A forensic and hard-hitting exploration of knowledge, power and privilege. Interrogating the adage, 'knowledge is power', and calling institutional prejudice to account, Bri Lee dives into her own privilege and presumptions to bring us the stark and confronting results.

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Bri Lee

Australia is in the grip of a China panic. How did we get here, and what’s the way out? In this brilliant book, David Brophy takes apart Australia’s China debate – its strange alliances and diplomatic failures. Justified criticism of China has too often given way to paranoia and exaggeration.

David Brophy

‘The truth about her’, a novel by journalist Jacqueline Maley is a deeply engaging and moving exploration of guilt, shame, female anger and mothering – with all its trouble and treasure.

Jacqueline Maley

'The Ripping Tree' is a thrilling examination of Australia’s dark colonial history – and it makes for unsettling and riveting reading. “An illustrious family. A beautiful home. A shipwrecked young woman left on its doorstep. Don't think they're going to save her.

Nikki Gemmell

A riveting, provocative new novel about women's fury, traumatic grief, new love, deep friendship, and the preciousness of life, it asks the questions: Should you cling to faith in a flawed system, or take control the only way you can? Can a good person justify taking a life to save a life?

Debra Oswald

A ground-breaking book of our times. Essential reading for anyone concerned about the dire fate of the global economy, the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, the deepening environmental crisis and the alarming deterioration of our social fabric.

Satyajit Das

The case of little William Tyrrell is one of Australia's most baffling and heartbreaking mysteries. He was playing hide-and-seek with his four-year-old sister in the garden of his grandmother's house when he disappeared, seemingly into thin air.

Caroline Overington

Sarah Macdonald and Cathy Wilcox are friends, next-door neighbours and fellow mums of teens who have lived through it all and produced this straight-talking, not entirely sarcastic, informative guide to what for many parents are the most challenging-but interesting and exciting-years in the role.

Sarah Macdonald Cathy Wilcox

In an aquarium at Coogee Beach in 1935, a 4.4 metre tiger shark glided warily past onlookers, freshly caught just one week earlier off the coast of Sydney. To their horror, the shark suddenly vomited up a human arm tattooed with two men boxing, and the ripple effect continues to this day.

Phillip Roope & Kevin Meagher

In Frank & Fearless, Cowdery reflects on some of the most notorious and difficult cases of his distinguished career, including the headline-grabbing criminal trials of Gordon Wood, Keli Lane and Jeffrey Gilham.

Nicholas Cowdery & Rachael Jane Chin

Every month Stanton Library hosts some of the world’s most exciting writers and thinkers to discuss their latest books. Missed out on seeing your favourite author in the flesh? Catch up with our audio recordings and relive the discussion, insights and laughter.

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