Martin Blake: 10 books

The rare feat of winning back-to-back flags in 2013 and 2014 cemented coach Alastair Clarkson's men as a truly great team and Hawthorn FC as a great club. At the end of the 2004 season Hawthorn was an unholy mess, with no coach, no chief executive and no captain. Enter Clarkson, who established a...

Corruption, decadence, racial hatred and the clash of faiths. Welcome to southern France in the 14th century. Nicholas, a young monk from Croyland Abbey in the wild and remote Lincolnshire fens, takes a turbulent ride through the medieval Languedoc. Already struggling to adapt to the more licentious...

From Alpha to Omega, from birth pangs to the end of the universe. You may not find the meaning of life within these pages, but you will find poems to help you feel the search just may be worthwhile. Journey from the Garden of Eden to the bleak cold of a dying world, via comedy, tragedy, love, betrayal...

The author spent 3 years of his life behind bars. To keep himself from going crazy he wrote. Whether it was poetry or short stories loosely based on his life, they went down in a notebook. This is that notebook. He has poems of longing, lost love, and a couple of salvia trips. The stories are inspired...

The couples who have loved the hardest, longest and most publicly over the last 50 years are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the tempestuous Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold to the eternally devoted John Lennon and Yoko Ono to the...

Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...

A great mural, commissioned by the King of the Badgers after the defeat of the Badfort crowd at Crack House, is to be painted on the wall at Homeward by Waldovenison Smeare. To protect the mural while it is being painted Uncle employs a watchman called Sleepy Sam, who sleeps in a wheelbarrow and is...

It begins with the arrival not of a detective, but of disaster: Badfort is for sale, but when Uncle decides to buy it, demolish it, and build a pleasantly appointed park on the site, he is forestalled. Beaver Hateman has sold it cheaply to someone on the condition that he, Hateman, is allowed to stay...

July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada's Confederation - the date that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation encompassing ten provinces, three territories, and hundreds of First Nations, its leaders repeatedly debated...

This analysis of macroeconomic policy, originally published in 1989, argues that key government objectives, such as reduced inflation, decreased unemployment and an adequate level of national saving can be achieved only by employing both monetary and fiscal policies, in conjunction with supply-side...