John Birmingham

Master of emotion-rich and genre-defying horror fiction.

About John Birmingham(1948 – present)

Blending lyrical prose with thought-provoking themes, John Birmingham crafts horror fiction that explores the human condition through intricate characters and immersive storytelling. Their work often delves into memory, legacy, and transformation, earning them a place among the most resonant voices in contemporary literature.

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Quarterly Essay

QE1D
1. Quarterly Essay 1 In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right(By: Robert Manne) (2001) –Description or Buy on Amazon
AJAC
2. Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy (2001) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE3O
3. Quarterly Essay 3 The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction(By: Guy Rundle) (2001) –Description or Buy on Amazon
RSAA
4. Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America(By: Don Watson) (2001) –Description or Buy on Amazon
BBWF
5. Beyond Belief: What Future for Labor?(By: John Button) (2002) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE5G
6. Quarterly Essay 5 Girt By Sea: Australia, the Refugees and the Politics of Fear(By: Mungo MacCallum) (2002) –Description or Buy on Amazon
PBWP
7. Paradise Betrayed: West Papua's Struggle for Independence(By: John Martinkus) (2002) –Description or Buy on Amazon
GRGA
8. Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens(By: Amanda Lohrey) (2002) –Description or Buy on Amazon
BLPE
9. Beautiful Lies: Population and Environment In Australia(By: Tim Flannery) (2003) –Description or Buy on Amazon
BCCC
10. Bad Company: The Cult of the CEO(By: Gideon Haigh) (2003) –Description or Buy on Amazon
WJUS
11. Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way To Nationhood(By: Germaine Greer) (2003) –Description or Buy on Amazon
MEBI
12. Made in England:Australia's British Inheritance(By: David Malouf) (2003) –Description or Buy on Amazon
STHR
13. Sending Them Home: Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference; Quarterly Essay 13(By: Robert Manne,David Corlett) (2004) –Description or Buy on Amazon
MISU
14. Mission Impossible: The Sheikhs, the U.S. and the Future of Iraq(By: Paul McGeough) (2004) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE1B
15. Quarterly Essay 16 Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics(By: Raimond Gaita) (2004) –Description or Buy on Amazon
BJH
16. (By: John Hirst) (2005) –Description or Buy on Amazon
WWDE
17. The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows(By: Gail Bell) (2005) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE1R
18. Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia(By: Judith Brett) (2005) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE2T
19. Quarterly Essay 20 A Time for War (2005) –Description or Buy on Amazon
WLDS
20. What's Left?: The Death of Social Democracy(By: Clive Hamilton) (2006) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE2V
21. Quarterly Essay 22 Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia(By: Amanda Lohrey) (2006) –Description or Buy on Amazon
HQWO
22. The History Question: Who Owns the Past?; Quarterly Essay 23(By: Inga Clendinnen) (2006) –Description or Buy on Amazon
HMVC
23. His Master's Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard(By: David Marr) (2007) –Description or Buy on Amazon
BNHT
24. Bipolar Nation: How To Win the 2007 Election; Quarterly Essay 25(By: Peter Hartcher) (2007) –Description or Buy on Amazon
RTCC
25. Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option(By: Ian Lowe) (2007) –Description or Buy on Amazon
ERUJ
26. Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard(By: Ian Lowe) (2007) –Description or Buy on Amazon
L&MF
27. Love & Money: The Family and the Free Market(By: Anne Manne) (2008) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE3L
28. Quarterly Essay 30 Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention(By: Paul Toohey) (2008) –Description or Buy on Amazon
ARFW
29. American Revolution: The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama(By: Kate Jennings) (2008) –Description or Buy on Amazon
NONS
30. Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia?(By: Tim Flannery) (2008) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QVCC
31. Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom; Quarterly Essay 33(By: Guy Pearse) (2009) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE3R
32. Quarterly Essay 35 Radical Hope: Education and Equality for Australia(By: Noel Pearson) (2009) –Description or Buy on Amazon
ASKR
33. Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country(By: Mungo MacCallum) (2009) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE3W
34. Quarterly Essay 37 What's Right?: The Future of Conservatism in Australia(By: Waleed Aly) (2010) –Description or Buy on Amazon
PTPJ
35. Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd(By: David Marr) (2010) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE3P
36. Quarterly Essay 39 Power Shift: Australia's Future between Washington and Beijing(By: HughWhite) (2010) –Description or Buy on Amazon
TPLE
37. Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era; Quarterly Essay 40(By: George Megalogenis) (2010) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE4H
38. Quarterly Essay 41 The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World(By: David Malouf) (2011) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE4F
39. Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share: Country and City in Australia(By: Judith Brett) (2011) –Description or Buy on Amazon
BNMR
40. Bad News: Murdoch's(By: Robert Manne) (2011) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE4M
41. Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet(By: Andrew Charlton) (2011) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE4U
42. Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals(By: Anna Krien) (2012) –Description or Buy on Amazon
AFAN
43. After The Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis(By: Tim Flannery) (2012) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE4N
44. Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future(By: Mark Latham) (2013) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE5U
45. Quarterly Essay 50 Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny(By: Anna Goldsworthy) (2013) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE4G
46. Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation(By: Laura Tingle) (2013) –Description or Buy on Amazon
PFAG
47. The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell(By: David Marr) (2013) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE5F
48. Quarterly Essay 52 Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World(By: Linda Jaivin) (2013) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE5T
49. Quarterly Essay 53 That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution(By: Paul Toohey) (2014) –Description or Buy on Amazon
DTLC
50. Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country after the China Boom(By: Andrew Charlton) (2014) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE5R
51. Quarterly Essay 55 A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth(By: Noel Pearson) (2014) –Description or Buy on Amazon
CPCP
52. Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer(By: Guy Rundle) (2014) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE5D
53. Quarterly Essay 57 Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly(By: Karen Hitchcock) (2015) –Description or Buy on Amazon
BYTI
54. Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State(By: David Kilcullen) (2015) –Description or Buy on Amazon
FMBS
55. Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power(By: David Marr) (2015) –Description or Buy on Amazon
PAHW
56. Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern(By: Laura Tingle) (2015) –Description or Buy on Amazon
BAAB
57. Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal(By: George Megalogenis) (2016) –Description or Buy on Amazon
SNLA
58. Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull(By: Annabel Crabb) (2016) –Description or Buy on Amazon
FLAP
59. Firing Line: Australia's Path to War(By: James Brown) (2016) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE6E
60. Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within: American Politics in the Time of Trump(By: Don Watson) (2016) –Description or Buy on Amazon
ADBH
61. The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming(By: Stan Grant) (2016) –Description or Buy on Amazon
WQON
62. The White Queen: One Nation and the Politics of Race(By: David Marr) (2017) –Description or Buy on Amazon
LGCC
63. The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock(By: Anna Krien) (2017) –Description or Buy on Amazon
MP1E
64. Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal(By: Benjamin Law) (2017) –Description or Buy on Amazon
WAAN
65. Without America: Australia in the New Asia(By: HughWhite) (2017) –Description or Buy on Amazon
MTHA
66. Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future(By: Mark McKenna) (2018) –Description or Buy on Amazon
DRHN
67. Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next(By: Richard Denniss) (2018) –Description or Buy on Amazon
FLDR
68. Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman(By: Laura Tingle) (2018) –Description or Buy on Amazon
NLIL
69. Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age(By: Sebastian Smee) (2018) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE7A
70. Quarterly Essay 73 Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation(By: Rebecca Huntley) (2019) –Description or Buy on Amazon
PGHS
71. The Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison won and Bill Shorten lost(By: Erik Jensen) (2019) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE7M
72. Quarterly Essay 75 Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap(By: Annabel Crabb) (2019) –Description or Buy on Amazon
RFWU
73. Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge(By: Peter Hartcher) (2019) –Description or Buy on Amazon
CMRT
74. Cry Me a River: The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin; Quarterly Essay 77(By: Margaret Simons) (2020) –Description or Buy on Amazon
CCRC
75. The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future(By: Judith Brett) (2020) –Description or Buy on Amazon
ECSM
76. The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics(By: Katharine Murphy) (2020) –Description or Buy on Amazon
HRWA
77. The High Road: What Australia can learn from New Zealand(By: Laura Tingle) (2020) –Description or Buy on Amazon
GTZA
78. Getting to Zero: Australia's Energy Transition(By: Colin James,Frank Bongiorno,Shireen Morris,John Quiggin,AndrewLeigh,Laura Tingle,Alan Finkel,AlanAtkinson,Bain Attwood,Tim Hazledine,MirandaJohnson,Ben McKay,Hugh Riminton,DonRussell) (2021) –Description or Buy on Amazon
ESPA
79. Exit Strategy: Politics After the Pandemic(By: George Megalogenis) (2021) –Description or Buy on Amazon
TBLM
80. Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power(By: Lech Blaine) (2021) –Description or Buy on Amazon
RH#I
81. The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia(By: Jess Hill) (2021) –Description or Buy on Amazon
NWDM
82. Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia(By: Sarah Krasnostein) (2022) –Description or Buy on Amazon
STWA
83. Sleepwalk to War: Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America(By: HughWhite) (2022) –Description or Buy on Amazon
UWHC
84. Uncivil Wars: How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy(By: Waleed Aly,ScottStephens) (2022) –Description or Buy on Amazon
LWAN
85. Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics(By: Katharine Murphy) (2022) –Description or Buy on Amazon
QE8W
86. Quarterly Essay 89 The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal(By: Saul Griffith) (2023) –Description or Buy on Amazon
VRRR
87. Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal(By: MeganDavis) (2023) –Description or Buy on Amazon
LDHN
88. Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS(By: Micheline Lee) (2023) –Description or Buy on Amazon
GDAH
89. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It(By: Alan Kohler) (2023) –Description or Buy on Amazon
BCPD
90. Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics(By: Stephen Smith) (2024) –Description or Buy on Amazon
HTHC
91. Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future(By: Joëlle Gergis) (2024) –Description or Buy on Amazon
HNTH
92. High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink; Quarterly Essay 95(By: Don Watson) (2024) –Description or Buy on Amazon
MRNS
93. Minority Report: The New Shape of Australian Politics(By: George Megalogenis) (2024) –Description or Buy on Amazon
LICW
94. Losing It: Can we stop violence against women and children?; Quarterly Essay 97(By: Jess Hill) (2025) –Description or Buy on Amazon

John Birmingham Books and Series – Structured Keywords

Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham. Complete reading order and series order.

After The Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis(By: Tim Flannery) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

American Revolution: The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama(By: Kate Jennings) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country(By: Mungo MacCallum) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Bad Company: The Cult of the CEO(By: Gideon Haigh) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics(By: Stephen Smith) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Bad News: Murdoch's(By: Robert Manne) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal(By: George Megalogenis) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Beautiful Lies: Population and Environment In Australia(By: Tim Flannery) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Beyond Belief: What Future for Labor?(By: John Button) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Bipolar Nation: How To Win the 2007 Election; Quarterly Essay 25(By: Peter Hartcher) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State(By: David Kilcullen) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

(By: John Hirst) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer(By: Guy Rundle) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Cry Me a River: The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin; Quarterly Essay 77(By: Margaret Simons) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next(By: Richard Denniss) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country after the China Boom(By: Andrew Charlton) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard(By: Ian Lowe) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Exit Strategy: Politics After the Pandemic(By: George Megalogenis) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power(By: David Marr) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Firing Line: Australia's Path to War(By: James Brown) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman(By: Laura Tingle) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Getting to Zero: Australia's Energy Transition(By: Colin James,Frank Bongiorno,Shireen Morris,John Quiggin,AndrewLeigh,Laura Tingle,Alan Finkel,AlanAtkinson,Bain Attwood,Tim Hazledine,MirandaJohnson,Ben McKay,Hugh Riminton,DonRussell) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens(By: Amanda Lohrey) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink; Quarterly Essay 95(By: Don Watson) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future(By: Joëlle Gergis) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

His Master's Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard(By: David Marr) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS(By: Micheline Lee) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics(By: Katharine Murphy) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Losing It: Can we stop violence against women and children?; Quarterly Essay 97(By: Jess Hill) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Love & Money: The Family and the Free Market(By: Anne Manne) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Made in England:Australia's British Inheritance(By: David Malouf) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Minority Report: The New Shape of Australian Politics(By: George Megalogenis) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Mission Impossible: The Sheikhs, the U.S. and the Future of Iraq(By: Paul McGeough) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future(By: Mark McKenna) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal(By: Benjamin Law) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age(By: Sebastian Smee) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia(By: Sarah Krasnostein) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia?(By: Tim Flannery) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Paradise Betrayed: West Papua's Struggle for Independence(By: John Martinkus) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern(By: Laura Tingle) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd(By: David Marr) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom; Quarterly Essay 33(By: Guy Pearse) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 16 Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics(By: Raimond Gaita) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia(By: Judith Brett) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 1 In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right(By: Robert Manne) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 20 A Time for War – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 22 Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia(By: Amanda Lohrey) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 30 Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention(By: Paul Toohey) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 35 Radical Hope: Education and Equality for Australia(By: Noel Pearson) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 37 What's Right?: The Future of Conservatism in Australia(By: Waleed Aly) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 39 Power Shift: Australia's Future between Washington and Beijing(By: HughWhite) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 3 The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction(By: Guy Rundle) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 41 The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World(By: David Malouf) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share: Country and City in Australia(By: Judith Brett) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet(By: Andrew Charlton) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals(By: Anna Krien) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation(By: Laura Tingle) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future(By: Mark Latham) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 50 Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny(By: Anna Goldsworthy) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 52 Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World(By: Linda Jaivin) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 53 That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution(By: Paul Toohey) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 55 A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth(By: Noel Pearson) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 57 Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly(By: Karen Hitchcock) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 5 Girt By Sea: Australia, the Refugees and the Politics of Fear(By: Mungo MacCallum) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within: American Politics in the Time of Trump(By: Don Watson) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 73 Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation(By: Rebecca Huntley) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 75 Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap(By: Annabel Crabb) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Quarterly Essay 89 The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal(By: Saul Griffith) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America(By: Don Watson) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option(By: Ian Lowe) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge(By: Peter Hartcher) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Sending Them Home: Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference; Quarterly Essay 13(By: Robert Manne,David Corlett) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Sleepwalk to War: Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America(By: HughWhite) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull(By: Annabel Crabb) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming(By: Stan Grant) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future(By: Judith Brett) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics(By: Katharine Murphy) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It(By: Alan Kohler) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

The High Road: What Australia can learn from New Zealand(By: Laura Tingle) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

The History Question: Who Owns the Past?; Quarterly Essay 23(By: Inga Clendinnen) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock(By: Anna Krien) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell(By: David Marr) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

The Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison won and Bill Shorten lost(By: Erik Jensen) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia(By: Jess Hill) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

The White Queen: One Nation and the Politics of Race(By: David Marr) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows(By: Gail Bell) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power(By: Lech Blaine) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era; Quarterly Essay 40(By: George Megalogenis) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Uncivil Wars: How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy(By: Waleed Aly,ScottStephens) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal(By: MeganDavis) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

What's Left?: The Death of Social Democracy(By: Clive Hamilton) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way To Nationhood(By: Germaine Greer) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.

Without America: Australia in the New Asia(By: HughWhite) – Book in the Quarterly Essay series by John Birmingham.