John Edwards

Described as 'a huge and highly accessible contribution to Australian political history' (SMH), John Edwards' magisterial biography of our greatest Prime Minister concludes with the events that shaped our future: the nation at war, our new relationship with the United States, and Curtin's early death, just before victory. The first volume of John Curtin's War was recognized as 'a landmark...

Confronted by US-China conflict, decaying global rules, disruptive new technologies and increasing inequality, Australia needs to rethink its place in the world. Overhaul presents a new way of thinking about Australia's future, demanding a renewed agenda for Australian politics and statecraft. Despite three US recessions, a global financial crisis, slowing growth in China, the Euro crisis, bloody conflicts, and frequent...

A new appraisal of the first Tudor queen, her European connections, her ambitions and intentions, and the religious violence that stained her short reign The life story of Mary I—daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon—is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment of...

Reconstruction: Australia after COVID explores the economic prospects for Australians in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, presented by one of Australia's foremost economic experts. 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. In fact, nearly half were not yet born when the...

Volume one of a major new biography of arguably our greatest (and one of our most underrated) Prime Ministers, who shaped modern Australia. John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific. Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941,...