Julian Burnside

Over six years of imprisonment in Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book – No Friend but the Mountains . In the articles, essays, and poe...

This gripping and comprehensive book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists takes readers inside the Trump White House for a fully characterised account of the chaos, scandal and destruction of his presidency's first term. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews and more than 200 sources, including senior administration members and first-hand witnesses who have never spoken before, the authors reveal unvarnished decision-making, unscripted calls with foreign leaders, and the lengths officials went to protect themselves and the president. The book also exposes the impact of Robert Mueller's investigation into the administration's loyalty to the president rather than the country.

A Kurdish-Iranian journalist, illegally detained on Manus Island, shares his first-hand account of five years of incarceration and exile. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi, this book is a voice of witness, an act of survival, a cry of resistance, and a vivid portrait of the experience of stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants worldwide. Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, it is an extraordinary account that is disturbingly representative of the current global crisis.