A Private Life

5 best books like A Private Life (Michael Kirby): The Nowhere Child, Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back, An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk, Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals, Xi Jinping: The Backlash

The Nowhere Child

Author	Christian White
ISBN	1925584526

Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White’s internationally bestselling debut thriller of psychological suspense about a woman uncovering devastating secrets about her family—and her very identity…

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Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back

Author	Bri Lee
ISBN	1760295779

'Scorching, self-scouring: a young woman finds her steel and learns to wield it' - Helen Garner

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness...

An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk

Author	Allison Schrager
ISBN	0525533966

A Financial Times Book of the Month pick for April!

Is it worth swimming in shark-infested waters to surf a 50-foot, career-record wave?

Is it riskier to make an action movie or a horror movie?

Should sex workers forfeit 50 percent of their income for added security or take...

Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals

Author

Tyler Cowen

Growth is good. Through history, economic growth, in particular, has alleviated human misery, improved human happiness and opportunity, and lengthened human lives. Wealthier societies are more stable, offer better living standards, produce better medicines, and ensure greater autonomy, greater...

Xi Jinping: The Backlash

Author	Richard McGregor
ISBN	1760893048

Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem...