Australian non-fiction 2016

The Best Australian Essays 2016
'The essay creates a place for slow thought on hectic subjects, and that is what the best of this year's crop manage to do.' -Geordie Williamson
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Seriously…You Have to Laugh: Great Yarns and Tall Tales from the Sporting Fields, Dressing Rooms and Commentary Boxes of Australia
Putting his unique spin on our sporting life, Peter FitzSimons celebrates the tall tales and true, the outrageous yarns and the knockabout humour from the footy fields, cricket grounds, dressing rooms, bars and...
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The History of Australia in 100 Objects
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Best Australian Political Cartoons 2016
The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Women of Letters
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Midnight Oil: The Power and the Passion
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The Story of Australia’s People Volume II
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A Single Tree
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True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia
First there was Girt. Now comes... True Girt.
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Under Full Sail
How the mighty clipper ships transformed Australia from convict outpost to a nation.
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Kiffy Rubbo: curating the 1970s
How one woman helped shape the Australian art world.
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Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent
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Bush Heritage Australia: Restoring Nature Step by Step
With a plan to own or manage one per cent of Australia by 2025, Bush Heritage Australia is an organisation with big ambitions. With more than one million hectares in its care, Bush Heritage's achievements are celebrated in this...
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Full Bore
A chance encounter in an auction house is the jumping-off point for William's inimitable take on our sport-obsessed nation, Australian popular culture and the artefacts and memorabilia that both make us cringe with recognition and...
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What do We Want?: The Story of Protest in Australia
In What Do We Want? Clive Hamilton explores the colourful, enthralling and stirring forms of protest used in the big social movements that define modern Australia.
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Living with the Locals: Early Europeans' Experience of Indigenous Life
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The Promise of Things
Some of our strongest, most lasting relationships are hidden in plain view-those we have with objects. What do our possessions do for us? And how do they do it? In The Promise of...
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From the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories
Offers an imaginative and original new telling of modern Australia through the history and stories of ten places, all revisited and explained by award-winning author and historian Mark McKenna, including Sydney Cove, Port...
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Margaret Preston: Recipes for Food and Art
In the style of Sunday's Kitchen, Margaret Preston's cookbook will tell a story of art, food and social times of this much-admired artist. The Margaret Preston recipe book (held in the NGA collection) is full of handwritten...
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The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull, the Incredible Shrinking Man in the Top Hat
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Fair Game
Based on years of interviews and research, Walkley Award-winning journalist Steve Cannane tells for the first time the fascinating story of Australia's vital involvement with this powerful, secretive and punitive cult.
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The Turnbull Gamble
The nation breathed a sigh of relief when Malcolm Turnbull achieved his lifelong dream to become prime minister. Yet months into the job it was unclear what Turnbull wanted to achieve as prime minister. Will Turnbull grow into the...
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What a Time to Be Alive: That and Other Lies of the 2016 Campaign
What a Time to Be Alive: That and Other Lies of the 2016 Campaign is Mark Di Stefano's ugly, unsanitised diary behind the double dissolution election campaign. A poll fought between two wildly...
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Comeback: The Fall and Rise of Geelong
As a boy, James Button fell in love with the Geelong Football Club. It was a family affair. But as the years wore on and the defeats and disappointments mounted, it became clear to him: his team would never win a flag. This book...
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The Near and the Far: New stories from the Asia-Pacific region
From 22 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them.
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Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens
Cottage to mansion, balcony to botanic garden, Planting Dreams will change the way you think about Australian gardens. Acclaimed garden historian Richard Aitken explores the fascinating environmental and social influences that...
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Planet Jackson: Power, Greed and Unions
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Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories
Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully, something tears, and a line that is neither latitude nor longitude opens in...
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The Writer’s Room: Conversations About Writing
A brilliant resource for established and beginning writers and for passionate readers everywhere from a range of acclaimed and much-loved writers, lovingly compiled by the brilliant and insightful Charlotte Wood.
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A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia herald a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. A Handful of Sand tells the story behind...
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Where are Our Boys?: How Newsmaps Won the Great War
The war produced more maps than any time before in history, giving us along the way some of the most beautiful, and sometimes misleading, maps ever published. Where Are Our Boys? tells the story of how the war was fought and won...
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Amazinger Face
Amazing Face is the beauty book for women of all ages. Zoe Foster - beauty journalist, author, woman - offers her valuable experience when it comes to skin, face, eyes, lips, hair, hands and nails, body and makeovers. This book is...
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The Drowned Man: A true story of life death and murder on HMAS Australia
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Famous Detective Stories: True Tales of Australian Crime
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Not Just For this Life: Gough Whitlam Remembered
When Gough Whitlam died in October 2014, the outpouring of affectionate remembrances and genuine grief expressed across Australia was extraordinary. Not Just For This Life commemorates and celebrates Gough's life. It covers the...
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The Game of Their Lives
An incredible untold true story of Australian Rules stars-turned-ANZACs recalled from the WWI frontline to show the world our national game for the first time.
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Five Bells: Being LGBT in Australia
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Quarterly Essay 62: Firing Line - Australia’s Path to War
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Denny Day: The Life and Times of Australia’s Greatest Lawman - the Forgotten Hero of the Myall Creek Massacre
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A Long Time Coming: Essays on old age
This collection of thought-provoking essays explores what it means to grow old in our youth-obsessed world.
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The Trust Deficit
Drawing on contemporary political stories and examples, The Trust Deficit shows us how faith in our politicians has been eroded but how it can be rebuilt. By breaking trust down to its elements - reliability and competence,...
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Trouble: On Trial in Central Australia
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Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru
What has happened on Nauru and Manus since Australia began its most recent offshore processing regime in 2012? This essential book provides a comprehensive and uncompromising overview of the first three years of...
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Gay and Lesbian, Then and Now: Australian Stories from a Social Revolution
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Error Australis
Error Australis is a scholastic and side-splittingly funny account of a young nation that has spent many years seeking its place in the world, and almost as many years not liking what it has found.
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We’re All Going to Die
A joyful book about the necessity of celebrating life in the face of death. The one certainty about life is that everybody is going to die. Yet somehow as a society we have come to deny this...
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It’s Our Country
It's Our Country articulates why constitutional accommodation of indigenous peoples is important for a nation that is home to the oldest continuous civilisation on earth.
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How to Be a Writer: Who smashes deadlines, crushes editors and lives in a solid gold hovercraft
This gonzo guide isn't for the faint-hearted. In high-octane style, best-selling author John Birmingham provides tried-and-tested tips for writing well - and getting paid. Topics covered include how to slay writer's block , what...
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Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead
A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation ... and yet forgotten?
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Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly
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Things My Mother Taught Me
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Who Bombed the Hilton?
Once you start to go through the archives, the story of the Hilton bombing what happened, who probably did it and how the truth was lost becomes apparent.On 13 February 1978 a bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in George...
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The Media and the Massacre: Port Arthur 1996-2016
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Unnecessary Wars
Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a three - year conflict fought in...
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Generation Less: How Australia is Cheating the Young
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The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia
Can we reinvent the Lucky Country? Fifty years ago author Donald Horne described Australia as a lucky country run by second-rate people , adding that its leaders were mostly unaware of events that surround them. In this polemic...
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From the Outer: Footy Like You’ve Never Heard It
A celebration of our great game, From the Outer brings together 30 personal stories about Aussie Rules from unexpected voices: those who are female, Indigenous or gay; those with a disability, a foreign accent or even - perhaps...
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Georgiana Molloy: The Mind That Shines
In 1829, estranged from her family and living in an isolated Scottish village, Georgiana Kennedy makes a sudden decision to marry Captain John Molloy of the Rifle Brigade - a handsome hero with a mysterious past. Together, they...
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The Sick Bag Song
Chronicles Nick Cave's journey with his band the Bad Seeds on a twenty-two-day, North American tour. This personal account blends memories, musings, poetry, lyrics, flights of fancy and a road journal. It explores and develops the...
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Inside Street Art Melbourne
Inside Street Art Melbourne is the ultimate beginner's photographic springboard to street art. Go on your own self-guided tour or take a vicarious visual trip via the images of these powerful and inspiring works of art.
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The Oldest Foods on Earth: A History of Australian Native Foods with Recipes
Why have white Australians so often rejected the delicious and nourishing foods native to our own continent - the wild rices, native fruits, meats, herbs and spices? This is one food revolution that really matters - and it will...
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Credlin & Co: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
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High Seas and High Teas: Voyaging to Australia
Using diary entries and shipboard newspapers, author Roslyn Russell gives a vivid sense of what it was like to leave one life for another and sail across the world into the unknown
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A Murder without Motive: the killing of Rebecca Ryle
In 2004, the body of a young Perth woman was found on the grounds of a primary school. Her name was Rebecca Ryle. The killing would mystify investigators, lawyers, and psychologists - and profoundly rearrange the...
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Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling
A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling Indigenous lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was...
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