'Everyone's afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons might be the ones to do it ... This book is the culmination of many years of writing about power, abuse, privilege, male entitlement and rape culture. After all that, here's... read more

I fell in love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchair who sold newspapers every afternoon outside the Empire Hotel in Annandale. Whenever I glimpsed him in the distance I would break into a run, jump onto his lap, a... read more

Historian, essayist, speechwriter, humourist, anti-cant crusader; Don Watson has a gift for luring us to the nub of a matter, or at least to a new view of it, there to grin or grind our teeth at the spectacle. Over the years Don Watson has written on pol... read more

A compelling,moving account of the long journey to marriage equality in Australia. Yes Yes Yes,written by two advocates intimately involved in the struggle for marriageequality, reveals the untold story of how a g... read more

Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of. An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 17... read more

"The ultimate literary bucket list." --THE WASHINGTON POST          Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaini... read more

'An immensely talented young writer ... Her fearlessness renews one's faith in the power of literature' George Saunders, author of Lincoln in he Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize Something has happened to Peach. It hurts to walk but she staggers home to parents that don't seem ... read more

On Lustand On Longingtogether for the first time. When On Lustwas first published it caused a media sensation- Blanche d'Alpuget wrote of a pillar of society who had molested children and of events that ended in mystery. Now she reveals all. On Longingcaused a similar ... read more

Renowned girl hero and feisty author Susannah McFarlane presents an illustrated collection of 'tilted' fairytales featuring girls with smarts.

Corrosive, mad and frequently fatal, indignation is a great destructive force in human affairs, and just as often a wellspring of mirth and merriment. Don Watson traces this seemingly ineradicable emotion in a journey that takes us, via his forebears, Flaubert and The Sopranos,... read more

In this crisp and timely essay, Laura Tingle examines political leadership in general - some profiles in courage, and cunning - as well as styles of leadership. She looks at Macron and Merkel, Keating and Obama. Ting... read more

A conversation-shifting book urging 21st-century women to understand their anger, embrace its power, and use it as a tool for positive change   'How many women cry when angry because we've held it in for so long? How many discover that anger turned inward is depression?... read more