As well as time to spend with family and friends, summer holidays are great for reflecting upon the year past, considering the year to come – and reading.
Grattan has put together a selection of books we think the Prime Minister might find stimulating over the break.
- Why the West Rules – for Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future, Ian Morris (Profile Books Ltd., London, UK; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, US, 2010)
- Fault Lines: How hidden fractures still threaten the world economy, Raghuram Rajan (Princeton University Press, US, 2010)
- Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the end of the reform era, George Megalogenis (Quarterly Essay 40, Black Ink Books, Aus, 2010)
- Disconnected, Andrew Leigh (University of New South Wales Press Ltd., Sydney, Aus, 2010)
- Our Fathers, Andrew O’Hagan (Faber and Faber Ltd., London, UK, 1999)
- Art+Soul, Hetti Perkins (Miegunyah Press, Aus, 2010)
- Merchants of Doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway (Bloomsbury Press, UK, 2010)
- Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate, UK, 2009)