities and penning pompous opinion pieces. Instead he landed a plane ticket to Iraq. An extraordinary...

Paul Harris One man's search for the truth in war-torn Sierra Leone, where the rules of civilized society don't apply...Journalist Danny Kellerman receives an urgent letter from an ex-lover in...

Joel Chasnoff Look at me. Do you see me? Do you see me in my olive-green uniform, beret, and shiny black boots? Do you see the assault rifle slung across...

Mara Moustafine WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD 2003 COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION AWARD SHORTLISTED NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2004 SHORTLISTED KIRIYAMA PRIZE 2004 SHORTLISTED TASMANIA PACIFIC BICENTENARY HISTORY PRIZE 2004...

Kristin Hannah From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of...

Robert M Gates 'As I look back, there is a parallel theme to my years at war: love. By that I mean the love - there is no other word...

Ruta Sepetys It's 1941 and fifteen-year-old artist Lina Vilkas is on Stalin's extermination list. Deported to a prison camp in Siberia, Lina fights for her life, fearless, risking everything to...

Ida Fink Ida Fink's first collection of short stories, A Scrap of Time, was universally hailed as a masterpiece. Traces continues Fink's portrait of life in Nazi-occupied Poland, of men and women otherwise buried...

Conn Iggulden He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin's young life was shaped by a series...

Uri Dan How the Israeli Army turned defeat into victory during the October War, 1973 April 1, 1975 by E.L. Special Edition

Devin Murphy A DUTCH SEAFARER, TURNED SMUGGLER.In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age...