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All That I Am by Anna Funder
Category: Fiction
Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. 'A ripper.' The Australian 'Gripping.' Sydney Morning Herald 'Brilliant ...Show more
All That I Am: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2012 by Anna Funder
Category: Fiction
'When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like a football match. It was Monday afternoon ...' Ruth Becker, defiant and cantankerous, is living out her days in the eastern suburbs of ...Show more
All That I Am: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2012 by FUNDER ANNA
Category: Fiction
All That I Am: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2012 by Anna Funder
Category: Audio Books
When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they must flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless, her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller, her younger cousin Ruth ...Show more
Courage, Survival, Greed: Sydney PEN Voices: The 3 Writers Project by Anna Funder, Melissa Lucashenko, Christopher Kremmer, Sydney PEN
Category: Languages and Reference
Three brilliant essays written by leading and acclaimed Australian writers unflinchingly show us our world as never before. Anna Funder examines the nature of courage in a powerful and moving essay, commemorating the life and work of the 'bravest of the brave', murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovs ...Show more
Stasiland by Anna Funder
Category: History
Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson PrizeTruth can be stranger - and more heartbreaking and hilarious - than fiction.In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of ...Show more
Stasiland by Anna Funder
Category: History | Series: ORDER 9780143792529 INSTEAD
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards, the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police could become a museum literally overnight, and o ...Show more
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
Category: Audio Books
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited. Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany...In a country where the headquarters of the secret police could become a museum literally overnight, and one in 50 East Germans were informi ...Show more
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
Category: Audio Books
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited. Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany...In a country where the headquarters of the secret police could become a museum literally overnight, and one in 50 East Germans were informi ...Show more