Six yearsafter vacating his position as the longest-serving Premier of New South Wales,Bob Carr returned to politics in his dream job: as Foreign Minister ofAustralia and a senior federal cabinet minister.

For 18 monthshe kept a diary documenting a whirl of high-stakes events on the world stage the election of Australia to the UN Security Council, the war in Syria and meetingswith the most powerful people on the planet. And they all unfold against thegripping, uncertain domestic backdrop of Labor Party infighting, plummeting pollsand a leadership change from Gillard back to Rudd.

This compelling diaryprovides an intimate glimpse into the day-to-day workings of a foreign ministerand proves that Carr is not only a master politician and statesman, but a greatwriter as well.

Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year 2015.