Best Non-Fiction of 2009
The Storm Of War
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
On 2 August 1944, in the wake of the complete destruction of the German Army Group Centre in Belorussia, Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons by the rank he had reached in the First World War. 'R... More »
The March Of Patriots: The Struggle For Modern Australia
$59.99$34.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
The March of Patriots looks at the creation of a modern Australia during the 1991–2007 era of Paul Keating and John Howard.
Keating and Howard were the first two Australian prime ministers of the globalised age. They w... More »
Killing: Misadventures in Violence
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press )
How hard it it to kill, as a hunter on a Kangaroo cull, as a worker in an abbatoir, as an executioner in a prison, as a soldier at war?
Ninety years after World War I, police in a Victorian country town uncover the mummi... More »
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Affection: A Memoir Of Love Sex And Intimacy
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
Krissy Kneen was raised by a very protective, quite eccentric family who avoided any mention of sexuality: perhaps it was no coincidence that she became obsessed by the very idea of sex. After leaving home she ... More »
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The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country
'The country's finest work of literature so far this century. A haunting moral maze, described with such intimate observation and exquisite restraint that I kept... More »
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Down To The Crossroads: On The Trail Of The 2008 US Presidential Election
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The surprise hit of last December was The Battle for Bennelong, Margot Saville’s on-the-road, campaign trail account of the nail-biting 2007 federal election. This year, Crikey correspondent Guy Rundle gives us the play-... More »
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighbourhood
$34.95 (Paperback book / Canongate )
A devastating portrait of the American drugs war, from the creators of the award-winning series The Wire.
The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known—and cautiously avoided—by most of... More »
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The Water Dreamers: How Water and Silence Shaped Australia
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
The long-awaited history that will change the way Australians think about their country.
The Water Dreamers is the story of the settlement of Australia: of the scarcity of water and the need to fill an imagined silence w... More »
Melbourne: The Making of a Drinking and Eating Capital
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Hardie Grant )
Melbourne’s bustling laneways and tree-lined streets are renowned for their incredible choice of places to eat and drink – from stylish sidewalk cafes and dark, hidden-away bars to elegant award-winning restaurants and c... More »
MoVida Rustica: Spanish Traditions and Recipes
$59.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )
Following the multi-award winning title MoVida, chef and restaurateur Frank Camorra returns to his native Spain in this companion book. In MoVida Rustica, Frank delivers many traditional as well as innovative recipes tha... More »
Four Days In November: The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy
$24.95 (Paperback book / W W Norton )
Four Days in November is an extraordinarily exciting, precise, and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. It is drawn from Reclaiming History: T... More »
The Ghost At The Wedding: A True Story Of Heroism And Homecoming
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
In the year of 1914, in the canefields of northern New South Wales, the young men couldn't wait to set off for the adventure of war. The women coped as best they could, raised the children, lived in fear of being next to... More »
Piano Lessons
$27.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
'Marvellous. Enlightenment and joy on every page' - Helen Garner
'I loved this book. Anna Goldsworthy's memoir left me awed, inspired and humbled.' - Alice Pung
In this remarkable memoir, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her fir... More »
This Is Water: Some Thoughts Delivered On A Significant Occasion About Living A Compassionate Life
$24.99 (Hardcover book / Little Brown )
How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric in... More »
Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets
$26.95 (Paperback book / Canongate )
The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed or bludgeoned to death. At the centre of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for ... More »
Bottersnikes And Other Lost Things: A Celebration of Australian Illustrated Children’s Books
$59.99 (Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press )
Lazy Bottersnikes in outback rubbish tips, Sir Pronoun's dilemma about standing in Miss Noun's place and the story of how Jack built a house, a hut or a shack are all to be found in this treasury of Australian children's... More »
A Lucky Child
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Profile )
Thomas Buergenthal is unique. He is a judge at the International Court in The Hague who was rescued from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven. In this, A Lucky Child, his funny and heartfelt memoirs, he tell... More »
Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Companion: Dig, Plant, Water, Grow, Harvest, Chop, Cook
$125.00 (Hardcover book / Lantern Books )
If you have ever dreamed of picking fresh salad leaves for the evening meal, gathering vine-ripened tomatoes or pulling up your own sweet carrots, this is the book for you. Follow in the footsteps of one of Australia's b... More »
The Lost Mother: A Story of Art and Love
$35.00$26.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
After her mother's death in 2005, Anne Summers inherits a portrait of her mother as a child. Mesmerised by this image, she finds herself drawn into the story of how the portrait was painted and eventually found its way i... More »
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The Baader-Meinhof Complex
$45.00 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )
Rooted in the student movement of the 1960s, the story of the Baader-Meinhof group - or the Red Army Faction (RAF), as they called themselves - began in May 1970 with the freeing of Andreas Baader, imprisoned for setting... More »
Patrick White Letters
$34.95 (Paperback book / Random Century )
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