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After America (Volume 2) by John Birmingham
$23.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Without Warning
Four years after an inexplicable wave of energy decimated the American mainland, and then just as inexplicably disappeared a year later, US President James Kipper is no closer to explaining the catastrophe to the traumatised survivors. In a decaying New York City, an assassination attempt on the Preside ...Show more
Angels of Vengeance by John Birmingham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime
Jed Culver, President Kipper's right hand man, knows that what is right and what is best are rarely the same thing. Can he go against the President's wishes? Mad Jackson Blackstone, rogue governor of the Republic of Texas, is slowly but surely destroying the new United States of America. The time has co ...Show more
Cruel Stars (#1 Cruel Stars Trilogy) by John Birmingham
$33.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Cruel Stars Trilogy Ser.
Everybody thought the Sturm were dead, engulfed by the Dark. They were wrong. Centuries after their defeat, the enemy has returned with an overwhelming attack on the fringes of human space. On the brink of annihilation, humankind's only hope is a few brave souls who survived the initial onslaught: Comma ...Show more
How to be a Writer: Who Smashes Deadlines, Crushes Editors, and Lives in a Solid Gold Hovercraft by John Birmingham
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'Beauty is good, but coin is better. You can't eat artistic integrity. It tastes like sawdust.' This gonzo guide is a lesson in the practicalities of writing: how to be productive, professional and maybe one day even pay the rent. Topics covered include 'How to slay writer's block', 'What the hell is wo ...Show more
Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney by John Birmingham
$23.00 AUD
Category: History
'To peer deeply into this ghost city, the one lying beneath the surface, is to understand that Sydney has a soul and that it is a very dark place indeed.'Beneath the shining harbour, amid the towers of global greed and deep inside the bad-drugs madness of the suburban wastelands, lies Sydney's shadow hi ...Show more
On Father by John Birmingham
$17.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: On Series
John Birmingham's father died. And his life fell apart. The next six months were spent grinding through the dark forests of depression until he finally emerged out of the darkness onto sunlit upland. A unique yet universal story, On Father reaches out to everyone who has experienced and survived deep gr ...Show more
Resistance (Dave Hooper #2) by John Birmingham
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Dave Hooper
Two bright geometric shapes, metallic flashes picked out in the morning sun, moving impossibly fast and straight amidst the visual clutter and chaos of forest and rock...'Is it dragons, Dave, is that what it is? Because I'm not ready for dragons...' A dragon brings down the Vice President's plane, a mon ...Show more
Stranger Thingies by John Birmingham
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer. The pieces contained within t ...Show more
The Brave Ones: East Timor, 1999: Short Black 5 by John Birmingham
$6.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Short Blacks
'As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage ...Show more
The Cruel Stars by John Birmingham
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: The\Cruel Stars Trilogy Ser.
They thought the Sturm were dead. They were wrong. Centuries after their defeat, the enemy has returned with an overwhelming attack on the fringes of human space. On the brink of annihilation, humankind's only hope is a few brave souls who survived the initial onslaught: Commander Lucinda Hardy, thrust ...Show more
The Shattered Skies by John Birmingham
$33.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Cruel Stars Trilogy Ser.
With their advanced tech rendered null by the Sturm's attack, humanity face certain annihilation. Their only hope lies with a few brave souls who survived the initial onslaught – these five heroes might be humanity's only hope. Space opera on an epic scale – as it should be. Part two of a violently ener ...Show more
The Shattered Skies by John Birmingham
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Cruel Stars Trilogy Ser.
Centuries after they were defeated and exiled to dark space, The Sturm have returned. The Sturm, an empire of species purists, have returned from the farthest reaches of Dark Space to wage a war against what they call mutants and borgs- any human being with genetic or neural engineering. In a sneak atta ...Show more