Rod Marsh: A Life in Cricket by Mark Browning
16 February, 2005

Ruxton: A Biography by Anne Blair
16 February, 2005

Axis of Deceit: The Story of the Intelligence Officer Who Risked all to Tell the Truth about WMD and Iraq by Andrew Wilkie
16 February, 2005

The Boy Adeodatus: Portrait of a Lucky Young Bastard by Bernard Smith
19 July, 2004
Bernard Smith is a living legend. Now aged 88, the author of Place, Taste and Tradition and European Vision and the South Pacific is still writing about Australian art, as the review of his latest book on the previous page shows. As part of its ongoing commitment to re-releasing classic Australian titles UQP has revived Smith’s 1984 autobiography, which tells of his life until 1940.

Alias Chin Peng by Chin Peng
19 July, 2004
Imagine, for a moment, that Osama bin Laden were to remain alive, if not especially active, for some decades in remote sanctuaries on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Then (to continue the hypothetical scenario) he admits defeat, negotiates immunity from prosecution and emerges from seclusion, looking more like a mild-mannered and moderately prosperous businessman than a fanatical terrorist. With the aid of a couple of western journalists, he writes his memoirs, consulting the archives of the governments against which he directed his attacks. In the book he candidly admits to mistakes and errors of judgement, but also responds vigorously to many of the assertions made against him, both by political leaders at the time he was active and by historians during the intervening decades.

Churchill by Roy Jenkins
19 July, 2004
This is the story of Sir Winston Churchill as seen by another politician, albeit one who is now Chancellor of Oxford University and who specialises in political biography. So one should expect a detailed history of Churchill the parliamentarian, and rightly this is so. The book also includes a section on Churchill’s early years, his early army service and his early journalistic work.

B-Model: An Embellished Memoir by Miranda Darling
13 May, 2004
Wakefield Press is pitching this title as a nonfiction memoir, and it certainly reads autobiographically enough to justify it, but it should appeal at least as much, if not more, to a YA audience—particularly teenage girls who identify with the main character’s overriding sense of alienation.