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  • Motherhood

    How should we care for our children?

    by Anne Manne ...
    Recent generations of women thought they could have it all: children and a full family life combined with a successful career. But who had time to wonder at what price and who pays?Working mothers, stay-at-home mothers, paid childcare, women without children: these are controversial topics that inspire passionate and divisive argument and constant media attention. Anne Manne is one of the most ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crimes of the Cross

    The Anglican Paedophile Network of Newcastle, Its Protectors and the Man Who Fought for Justice

    by Anne Manne ...
    A searing expose of institutional child abuse, and the remarkable story of the survivors who would not be silenced'A unique story of pain and triumph told superbly by Anne Manne, who follows victims of abuse as they shatter an old alliance between leading citizens of Newcastle and its Anglican cathedral on the hill which for decades protected brazen paedophile priests. In all the writing of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • So This Is Life

    Scenes from a Country Childhood

    by Anne Manne ...
    So This Is Life is a wonderfully evocative account of youth that will surely take its place among the classics of Australian childhood.At age seven, after her parents' marriage broke down, Anne Manne travelled with her mother and sisters from Adelaide to the Central Victorian countryside to begin a new life. So This Is Life is not a conventional memoir but a haunting and luminous account told ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Surviving Your Split

    A Guide to Separation, Divorce and Family Law in Australia

    Welcome to the club that you never wanted to join. You aren't alone: 94,000 Australians get divorced every year, and this doesn't include de facto relationships, which are just about identical in the eyes of the Family Court. Of all major life events that mess you around, divorce comes in at number two, just behind the death of a spouse. It's a scary, confusing time. But you will get through this. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 29 Love and Money

    The Family and the Free Market

    by Anne Manne ...
    Series Book 29 - Quarterly Essay
    In Love and Money, Anne Manne looks at the religion of work – its high priests and sacrificial lambs. As family life and motherhood feel the pressure of the market, she asks whether the chief beneficiaries are self-interested employers and child-care corporations.This is an essay that ranges widely and entertainingly across contemporary culture: it casts an inquisitive eye over the modern marriage ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Crimes of the Cross

    The Anglican Paedophile Network of Newcastle, Its Protectors and the Man Who Fought for Justice

    by Anne Manne ...
    Narrated by Fiona Macleod ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 29 min

    For many years, Newcastle was the centre of an extensive paedophile network run by members of the Anglican church – and protected by parishioners and community members who looked the other way. In this gripping audiobook, Anne Manne reveals how this network was able to avoid detection for so long, and how its ringleaders were finally exposed and brought to justice. At the centre of the story is a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Love & Money

    The Family and the Free Market

    by Anne Manne ...
    Narrated by Marie-Louise Walker ...
    Series Audiobook 29 - Quarterly Essay

    Unabridged

    3 hours 34 min

    In Love & Money, Anne Manne looks at the religion of work - its high priests and sacrificial lambs. As family life and motherhood feel the pressure of the market, she asks whether the chief beneficiaries are self-interested employers and child-care corporations. This is an essay that ranges widely and entertainingly across contemporary culture: it casts an inquisitive eye over the modern marriage ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Childhood has become central to socio-political debates and policy initiatives both nationally and globally. Despite the privileges afforded to children in the West, Western childhoods are no longer seen as the 'ideal' to which all should aspire. Recent reports and policy concerns suggest that growing up in the West may be marked by the commercialisation of childhood, leading to unhappiness, poor ... Read more

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  • Downfall

    Andrew, Epstein and the End of Privilege - 'Excruciating'

    'Excruciating.' Sunday Times On 19 February 2026, the British monarchy was rocked to its core by the arrest of Andrew - Charles III's brother who once was 2nd in line to the throne - on his 66th birthday. He was released without charges, but all of a sudden Andrew (no longer a prince but plain Mountbatten-Windsor) had put the monarchy and its extensive privileges on trial. Downfall unravels his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quarterly Essay 51 The Prince

    Faith, Abuse and George Pell

    by David Marr ...
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    The leading Catholic in the nation and spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott, Cardinal George Pell has played a key role in the greatest challenge to face his church for centuries: the scandal of child sex abuse by priests.In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man and his career: how did he rise through the ranks? What does he stand for? How does he wield his authority? How much has he shaped his ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Social Work Theory

    by David Howe ...
    Social workers need to recognize the critical role that theory plays both in the way they make sense of what is going on and in the way they order their work. Such recognition clarifies practice for both the worker and the client. David Howe's classic text provides a framework to help social workers develop an understanding of the theories which inescapably underpin their thoughts and actions. ... Read more

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  • The Altar Boys

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    Boys with everything to live for ... A community betrayed ... The whistle-blower priest who paid the ultimate price**Shortlisted for the 2020 Walkley Book Award****Shortlisted for the 2021 NSW Premier's Community and Regional History Prize**** Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Award**Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Ne... ... Read more

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