Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan

Mike Carlton

In 1924, the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia Iwas sunk off Sydney Heads. Once she had been the pride of the navy and the nation. She had saved Australia from an attack by a German squadron in the Pacific in World War I.But after the war she was obsolete, and a victim in the race to disarm after ...

Expectation

Anna Hope

'Profoundly intelligent and humane. Deserves to feature on many a prize shortlist' GUARDIAN'A brilliant exploration offriendship, feminism and thwarted ambition' PANDORA SYKES'If you wished Normal People had tackled female friendship, try Expectation' GRAZIAWhat happened to the women we were supposed to...

The Cossacks

Leo Tolstoy

The Cossacks is one of the finest depictions of Cossack society in Russian literature. Against that primitive background, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is that of a young man who wants to love and wants to fit into society. The other is that of the difficulty of a primitive soci...