Best Non-Fiction of 2009
Killing: Misadventures in Violence
$35.00 – Paperback / Melbourne University 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... Buy or find out more→
Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex and Intimacy
$34.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Kneen was raised by a protective, eccentric family who avoided any mention of sexuality: perhaps it was no coincidence that she became obsessed by the very idea of sex. The story of a life shaped by overwhelming appetite, and of a... Buy or find out more→
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
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... Buy or find out more→
MoVida Rustica: Spanish Traditions and Recipes
$59.95 – Hardback / 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... Buy or find out more→
Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
$22.95 – Paperback / WW Norton & Co
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: The... Buy or find out more→
This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life
$24.99 – Hardback / Little, Brown & Company
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 intellect... Buy or find out more→