Hill of Content Summer Catalogue 2016/17 | Page 10

Biography

Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
Gareth Stedman Jones

The Hate Race
Maxine Beneba Clarke

The Boy Behind the Curtain
Tim Winton

HB $79.99
Gareth Stedman Jones's impressive
biography explores how Karl Marx
came to his revolutionary ideas in an
age of intellectual ferment, and the
impact they had on his times. In a
world where so many things were
changing so fast, who would the
coming age belong to? This
remarkable book allows the reader to
understand as never before the world
of ideas that shaped Marx's world—
and in turn made Marx shape our
own.

PB $32.99
Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat.
Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family
of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite
on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is
just like all the other Aussie kids on
her street. Except for this one, glaring,
inescapably obvious thing. From one
of Australia's most exciting writers
comes The Hate Race: a powerful,
funny, and at times devastating
memoir about growing up black in
white middle-class Australia.

HB $45.00
A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal
revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim
Winton has always been in the
business of trouble. In The Boy Behind
the Curtain Winton reflects on the
accidents, traumatic and serendipitous,
that have influenced his view of life
and fuelled his distinctive artistic
vision. By turns impassioned, funny,
joyous and astonishing, this is Winton’s
most personal book to date, an insight
into the man who’s held us enthralled
for three decades.

Hero of the Empire
Candice Millard

Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris
Derek Johns

A World Gone Mad
Astrid Lindgren

HB $49.99
Winston Churchill arrived in South
Africa in 1899 to cover the colonial
war between the British and Boer
rebels. Shortly after his arrival,
Churchill was taken prisoner. The story
of his escape is incredible enough, but
then Churchill enlisted, returned to
South Africa and freed the men with
whom he had been imprisoned.
Millard spins an epic story of this
pivotal moment, including Churchill's
encounters with people with whom
he would share the world stage.

HB $39.99
Jan Morris is one of the great British
writers of the post-war era. Soldier,
journalist, writer about places, elegist
of the British Empire and novelist, she
has fashioned a distinctive prose style
that is elegant, fastidious, and
sometimes gloriously gaudy. Ariel is
not a conventional biography, but
rather an appreciation of the work
and life of someone who is known as
both a delightful writer and a
generous, affectionate, witty and
irreverent friend.

HB $39.99
Astrid Lindgren championed the
qualities of courage, hope, love and
resistance; and these qualities are in
evidence in the diaries she kept during
the Second World War. Published for
the first time in English, her diary
provides insight into a Europe
poisoned by fascism, racism and
violence, from the point of view of not
only an employee of the Swedish Mail
Censorship Office, but also of a wife,
mother and budding writer living in a
formally neutral country.