John Birmingham Books In Order
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A Girl in Time | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Golden Minute | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Axis Of Time Books
Weapons of Choice | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Designated Targets | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Final Impact | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Axis of Time: Reloaded Books
World War 3.1 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Axis Of Time: Stalin's Hammer Books
Rome | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Cairo | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Paris | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Dave vs. The Monsters Books
Emergence | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Resistance | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ascendance | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Soul Full of Guns | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Protocol for Monsters | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Demons of Butte Crack County | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chronological Order of Dave vs. The Monsters Books
Emergence | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Protocol for Monsters | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Resistance | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Soul Full of Guns | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ascendance | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Demons of Butte Crack County | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of End of Days Books
Zero Day Code | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fail State | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
American Kill Switch | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Without Warning Books
Without Warning | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
After America | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Angels Of Vengeance | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Cruel Stars Books
The Cruel Stars | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Shattered Skies | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Forever Dead | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Javan War | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
"The Javan War" is a prequel. |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sleeper Agent: An Audible Original | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Here Be Monsters | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Captain of the Gate | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fortune and Glory | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Our Time Is Now: Notes from the High School Underground | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
How to be a Man | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Off One's Tits: Ill-Considered Rants And Raves from a Graceless Oaf Named John Birmingham | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dopeland; Taking The High Road Through Australia's Marijuana Culture | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
How to Be a Writer | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Stranger Thingies: From Felafel to Now | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Seven Stages of Drinking Martinis. | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
On Father | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Blacks Books
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Prosper: A Voyage at Sea | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The One Day | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Brave Ones | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Cypherpunk Revolutionary: On Julian Assange | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Quarterly Essay Books
Quarterly Essay 1 In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 3 The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Beyond Belief: What Future for Labor? | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 5 Girt By Sea: Australia, the Refugees and the Politics of Fear | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Paradise Betrayed: West Papua's Struggle for Independence | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Beautiful Lies: Population and Environment In Australia | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bad Company: The Cult of the CEO | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way To Nationhood | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Made in England:Australia's British Inheritance | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Sending Them Home: Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference; Quarterly Essay 13 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Mission Impossible: The Sheikhs, the U.S. and the Future of Iraq | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 16 Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 20 A Time for War | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
What's Left?: The Death of Social Democracy | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 22 Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The History Question: Who Owns the Past?; Quarterly Essay 23 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
His Master's Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bipolar Nation: How To Win the 2007 Election; Quarterly Essay 25 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Love & Money: The Family and the Free Market | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 30 Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
American Revolution: The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia? | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom; Quarterly Essay 33 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 35 Radical Hope: Education and Equality for Australia | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 37 What's Right?: The Future of Conservatism in Australia | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 39 Power Shift: Australia's Future between Washington and Beijing | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era; Quarterly Essay 40 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 41 The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share: Country and City in Australia | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bad News: Murdoch's | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
After The Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 50 Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 52 Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 53 That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country after the China Boom | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 55 A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 57 Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Firing Line: Australia's Path to War | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within: American Politics in the Time of Trump | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The White Queen: One Nation and the Politics of Race | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Without America: Australia in the New Asia | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 73 Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison won and Bill Shorten lost | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 75 Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Cry Me a River: The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin; Quarterly Essay 77 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The High Road: What Australia can learn from New Zealand | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Getting to Zero: Australia's Energy Transition | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Exit Strategy: Politics After the Pandemic | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Sleepwalk to War: Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Uncivil Wars: How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Quarterly Essay 89 The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink; Quarterly Essay 95 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Minority Report: The New Shape of Australian Politics | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Losing It: Can we stop violence against women and children?; Quarterly Essay 97 | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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In the beginning, he simply had a random thought pop into his mind, he wanted to be a writer. When the idea came to him, he quickly realized that the idea was an absolutely ridiculous one and most certainly a mixed-up one. Then he envisioned his atmosphere, a serene one, spending most of his waking hours cradled in a hammock. Then he had a choice meal enter his vision, springing to mind, he had quickly thought of the prospect of being hand-fed by ambiguous Japanese handmaids. That ladies and gentlemen, is John Birmingham.
On August 7th 1964, author John Birmingham was born in the the Liverpool area, in the United Kingdom. Around the time of 1970, He and his parents migrated to the great land down under, settling in the town of Ipswich, Queensland. He began his higher education in search of a Law Degree and during that time frame he had been arrested during an anti-street march legislation, which turned out to be one of his less pleasing moments in life.
School Newspaper to Published Author
A little later on, he had discovered that law really wasn’t his forte, so he found himself headed in the proper direction of his literary destiny. In Brisbane, he began studying for his art degree at the University of Queensland, while at the same time he began writing for the school newspaper. It was at the University where he had received his Arts degree. It was there when John Birmingham first tasted that sweet flavor they like to call success with his very first published work as a bona fide professional writer titled, “Semper Floreat.”
During his days at the newspaper, John had his first entrance into the world of fiction when he initiated it with a series of short stories whose antagonist was a man that wet by the name Commander Harrison Biscuit, garnering the Young Writer Award for the Independent. The stories had been edited at the master hands of future Rolling Stone editor, Brian Toohey. He studied at the University of Queensland receiving his Art degree. It was there when John Birmingham first tasted that sweet flavor they like to call success with his very first published work as a bona fide professional writer titled, “Semper Floreat.”
A Small Dip into the Real World
A so-called real job and a full time gig was calling his name directly after graduation when he moved to Canberra, taking a job as a Researcher at the Department of Defense.The work didn’t quite settle his soul as he had hoped it would, so he found himself back in the Queensland area when that pivotal and spontaneous moment came when he decided to be a writer. A little while later he took up shelter in a shared housing situation.
1994 was the year that John Birmingham saw the release of his most widely acclaimed memoir, “He Died With A Felafel In His Hand.” The hit book found its way into a media translation storm, having been developed into a graphic novel, a play, finally settling onto the silver screen with a motion picture. Next he penned the sequel,“The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco”, which was also adapted in a hit play. The show ended up becoming developed by a slew of unemployed actors who were looking for their start, ending with an a record breaking run which saw the play in a winning bout of longevity, becoming the longest running play in Australia’s entire history.
Biscuit is Back
His old pal and character, Henry Biscuit, rose to the occasion yet again with a rather tense crime novel titled, “The Search for Savage Henry.” Some of his other notable works including a satirical self-guided portrait regarding the modern state of masculinity in Australia titled “How to Be a Man.” Another of his more humorous pieces came in the form of, “Off one’s Tits”, which is what you’d call an anthology of sorts, compiling past written articles and essays that were published in other publications.
Another John Birmingham favorite, was a work which took him a total of four years to research, surrounding around the the history of a fellow Australian city, titled “Leviathan:The unauthorized Biography of Sidney.The non-fiction historical read won the 2002 Australia’s National Prize for Nonfiction.
Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time #1)
In 2021, a military experiment which had transformed into the unimaginable made such an impact that it had catapulted a multinational led American armada back into time, within the grips of 1942. The team found themselves smack-dab in the center of a speeding U.S. Naval task force that was directed in route to the Midway Atoll, in what many had thought to have been one of the most adrenaline pumped victories of the war.
The tragedy saw several violent deaths but the reverberation concerning the incident was merely at the doorstep. The man at the helm of the brigade, Admirals Nimitz, who doesn’t even have the slightest notion of what a satellite link, helicopter or even a nuclear weapon. Another first, is the encountering of a British naval commander and an African-American colonel, who was not only half-Pakistani but a woman. In the amadas firestorm heat, they soon discover that those 21st century soldiers, were a little on the underwhelming side of valiant.
Admiral Nimitz
The story’s central figure, Admiral Nimitz, strongly and definitely led the charge of this occasionally bumbling crew or warriors and took such a dire scenario, in the face of an adversity which he or any the men has ever seen. When the all-to-intense thought of the reality of he and his armada’s time warped situation, Nimitz was the man for the job. The bravery of his steadfast character spread onto the others, soon discovering the loopholes, twists, and the realizations of how they got there, was the only thing to get his men back to their time and for the ultimate victory for which defied his name.
Designated Targets (Axis of Time #2)
The highly anticipated sequel to Weapons of Choice, A two dictating threat in Stalin and Hitler, both have sanctioned their borders, circa 1942. These two nations find themselves in agreeance regarding the varied phases in the studies concerning a new Ukrainian research facility. At the same time, a whole new element in the battle of the Midway is beginning to brew new light, manifesting into a defunct military experiment. Cutting edge warships, nuclear warheads and rocket blasted grenades, spread across the entire pacific, in an insurmountable and shocking scene of destruction.
The newbies from the future U.S. are welcomed by the perfect concoction of excitement and utter fear. The suspicions that made their way to the surface, burst into a chaotic scene of brutal violence, which nobody would have ever suspected.
Henry Arnold
The central hero of this fine sequel is Gen.Henry Arnold. Arnold has more than enough on his plate, a multi-war chaos in the midst of its prime and a horrific scene that he and his men, whom have witnessing far too much destruction and bloodshed, have given way forcefully into the psyches of his men.
Even when he is staring right back into the evil, demented and methodical eyes of Hitler and Stalin, there is only triumph set in his sights. Courage, determination and a subtle grace, inhabit the general, only excepting the ultimate close of this crazy war, finally hold the key to the ever mind-boggling mystery of the time-trodden Navy task force.
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reading the shattered skies and I hope the 3rd book in this series (when?) is as good as the first 2.
Just finished stalins hammer, axis of time novel. Will world war 3.1 be written, and when will be published.
Regards
Pete
Loved Sleeper Agent. The first I have listened to. Need to know what the follow up book is called PLEASE!!
Love your work. Have read about half. I will continue dipping into the “world” of John Birmingham. Currently into “American Kill Switch”. Great read, great trilogy.