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Siobhan Dowd - 2008

DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she’s been murdered.

As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him—his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what—a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.

The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull, the Incredible Shrinking Man in the Top Hat

Andrew P. Street - 2016

A hilarious and deeply irreverent take on the political life and times of our twenty-ninth prime minister and his stumbling government.The even more elaborately-titled sequel to The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott, this is a tale of a muddling and middling prime minister and his attempts to steer his inertia-heavy government away from electoral disaster.Fairfax columnist Andrew P Street details the litany of gaffes, blunders and questionable calls that have followed from the bold promise of mature politics offered by Malcolm Turnbull on the day he did Tony Abbott out of the top job.Expect tales of submarines, GST rises, the joys of negative gearing, offshore tax havens and offshore detention, and a whimsical cast of Delusional Conservatives and Mal-contents, versus an opposition with a rich history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory - with the ever-present ghost of the ex-PM rattling its chains throughout.This is a book that answers the question, 'Can a government win an election when its apparently not even sure if it wants to govern anymore?' With Malcolm Turnbull cast as Mr Harbourside Mansion by one of his own, who would have thought it could have come to this?Here is a unique take on politics Australian style.

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Book picks similar toA Tragedy of Errors: The Government and Misgovernment of Northern Ireland by Kenneth Bloomfield

Bog Child

The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull, the Incredible Shrinking Man in the Top Hat

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A Tragedy of Errors: The Government and Misgovernment of Northern Ireland by Kenneth Bloomfield