The Prime Minister's Potato and other essays

By Anne-Marie Conde

After thirty years confined within museum walls, a restless history curator steps out for air. In this book of essays, Anne-Marie Cond grants herself freedom to ask fresh questions about the significance of objects and places within the lives of ordinary people. Cemeteries, junk shops, war memorials. Stones and scraps and scrawls. These are where this author goes for inspiration.

Whether it's a wet greasy pavement in Hobart or a message in chalk in Sydney: Cond can coax a historical narrative out of the most meagre sources. Along the way she asks why anyone would offer a potato as a gift to a prime minister? How could this humble vegetable help us think about Australia's past?

Throughout, Cond casts a patient and gently curious gaze over her subjects. Many writers are fascinated by unrecorded lives, but where there are records, Cond is sure to find them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1763733130
• ISBN13: 9781763733138
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Upswell Publishing
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"