10 must-read nonfiction books like Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography by Blanche d’Alpuget

Cover of Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography by Blanche d’Alpuget

Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography

By: Blanche d’Alpuget

4.25

Format: 1008 pages, ebook

To mark Bob Hawke’s extraordinary life and legacy, this master work brings together the story of th…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography by Blanche d’Alpuget , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Australia's Toughest Prisons: Inmates by James Phelps

1. Australia's Toughest Prisons: Inmates

By: James Phelps

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

These are the stories about Australia's hardest inmates, from Australia's hardest inmates: the true… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. Lazarus Rising

By: John Howard

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

John Howard spent decades under media scrutiny, and while his credentials as a political leader, de… read more

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3. Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)

By: David Hunt

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2014 Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Nonfiction Girt. No word… read more

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4. Jasper Jones

By: Craig Silvey

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is s… read more

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5. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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6. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more

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"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

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7. The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

By: Kati Marton

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The “captivating” ( The New York Times ), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"This also serves as a clever way of neutralizing potential opponents. “Angela is very skilled at appropriating any issue as soon as it gains traction,"

-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

"Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari’s somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music."

-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

"Her description of a perfect day sounds perfectly ordinary: “I will sleep long, have a relaxed breakfast. Then I’ll go out for some fresh air, chat with my husband or with friends. I might go to the …"

-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

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8. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

By: Niki Savva

4.21

Format: 320 pages, ebook

‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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9. Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop

By: Keith Banks

4.22

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

A story from the inside when Queensland had the most corrupt police force in the country. This is w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny

By: Troy Bramston

4.15

Format: 968 pages, Kindle Edition

This unprecedented biography of Hawke includes an exclusive series of interviews with him – the las… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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11. My Adventurous Life

By: Dick Smith

4.28

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

'I have been charmed by good fortune to be born in Australia in the 1940s. I have lived through a t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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12. Wednesdays with Bob

By: Bob Hawke

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

At 87, beloved former PM Bob Hawke reflects on a colourful life. On Wednesdays, Robert J. Hawke … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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13. Keating

By: Kerry O'Brien

4.33

Format: 840 pages, Kindle Edition

Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography by Blanche d’Alpuget

14. Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography

By: Blanche d’Alpuget

4.25

Format: 1008 pages, ebook

To mark Bob Hawke’s extraordinary life and legacy, this master work brings together the story of th… read more

Similar categories in Blanche d’Alpuget's Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography book and Blanche d’Alpuget's Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography

  • nonfiction
  • biography

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4.32

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Ray Porter , Dennis E. Taylor

4.37

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Dennis E. Taylor

4.28

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Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen

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