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I know these characters, I’ve met them — the blackfellas and the whitefellas.
Professor Mick Dodson AM

An explosive plot and gritty characters drive an action-packed tale.
James Phelan, Author of The Jed Walker and Lachlan Fox Thrillers

A thought-provoking blast of a novel
Barry Maitland, Author of The Brock and Kolla novels and The harry Belltree Trilogy

Spooks, terrorists, geopolitical friction, and a simmering love affair: a fast-paced thriller that’s got everything.
Lindsay Tanner, Author of Sideshow and The Comfort Zone

Masterfully written scenes including a spectacular desert battle on motorbikes and a protracted shark attack.
theage.com.au

Thoroughly researched and thought-provoking … Ehrlich’s five pillars are the real key to reducing the ongoing carnage from modern diseases that have strained and almost broken our current inappropriately called “health system”.
Dr Ross Walker

Well-written and accessible … a comprehensive walk through the whole of holistic medicine. But this is no simple opinion piece: everything Ehrlich says is either backed up in the text or with references that people can look up.
Dr Carole Hungerford, Author of Good Health in the 21st Century

A Life Less Stressed is your ultimate go-to guide to health and wellbeing. Grab this book with both hands, read it, keep it close, and lean on it as you would your best mate. It won't let you down!
Deborah Hutton

Just what the doctor ordered for those seeking practical ways to combat stress and take control of their health.
Hobart Mercury

It’s an holistic guide to the stresses capable of wearing you down and the simple changes you can make to lead a happier, healthier and more resilient life. You can’t lose.
Better Homes & Gardens

Well-written and accessible … a comprehensive walk through the whole of holistic medicine. But this is no simple opinion piece: everything Ehrlich says is either backed up in the text or with references that people can look up.
Dr Carole Hungerford, Author of Good Health in the 21st Century

A Life Less Stressed is your ultimate go-to guide to health and wellbeing. Grab this book with both hands, read it, keep it close, and lean on it as you would your best mate. It won't let you down!
Deborah Hutton

Just what the doctor ordered for those seeking practical ways to combat stress and take control of their health.
Hobart Mercury

Thoroughly researched and thought-provoking … Ehrlich’s five pillars are the real key to reducing the ongoing carnage from modern diseases that have strained and almost broken our current inappropriately called “health system”.
Dr Ross Walker

It’s an holistic guide to the stresses capable of wearing you down and the simple changes you can make to lead a happier, healthier and more resilient life. You can’t lose.
Better Homes & Gardens

Not only full of insights but also surprisingly funny. Read it to understand why the world became fat, how to reverse the epidemic — and how to stay thin yourself.
Andreas Eenfeldt, MD, Founder of dietdoctor.com

Fung zeroes in on why insulin resistance has become so prevalent and offers specific outside-the-box solutions that have emerged as the key to maximizing health.
Jimmy Moore, Author of Keto Clarity and Cholesterol Clarity

A fantastic book that exposes some of the world's most pervasive myths about obesity and weight management. A must read for anyone interested in the science of diet.
Kris Gunnars, Nutrition Researcher

‘Dr. Jason Fung’s explanation of insulin resistance and the accompanying insulin model of obesity is original, brilliant and game changing.
Zoë Harcombe, author of The Harcombe Diet and The Obesity Epidemic

In The Obesity Code, Dr. Jason Fung triumphs in explaining the core underlying causes of obesity and manages to simplify it in a way that anybody can understand. If more doctors and people were able to understand these causes and implement Dr. Fung's actionable advice then we would be able to start reversing the obesity epidemic tomorrow.
Sam Feltham, USA Today, World Fitness Elite Trainer of the Year

Graham Allison has been a source of inspiration for me as a student and diplomat. As with Essence of Decision, Destined for War again provides us with his penetrating insights into global politics in the 21st century and beyond.
Ban Ki-Moon, Former Secretary General of the United Nation

Graham Allison is one of the keenest observers of international affairs around. He consistently brings his deep understanding of history’s currents to today’s most difficult challenges and makes our toughest foreign policy dilemmas accessible to experts and everyday citizens alike. That’s why I regularly sought his counsel both as a senator and as vice president. In Destined for War, Allison lays out one of the defining challenges of our time—managing the critical relationship between China and the United States.
Joe Biden, Former Vice President of the United States

Can the US avoid confrontation with China? That is the geopolitical question of our age. In most cases, Thucydides was right: when a new power arises in the world, it results in a clash with the dominant power. This important and fascinating book extracts lessons for how we can avoid such a confrontation.
Walter Isaacson, Author of Steve Jobs and The Innovators

One of the most insightful and thought-provoking books I have ever read on the most important relationship in the world: the US and China. If Graham Allison is right—and I think he is—China and the US must heed the lessons in this superb study in order to build a strategic relationship that avoids a war which neither side would win.
General (RET.) David Petraeus, Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, Former Director of the CIA, and Former Commander of US Central Command

Thucydides’s Trap identifies a cardinal challenge to world order: the impact of a rising power on a ruling power. I read the book with great interest. I can only hope that the US-China relationship becomes the fifth case to resolve itself peacefully, rather than the 13th to result in war.
Henry Kissinger, Former United States Secretary of State

A provocative thesis on one of today's most pressing foreign policy issues and a page turner of the first order, Destined For War is a must read. Professor Allison writes with the propulsive narrative drive appropriate for such an immediate and danger-fraught topic. I can only hope that all senior policy experts read this timely book to prevent our country from falling into the trap Professor Allison so ably warns us against.
Christopher Reich, bestselling Author of Invasion of Privacy

Do China and America want war? No. Might they be compelled into conflict by severe structural stress? Yes. Thankfully, Allison charts an essential course to avoid a catastrophic collision. Destined for War will be studied and debated for decades.
Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia

An important new book.
Financial Times

Graham Allison has written a gripping book that decision-makers and citizens alike must read, digest, and act upon.
Samantha Power

You can bet that China’s leaders will read Allison’s warnings about Thucydides’s Trap. I only wish I could be as sure about America’s leaders. But every informed citizen should buy a copy.
Niall Ferguson

For policymakers, scholars, and citizens on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, Destined for War is essential reading.
Ash Carter

Graham Allison has written the most important foreign policy book of our time.
Sandy Winnefeld

Graham Allison is the Paul Revere of the nuclear age. In his brilliant book, Allison provides us with a heart stopping look into a future that may end as abruptly as the past began.
William Cohen

Essential, even indispensable reading for every diplomat—and financier or businessman — that contemplates China and its relations with the world.
Kurt Campbell

Destined for War is a must-read for anyone concerned about US-China relations. A gifted combination of scholarship with truly accessible writing.
Amitai Etzioni

Reading Destined for War and drawing from its lessons could help to save the lives of millions of people.
Klaus Schwab

If any book can stop a world war, it is this one. This gripping book is a must read for policy makers in both nations as well as the general public.
Sam Nunn

Surely another classic in the making, Destined for War is a brilliant example of ‘thinking in time,’ which — as the author shows — is against us.
Brendan Simms, Author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy

[Destined for War] sounds a useful, even important warning call.
Max Hastings, The Sunday Times

I hope people like Jeff Bezos read this timely book and resolve to build the political forces we need.
Dominic Cummings, The Spectator

Thought-provoking and very readable.
The Sunday Times

As a single volume on the shape of the gathering rivalry and co-operation between the United States and China, this book is to be highly recommended. It is clearly written with a popular audience in mind. As such it can join the ranks of a number of such books that explain a wide range of complex concepts and historical episodes in a way that the layperson can readily engage with.
NZ International Review

[A]rgue[s] persuasively that adjusting to this global power shift will require great skill on both sides if conflagration is to be avoided ... helpfully illustrated with maps and charts...with wide-ranging, erudite case studies that span human history ... this fine book show[s] that China intends to evict the United States from Asia in order to restore its dominance over what it considers its historic spheres of influence. Unfortunately, Washington is poorly prepared to deal with a China that strategises in terms of the symbolic undercurrents and sensitivities illuminated so dramatically by Allison.
Judith Shapiro, The New York Times Book Review

[A] brief but far-reaching book in which potted history is incisively deployed ... One of the many strengths of Destined for War is the restoration of the late Samuel Huntington’s 'Clash of Civilisations' theory, disparaged in the mid-1990s but subliminally gaining force by the day. Mr. Allison approvingly paraphrases Huntington’s notion that 'the Western myth of universal values' is 'not just naive but inimical to other civilisations, particularly the Confucian one with China at its centre.
Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal

Miracles Do Happen is a harrowing yet infinitely reassuring read. It is a reminder and a promise, as well as a testament to the value of a purer, simpler diction.
Bookanista

The book is a moving account of not only the Holocaust but of a young couple, alone in the world, rebuilding their lives halfway across the world.
The Jewish Chronicle

[A] moving story.
Sydney Morning Herald

This book is fluently written around a story that is set squarely in the world that Anderson knows so well … Richard Anderson is a good writer and a good observer of human behaviour.
Dominion Post Weekend, Wellington

A captivating, incredibly well-written rural crime novel … At its core, Retribution is about punishment and vengeance – the dark things that people do to get what they want. But it’s also a book about the frailty of humans – our emotional vulnerability, and our innate desire to be loved and accepted … Retribution is a ripping thriller, deeply Australian, and an absolute must-read for all crime fans.
Better Reading

This powerful novel has thrills and emotions to spare … the evocation of dust and heat all come together for a tense tale of human emotions at their rawest. A genuine discovery and a unique voice.
Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time

If you like your crime hot, gritty and dusty then this gem, set in rural Australia, is for you … A fine tale that’ll have you sweating with its heat and intensity.
Jon Wise, Weekend Sport

[A] slow-burning thriller that reads like a neo-Western … vividly captures the vast, rugged landscape and the brutal intensity of the heat in the back country.
Declan Burke, The Irish Times

Richard Anderson is … a fine writer … In lucid, unflashy prose, he relates how the theft of a priceless mare, retribution, results in a human pile-up for five utterly believable characters, good, bad and ugly.
Saga

Retribution is a good one, different, unusual and a refreshing twist on crime fiction as a whole … Elegantly written, beautifully evocative of the sense of place, and people in it, Richard Anderson knows that of which he writes.
Aust Crime Fiction

Retribution is full of interesting texture, fresh characters, authentic rural issues, and an absorbing storyline.
Craig Sisterson, Crime Watch

A lovely elegiac book about a horse and an unlikely love affair between a couple of lonely misfits … the book is a triumph of the very best kind of gritty Aussie writing.
Listener

Nigel Shadbolt is one of the most fascinating and important scientists alive today.
Jim Al-Khalili

There has never been a more important time to discuss what it means to be human, in the past, now, and in the future. This is a book for anyone interested in getting behind the headlines and understanding how technology is impacting our world. The writers are two masters in their field who are not only erudite but immensely humane and compassionate.
Martha Lane Fox

This is a brilliantly readable, genuinely cutting-edge book that is also often very entertaining. Of all the recent studies of automation and AI, The Digital Ape stands head and shoulders above the rest. Shadbolt and Hampson have written a landmark book.
Andrew Keen, Author of How to Fix the Future and The Internet is Not the Answer

All explore the relationship between the human animal and what might be its most momentous creation yet: artificial intelligence … In a series of wide-ranging chapters, the authors argue that human beings are not just distinguished by their ability to use tools but also largely shaped by it.
Weekend Australia

This admirable book, superbly researched and insightfully written, illuminates the profound and enduring consequences for so many Australian families whose loved ones were among the missing in World War I.
Ross McMullin, Author of Farewell, Dear People

Frances Whiting, Courier Mail

Kate Wild's Waiting for Elijah is brave, balanced, and profound; wrestling with the fatal police shooting of a young mentally ill man, Wild reveals a compelling investigation into mental illness and the police on the frontline of psychosis. A beautiful writer, Wild's Waiting for Elijah is a thrilling debut.
Anna Krien

[Waiting for Elijah] will appeal to readers of Helen Garner and Chloe Hooper … [Wild] explores her subject with great depth, compassion, and sensitivity … Essential reading.
Books+Publishing

At its simplest, Waiting for Elijah is an exploration of the devastating effects of a police force ill-equipped to deal with mental illness. Wild’s personal story, though, brings a depth to her investigation, and she doesn’t grab for any easy take-home messages. Instead, she probes the complexities of the issue, and reaches finally for a kind of forgiveness – for the policeman who shot Elijah, but also, perhaps, for herself.
Adelaide Advertiser

It combines her professional virtues with something viscerally personal and holds the two aspects in tension throughout. The result is taut and episodic.
Weekend Australian

The real achievement of the book is Wild’s lyrical flair, a rare trait in a news journalist. Wild describes her mental illness as an agony that ‘would fall like a piano from the sky, unannounced and crushing’.
Australian Book Review

At its simplest, Waiting for Elijah is an exploration of the devastating effects of a police force ill-equipped to deal with mental illness. Wild’s personal story, though, brings a depth to her investigation, and she doesn’t grab for easy take-home messages. Instead, she probes the issue and arrives at a kind of forgiveness – for the policeman who shot Elijah, but also, perhaps, for herself.
Courier Mail

This book is many things, it’s a tense crime thriller, unravelling the story of a young man’s death and subsequent investigation of the events. It‘s a superb piece of reportage, bringing Kate’s 4 Corners rigour to a profound social ill — the fraught interaction between policing and mental illness. It’s a novel of place evoking the interiors of court rooms, the landscapes of country NSW and the author’s former home in Darwin. And then as if you haven’t got enough for your money and decision to read Waiting for Elijah it springs another surprise, raw and moving elements of the author’s personal story interlaced with the other characters.
Sarah Ferguson’s Launch Speech

On the surface Waiting for Elijah is an investigation into the shooting of a mentally ill young man, but author Kate Wild also raises important questions about the adequacy of police training and the detrimental effects of mental illness on society … Her investigation of the case is comprehensive and she is fair and balanced in her criticism of the NSW Police Force despite Rich’s refusal to give evidence at the inquest on the grounds that it might prove he had committed an offence.
Sydney Morning Herald

Waiting for Elijah blends both Wild’s professional values and personal experiences, and ties them into an overarching analysis of how medical and legal systems can fail some of society’s most vulnerable … Wild’s book doesn’t jump to any conclusions; instead, she invites audiences to look a little deeper.
Sunday Territorian

In this thought-provoking, beautiful and devastating piece of journalism, Kate Wild follows the court case and asks: how can we stop this from happening again?
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