Böcker av Jeff Sparrow

An anthology of winning entries in the 2020 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing, with categories for short story and creative non-fiction across open, local and youth entrants. Also features judges reports and information about the inaugural Mayor''s Prize.

Left Turn shows why the Left should be taken seriously. It is neither a policy document for a political party or a comprehensive list of ways to improve Australia. The essays are passionate, relevant, radical, controversial and topical; voices that are dying to be heard in an increasingly barren, media landscape.

In the aftermath of the Christchurch mosques massacre, Jeff Sparrow explores the dark potential of fascism today whereby isolated individuals can operate destructively and influence one another, in some cases weaponising the despair brought about by climate change.

The position of political correctness in the struggle of progressive politics against right wing populism is evaluated by "Guardian" journalist and Paul Robeson biographer Sparrow.

Ninety years after the First World War, police in a Victorian country town uncovered, inside a velvet-lined display cabinet, the mummified head of a Turkish soldier. The macabre discovery launched the author on a quest to understand the nature of deadly violence. This book takes us up close to the ways society kills.