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John Birmingham

John Birmingham is a British-Australian author known for his work in science fiction, alternate history, crime fiction, and non-fiction. He began his publishing journey by writing stories for a student newspaper at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Subsequently, he contributed articles to Rolling Stone and the Australian edition of Penthouse. However, he became most famous for his memoir, He Died With a Felafel in His Hand, which was adapted into a stage play, film, and graphic novel. Birmingham also authored the Axis of Time trilogy, a series that blends alternate history with techno-thriller elements, featuring authors from these genres as minor characters. His debut book was the aforementioned memoir, followed by a sequel titled The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco in 1998. Below is a list of John Birmingham’s books in the order of their original publication.

John Birmingham became a published novelist in 1970 with the novel Our Time Is Now: Notes from the High School Underground. Below is a list of John Birmingham's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of A Girl in Time Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
A Girl in Time (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Golden Minute (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Axis Of Time Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Weapons of Choice (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Designated Targets (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Final Impact (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Axis of Time: Reloaded Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
World War 3.1 (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Axis Of Time: Stalin's Hammer Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Rome (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cairo (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Paris (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Dave vs. The Monsters Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Emergence (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Resistance (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ascendance (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Soul Full of Guns (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Protocol for Monsters (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Demons of Butte Crack County (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of End of Days Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Emergence (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Protocol for Monsters (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Resistance (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Soul Full of Guns (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ascendance (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Demons of Butte Crack County (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Without Warning Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Zero Day Code (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fail State (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
American Kill Switch (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of The Cruel Stars Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Without Warning (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
After America (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Angels Of Vengeance (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Cruel Stars (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Shattered Skies (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Forever Dead (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Javan War (With: Jason Lambright) (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sleeper Agent: An Audible Original (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Here Be Monsters (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Captain of the Gate (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fortune and Glory (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Blacks Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Our Time Is Now: Notes from the High School Underground (1970) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
How to be a Man (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Off One's Tits: Ill-Considered Rants And Raves from a Graceless Oaf Named John Birmingham (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dopeland; Taking The High Road Through Australia's Marijuana Culture (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
How to Be a Writer (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Stranger Thingies: From Felafel to Now (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Seven Stages of Drinking Martinis. (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
On Father (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Quarterly Essay Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice (By: Helen Garner) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Prosper: A Voyage at Sea (By: Simon Leys) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The One Day (By: David Malouf) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Brave Ones (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cypherpunk Revolutionary: On Julian Assange (By: Robert Manne) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Quarterly Essay 1 In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right (By: Robert Manne) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 3 The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction (By: Guy Rundle) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America (By: Don Watson) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Beyond Belief: What Future for Labor? (By: John Button) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 5 Girt By Sea: Australia, the Refugees and the Politics of Fear (By: Mungo MacCallum) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Paradise Betrayed: West Papua's Struggle for Independence (By: John Martinkus) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens (By: Amanda Lohrey) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Beautiful Lies: Population and Environment In Australia (By: Tim Flannery) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bad Company: The Cult of the CEO (By: Gideon Haigh) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way To Nationhood (By: Germaine Greer) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Made in England:Australia's British Inheritance (By: David Malouf) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sending Them Home: Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference; Quarterly Essay 13 (By: Robert Manne,David Corlett) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mission Impossible: The Sheikhs, the U.S. and the Future of Iraq (By: Paul McGeough) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 16 Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics (By: Raimond Gaita) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
(By: John Hirst) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows (By: Gail Bell) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia (By: Judith Brett) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 20 A Time for War (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
What's Left?: The Death of Social Democracy (By: Clive Hamilton) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 22 Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia (By: Amanda Lohrey) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The History Question: Who Owns the Past?; Quarterly Essay 23 (By: Inga Clendinnen) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
His Master's Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard (By: David Marr) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bipolar Nation: How To Win the 2007 Election; Quarterly Essay 25 (By: Peter Hartcher) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option (By: Ian Lowe) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard (By: Ian Lowe) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Love & Money: The Family and the Free Market (By: Anne Manne) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 30 Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention (By: Paul Toohey) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
American Revolution: The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama (By: Kate Jennings) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia? (By: Tim Flannery) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom; Quarterly Essay 33 (By: Guy Pearse) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 35 Radical Hope: Education and Equality for Australia (By: Noel Pearson) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country (By: Mungo MacCallum) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 37 What's Right?: The Future of Conservatism in Australia (By: Waleed Aly) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd (By: David Marr) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 39 Power Shift: Australia's Future between Washington and Beijing (By: HughWhite) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era; Quarterly Essay 40 (By: George Megalogenis) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 41 The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World (By: David Malouf) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share: Country and City in Australia (By: Judith Brett) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bad News: Murdoch's (By: Robert Manne) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet (By: Andrew Charlton) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals (By: Anna Krien) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
After The Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis (By: Tim Flannery) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future (By: Mark Latham) (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 50 Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny (By: Anna Goldsworthy) (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation (By: Laura Tingle) (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell (By: David Marr) (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 52 Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World (By: Linda Jaivin) (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 53 That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution (By: Paul Toohey) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country after the China Boom (By: Andrew Charlton) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 55 A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth (By: Noel Pearson) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer (By: Guy Rundle) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 57 Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly (By: Karen Hitchcock) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State (By: David Kilcullen) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power (By: David Marr) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern (By: Laura Tingle) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal (By: George Megalogenis) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull (By: Annabel Crabb) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Firing Line: Australia's Path to War (By: James Brown) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within: American Politics in the Time of Trump (By: Don Watson) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming (By: Stan Grant) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The White Queen: One Nation and the Politics of Race (By: David Marr) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock (By: Anna Krien) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal (By: Benjamin Law) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Without America: Australia in the New Asia (By: HughWhite) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future (By: Mark McKenna) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next (By: Richard Denniss) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman (By: Laura Tingle) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age (By: Sebastian Smee) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 73 Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation (By: Rebecca Huntley) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison won and Bill Shorten lost (By: Erik Jensen) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 75 Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap (By: Annabel Crabb) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge (By: Peter Hartcher) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cry Me a River: The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin; Quarterly Essay 77 (By: Margaret Simons) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future (By: Judith Brett) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics (By: Katharine Murphy) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The High Road: What Australia can learn from New Zealand (By: Laura Tingle) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Getting to Zero: Australia's Energy Transition (By: Colin James,Frank Bongiorno,Shireen Morris,John Quiggin,AndrewLeigh,Laura Tingle,Alan Finkel,AlanAtkinson,Bain Attwood,Tim Hazledine,MirandaJohnson,Ben McKay,Hugh Riminton,DonRussell) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Exit Strategy: Politics After the Pandemic (By: George Megalogenis) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power (By: Lech Blaine) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia (By: Jess Hill) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (By: Sarah Krasnostein) (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sleepwalk to War: Australia���s Unthinking Alliance with America (By: HughWhite) (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Uncivil Wars: How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy (By: Waleed Aly,ScottStephens) (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics (By: Katharine Murphy) (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Quarterly Essay 89 The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal (By: Saul Griffith) (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal (By: MeganDavis) (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS (By: Micheline Lee) (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (By: Alan Kohler) (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (By: Stephen Smith) (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future (By: Jo��lle Gergis) (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink; Quarterly Essay 95 (By: Don Watson) (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Minority Report: The New Shape of Australian Politics (By: George Megalogenis) (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Losing It: Can we stop violence against women and children?; Quarterly Essay 97 (By: Jess Hill) (2025) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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