Books to read if you want to go down the rabbithole

Updated April 17, 2026
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The Playbook : How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World
Jacquet, Jennifer
Paper Book
Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it. The Playbook is an expose of the extraordinary lengths that corporations will go to in order to deny the scientific facts - whether on climate change, public health risks, worker safety, or anything...
Slick
Kurmelovs, Royce
Paper Book
Slick- Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil takes a comprehensive look at the origins of the Australian petroleum industry, investigating what these companies knew about climate change and how they learned to wield influence and insert themselves into all facets of public life. Royce...
Fact or Fission?: ; the truth about Australia's nuclear ambitions
Broinowski, Richard.
Paper Book
An updated and authoritative account of Australia's involvement with nuclear power, including the AUKUS nuclear submarine pact. Based on previously classified files and interviews with some of Australia's prominent politicians and diplomats, the first edition of Fact or Fission?revealed...
Don't Make a Fuss: It's Only the Claremont Serial Killer
Davis, Wendy.
Paper Book
In 2020, after the longest and most expensive trial in Western Australian history, Bradley Robert Edwards was convicted of two of the Claremont Serial Killings, a series of unsolved murders that had haunted the state since the mid-1990s. But before he went to trial, before he started killing,...
Luigi : the making and the meaning
Richardson, John H.
Paper Book
WHO IS LUIGI MANGIONE, WHERE DID HE COME FROM AND WHY DID THE CRIME HE IS ACCUSED OF MAKE HIM A HERO TO SO MANY? When Luigi Mangione was arrested for allegedly killing Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the prizewinning journalist John H. Richardson thought he...
Someone somewhere knows something
Caroutas, Meni
Paper Book
Eighteen missing people, multiple families grieving, and one person looking for answers in this forensic and moving re-examination of some of Australia's most heartbreaking missing persons cases Every 14 minutes in Australia, someone vanishes. Of the 38,000 missing persons reported...
Who gets believed? : when the truth isn't enough
Nayeri, Dina
Paper Book
The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why? 'An ambitious and moving exploration of the borders we draw around credible victimhood that will cement Nayeri's position as a master storyteller of the...
What really happened in Wuhan
Markson, Sharri
Paper Book
Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia. The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a year and a half, that...
The dissident : Alexey Navalny : profile of a political prisoner
Herszenhorn, David
Paper Book
A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin's nemesis Alexey Navalny-- lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of...
Catch and kill : lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators
Farrow, Ronan
Paper Book
Now an HBO documentary series streaming on HBO Max.  In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests...

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