Homage to Catalonia
author: George Orwell name: Kim average rating: 4.35 book published: 1938 rating: 0 read at: 2018/12/28 date added: 2018/12/28 shelves:...A Theft: My Con Man | An incredible true story told by one of the greatest writers of our day.
author: Hanif Kureishi name: Kim average rating: 2.75 book published: 2014 rating: 2 read at: 2018/12/01 date added: 2018/12/01 shelves: review: Well written – but kind of pointlessI came to this book from listening to its charming and eloquent author at the...Kingdom of the Wicked Book Two: Order
author: Helen Dale name: Kim average rating: 3.75 book published: rating: 0 read at: 2018/11/20 date added: 2018/11/20 shelves:...Democracy and Its Crisis
author: A.C. Grayling name: Kim average rating: 3.79 book published: rating: 4 read at: 2017/09/01 date added: 2018/11/15 shelves: review: A C Grayling writes well, he is easy to follow, although at times a bit too academically “heavy”. He is logical and...Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy’s Son
author: Mark Colvin name: Kim average rating: 4.18 book published: 2016 rating: 5 read at: 2018/09/06 date added: 2018/10/06 shelves: review: Even if you don’t know the name, you will remember the mellifluous soothing voice of the late Mark Colvin – ABC...Bell of the Desert
author: Alan Gold name: Kim average rating: 4.04 book published: 2012 rating: 5 read at: 2018/10/01 date added: 2018/10/05 shelves: review: If Winston Churchill and the other leaders of Western Europe had listened more closely to Gertrude Bell and T.E Lawrence during...Kingdom of the Wicked Book One: Rules
author: Helen Dale name: Kim average rating: 3.80 book published: 2017 rating: 4 read at: 2018/07/01 date added: 2018/10/05 shelves: review: I respect anyone that acknowledges their mistakes, apologises and moves on – Helen Dale (“nee” Helen...Kim
author: Rudyard Kipling name: Kim average rating: 4.17 book published: 1901 rating: 0 read at: 2018/10/04 date added: 2018/10/04 shelves:...
The Politics of Change
As trust in our political leaders continue to decline, writings and commentary decrying the malaise in which our democracy finds itself in is booming, including Facebook-, Murdoch- and ABC-bashing, lamenting populism, trashing Trump-ism and generally blaming all the other ‘ism’s’ except one’s own.