The Hero Maker: A Biography of Paul Brickhill

Stephen Dando-Collins

The Dam Busters, The Great Escapeand Reach for the Skywere all written by Paul Brickhill, an Australian hero of WWII. 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 25th anniversary of his death.It was 1956 and the writer from Sydney's lower North Shore had every reason to feel blessed. Former jo...

Lance

Vladimir Nabokov

The illegible signature of teetering disaster'Three great stories - The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance - the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel....

Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (Vintage Voyages)

Tim Butcher

VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhen Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan...

Morrison's Mission: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: How a beginner reshaped Australian foreign policy

Paul Kelly

When he became Prime Minister in 2018, Scott Morrison was a foreign policy amateur confronted by unprecedented challenges- an assertive Beijing and a looming rivalry between the two biggest economies in world history, the United States and China. Morrison plunged into foreign and security policy by maki...