A Couple of Things Before the End by Sean O'Beirne urban-development This is a characteristically barbed

This is a characteristically barbed and perceptive look at the challenges facing the government and the country

under both Barack Obama and Donald Trump – a series of setbacks which Trump’s bluster on North Korea cannot disguise

arguing that successful leaders know what they want to do

And whatever happened to class in Australia

My Life on the Road is an inspiring work

A Couple of Things Before the End by Sean O'Beirne urban-development This is a characteristically barbedThis brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of an old and a new Australia. A woman on a passenger ship in 1958 gets involved with a young, wild Barry Humphries. A man looks back to the 1970s and his time as a member of Australias least competent scout troop. In 1988, a teenage boy recalls his sexual initiation, out on the