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W is for Witchcraft
A-Z of Horror, #23
2024
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W is for Witchcraft is the twenty-third book in an epic series of twenty-six horror anthologies. Within these pages you will find a selection of thirteen haunting tales from some of the most skilled independent horror authors writing today. From 1600s Salem to the modern day, from tales of revenge to digital curses, W is for Witchcraft will have you reading on in dread as you discover just how malevolent and bloodthirsty witches can be.
2022
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Michael Boddy and Bob Ellis' rambunctious and unreliable musical odyssey through the life and times of American-born King O'Malley, founding member of the Australian House of Representatives, father of our national capital and advocate for the creation of a national bank.
2009
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In the free market we trust.Look where that's got us.With our economy based upon money as illusory as God's love, Bob Ellis calls time on free market fundamentalism.We put our faith in a system that awards do-nothing CEOs with millions as their companies collapse and provoke a global crisis. We judge corporate success on the number of sackings, fund the privatisation of essential services with public money and favour cheap goods disco...
The Ellis Laws
Penguin Special
2014
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In these witty, outrageous ten laws, the well-beloved gadfly, sage and wordsmith Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, competence and charisma, youth and old age. He explains why bicycles encourage premarital sex, moving house too many times drives humans mad, 'the rising price of a roof ' is the root of all economic evil, and, most ominously, 'power flows to the most boring man in the room'. He alleges, pretty persuasively, that all CEOs – except, perhaps, George Lucas – should...
2013
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'A very readable, occasionally apocalyptic, almanac of ''interesting times.''' The Age'He writes beautifully and his ability to pick out the human stories among the headlines is what makes the book worth reading.' Weekly Times'????? He...write[s] like an angel, albeit an avenging one with a taste for the salacious.' Good ReadingIn 2011, history was made and the future broken...One ...
2014
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Alana Dorset was savagely raped. Zania, Fedilia and others, by chance, become her bonded friends. Each has a story to tell about the lengths men had gone to use them, harm them and even murder those women unable to defend against them. Is it right that because of their undeniable beauty, they should become targets? The women all have the same question ... should those men pay? The power of woman is, more often than not, underestimated by men. When they decide to fight back, men had better ...
And So it Went
Night Thoughts in a Year of Change
2009
EN
'One of the better books on our time and the fools we have lately survived. Like War and Peace and the Iliad, it is abundant, instructive, exhilarating and cathartic.' BOB CARRFrom the suicide bombing of Glasgow Airport and the flooding of England to the horse flu and the Chinese earthquake and the Bhutto assassination, from the rise of Turnbull and Rudd to the slow disintegration of Howard, Ruddock, Olmert, Blair, Musharreff, Mugabe, Costello, Nel...
One Hundred Days of Summer
How we got to where we are
2010
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Written in Bob Ellis's inimitable style, this is a very personal book about the recent period of intense political change in Australia. Ellis's diary-style narrative starts on 12 November, 2009 (when Rhys Muldoon picks Ellis up from Parliament House and drives him to visit the poet Les Murray at Bunyah for some lively political discussions) and takes us through to when Bob's sometime mentor, Mike Rann, faces his recent assailant in in an Adelaide court. The book includes coverage and analy...
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21 Years Behind the Mike at RN's Late Night Live
2012
EN
Reflections on 21 years behind the microphone at one of Radio National's flagship programs, Late Night Live, the people and the places which made it the cutting edge radio it continues to be today.For 21 years Phillip Adams has been the witty, smooth and informed voice of Late Night Live on ABC Radio National. In the studio he bats questions to world leaders, thinkers, ideologues, crackpots and gurus. But what about the stories that don't make it to air? the ones about the guests wh...
Patronising Bastards
How the Elites Betrayed Britain
2017
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain, Quentin Letts, comes his blistering new book on how Britain's out-of-touch, illiberal elite fills its boots.'HILARIOUS' Daily Mail'With its vicious takedowns, Quentin Letts' laugh-out-loud Patronising Bastards will have the lefty-elite running scared' The SunNot since Marie Antoinette said 'Let...
2001
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'John Le Carré meets Bill Bryson with a touch of Yes Minister' - the Irish TimesEamon Delaney's controversial Number 1 bestselling exposé of backstage life at the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.From the lonely nights at the Soviet Desk to glamorous soirées during Ireland's presidency of the emerging European Union, Eamon Delaney kept his ear to the ground - a useful skill when wedged precariously between Iran, Iraq and Israel at the UN General Assembly....
2013
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Panic (noun). A sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour.Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you'll uncover an extraordinary level of fear.Cronulla. Henson. Hanson. Wik. Haneef. The boats.Panic shows all of David Marr's characteristic insight, quick wit and brilliant prose as he cuts through the froth and fury that have kept Australia simmering over ...











