The Even More Complete Book of Australian Verse

Literature & Fiction

John Clarke

Poetry

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Shadow Land

An award-winning journalist’s incisive, humorous, and heartbreaking account of people in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives    For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance.   In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning Polish journalist Witold Szabłowski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria’s dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not. His on-the-ground reporting—of smuggling a car into Ukraine, hitchhiking through Kosovo as it declares independence, arguing with Stalin-adoring tour guides at the Stalin Museum, sleeping in London’s Victoria Station alongside a homeless woman from Poland, and giving taxi rides to Cubans fearing for the life of Fidel Castro—provides a fascinating portrait of social and economic upheaval and a lesson in the challenges of freedom and the seductions of authoritarian rule.From the Introduction:“Guys with funny hair who promise a great deal have been springing up in our part of the world like mushrooms after rain. And people go running after them, like bears after their keepers. . . . Fear of a changing world, and longing for someone . . . who will promise that life will be the same as it was in the past, are not confined to Regime-Change Land. In half the West, empty promises are made, wrapped in shiny paper like candy. And for this candy, people are happy to get up on their hind legs and dance.”

Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days

Politics & Social Sciences

Witold Szabłowski

Sociology

Petrov Affair, The

History

robert-manne

Australia & Oceania

In My Skin: A Memoir

Holden, Kate

Eagerly awaited by his legion of fans, Shane Maloney's sixth Murray Whelan mystery sees the clown prince of tue believers in vintage form. Trade paperback, 9"x6"

Sucked in

Shane Maloney

Humor & Satire

Susan Butler, editor of "The Macquarie Dictionary", describes the origins and usage of words ranging from "mulga" to "Anzac", from "sool" to "kangaroo".

Dinkum Dictionary

Reference

Butler, Susan

Words, Language & Grammar

Rules of the Game : The Stylelife Challenge and th

Self-Help

STRAUSS, NEIL

Relationships

The Pocket Book of Boosh

Barratt Julian & Fielding Noel

The Emerald Casket: The Billionaire's Curse Trilogy Book II

Richard Newsome

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