The Age Book of the Year Non-Fiction Shortlist 2011
The Many Worlds Of R.H. Mathews: In Search Of An Australian Anthropologist
$59.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews is about the life and work of the renowned 19th century surveyor turned ethnologist, R.H. Mathews, whose studies of Aboriginal Australia were path-breaking and quite controversial. His chi... Buy or find out more →
When Horse Became Saw: A Family's Journey Through Autism
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
When Anthony Macris' son was diagnosed with autism, he and his partner Kathy had two choices: do what they were told – and could afford – or do what they thought best. This is the tragic, joyful, instructive story of how... Buy or find out more →
A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock
$59.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
While W.K. Hancock may no longer be described as ‘Australia’s most distinguished historian’, he has some enduring claims to our attention. No other Australian historian – and few elsewhere – can match his ‘span’, to use ... Buy or find out more →
When It Rains: A Memoir
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
The heart-wrenching but triumphant story of rebuilding a life and a family
'My body, suddenly, carries two stories of loss … One is easy for people to recognise. My mother died of cancer. I watched her age twenty-five ye... Buy or find out more →
Sydney
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Nsw University Pr
"Sydney may look golden, but this is the sunniness of Mozart, whose bright notes, especially at their most joyous, seem to cast themselves out across a great abyss."
Sydney has always been the sexiest and most gaudy of o... Buy or find out more →