Australian non-fiction 2017

The Conversation Yearbook 2017: 50 articles that informed public debate
In a time of heightened hostility towards experts, academics and scientists, the 2017 collection of the best Conversation articles and essays is a must-read. If proof were needed that academia makes an essential contribution to...
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Rogue Nation
This fascinating first-hand account of the phenomenon of One Nation, from within Canberra and outside it, will be compulsory reading for any Australian who cares about their vote.
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Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke
This fine collection includes John Clarke's writing for radio, television, stage and screen, as well as previously unpublished pieces.
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There It Is Again: Collected Writings
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Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market
This illustrated anthology of the oral histories of the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne takes you behind the counters to reveal intimate views of the market's unique way of life. Drawn from more than a hundred and eighty...
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The Woman Who Fooled the World
Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself from terminal brain cancer with a healthy diet. She built a global business based upon her claims. There was just one problem: she'd never had cancer.
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Quarterly Essay 68: Without America - Australia in the New Asia
America is fading, and China will soon be the dominant power in our region. What does this mean for Australia's future?
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Buddhism for the Unbelievably Busy
Way cheaper than hours of therapy, Buddhism for the Unbelievably Busy is your go-to guide for zen!
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Acland Street: The Grand Lady of St Kilda
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The Best Australian Essays 2017
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More Great Properties of Country Victoria
This fascinating and beautiful book, sequel to the bestselling Great Properties of Country Victoria, takes us into the private world of twelve notable properties. Through their early histories we follow their fortunes;...
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No Front Line
Australia's foremost investigative journalist goes deep into the heart of our Special Forces long war in Afghanistan.
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The Drover’s Wife: A Collection
A celebration of a great Australian love affair, 'The Drover's Wife' in the Australian imagination: stories, performances and images.
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A Thoroughly Unhelpful History of Australian Sport
Titus O'Reily, Australia's least insightful sports writer, takes you through the history of Australian sport and the people who made it. In his inimitable comic style, he explains how sport has shaped this wide brown country into...
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A Pleasure to be Here: The Best of Clarke and Dawe
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True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction
An extraordinary book of collected short non-fiction, spanning fifty years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.
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The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, The Settlers and the Protectors
In this superbly researched book Bain Attwood eschews the generalisations of national and colonial history to provide a finely grained local history of the......
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The Harbour: A city’s heart, a country’s soul
In the bestselling tradition of Peter Ackroyd's The Thames, a celebration of one of the world's great waterways
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2017
Would it be ethical to eat sentient aliens? What is the basis of the difference between the sexes? Why is there something rather than nothing? Now in its seventh year, The Best Australian Science Writing 2017 draws on the...
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The Big Picture: Towards an Independent Foreign Policy: Australian Foreign Affairs Issue 1
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Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters
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Whiteley on Trial
Offers a tale of obsession, greed and ego, where the richly diverse worlds of art, horse-racing, high finance, the luxury car trade and a humble tradesman collide - and no one is entirely innocent. Except perhaps the tradesman.
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The Catch
Bringing her personal passion for throwing in a line, author Anna Clark celebrates the enduring pleasure of fishing in The Catch: The Story of Fishing in Australia
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Tinkering: Australians Re-invent DIY Culture
At a time when the labour-market is failing as a source of security and identity for many, domestic tinkering is emerging as a legitimate occupation in a.....
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On Kate Jennings: Writers on Writers
‘Kate says she doesn't know what to say about writing. When people ask, she tells them to prepare for a life of failure.'
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On John Marsden: Writers on Writers
In this fascinating book, Alice Pung writes about one of her deep influences - the much-loved and hugely successful John Marsden.
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Unmaking a Murder
An investigation into an intriguing murder case and an unprecedented account of how the decisions made by organs of government can be defended and.....
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Asylum by Boat
In the late 1970s, 150,000 Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians arrived in Australia by boat, fleeing war and oppression. This influx of people, and the way the Fraser government handled it, marked not only the real end of the...
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Please Explain
After eighteen years in the political wilderness, Pauline Hanson is back and more powerful than ever. Please Explain is a compelling, intimate look at how an Ipswich fish and chip shop lady changed the nation - and how she speaks...
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Quarterly Essay 67: Moral Panic 101 - Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal
Are Australian schools safe? And if they're not, what happens when kids are caught in a bleak collision between ill-equipped school staff and a confected media scandal?
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Stranger Thingies: From Felafel to now
John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved....
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Escape Artist: The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck
The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his.....
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‘Me Write Myself’: The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen’s Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47
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Gimme Shelter: Stories of Courage, Endurance and Survival from the Frontline and Back Home
For many returned service men and women, coming home is when the battle really begins. These are the stories that must be told.
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The Road to Ruin
In the original edition of The Road to Ruin, prominent political commentator, author, and columnist for The Australian Niki Savva revealed the ruinous behaviour of former prime minister Tony Abbott and his chief of staff, Peta...
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Songlines and Fault Lines: Epic Walks of the Red Centre
Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia. What they find is both beautiful and disturbing: wilderness, desire, an ancient philosophy of home, and the confusing countenance of the Australian frontier, a...
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The Death and Life of Australian Soccer
This is more than a book about soccer - it is the story of Australia's national identity.
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Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice
Rich with fascinating case studies, and eloquent in its defence of civil society, Watching Out is a beacon of legal liberalism in an intemporate age.
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The Show: Another Side of Santamaria’s Movement
In 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia's Catholic bishops created a clandestine church organisation to smash the Communist Party's massive trade union base. Soon, The Movement, working closely with...
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Taming Toxic People
Bestselling author David Gillespie turns his attention to a phenomenon that damages businesses, seeds mental disease and discomfort and can bring civilisations to the brink of implosion - the psychopath.
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Sunlight and Seaweed
Internationally renowned climate change expert Professor Tim Flannery presents a detailed and fascinating vision of the technologies that will prove invaluable in ensuring a sustainable future for our planet.
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The Crying Years: Australia’s Great War
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Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry
A jaw-dropping account of how one company came to own every poker machine in Tasmania - and the cost to democracy, the public purse and problem gamblers and their families.
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Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam Government’s 21st Century Agenda
The changes we have made will remain - like all great Labor legislation - permanent landmarks in our history.' Gough Whitlam The Whitlam government propelled....
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Against Native Title: Conflict and creativity in outback Australia
Against Native Title is about one group's lived experience of a divisive native title claim in the outback town of Ceduna, where the native title claims process has....
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Charles Bean: Man, myth, legacy
Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. In Charles Bean, Australia's top military...
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La Mama
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The Memory of Music
The Memory of Music is a moving and evocative memoir that will appeal to music lovers everywhere.
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Sons of God
The Sons of God are who Australia turns to in times of extreme crisis. The SOG's top-secret methods, advanced training and incredible bravery have made them the ultimate urban warriors in the war against high-level crime and...
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Climate Wars
As the consequences of climate change become perilously close to the point of no-return, time-wasting wars over what to do distract us from taking real action. Climate Wars argues that only Labor, the party with a proven track...
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Donald Horne: Selected Writings
One of Australia's leading thinkers for close to fifty years, Donald Horne was probably the best Australian non-fiction writer of his generation.
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A Good Life to the End: Taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death
A professor of intensive care asks why so many elderly people linger in pain and confusion in ICU when all they want is to die at home in peace and with their loved ones. A crucial and timely rallying cry against unnecessary...
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Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia’s Climate Deadlock
The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Extreme weather is becoming all too familiar. And the Coalition government is divided and paralysed.
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Random Life: Cartoons by Judy Horacek
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Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment
Journalist Jenny Valentish investigates the female experience of drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way.
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Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion
An astonishing work of creative non-fiction, about the enigma at the heart of modern medicine, and the mystery of the interrupted self.
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Beyond Veiled Cliches
Amal Awad spoke with women in the Arab world and Arab Australian women to discover what their lives are really like. The breadth, variety and beauty of what she discovered will surprise you.
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Fighting Hislam: Women, Faith and Sexism
The Muslim community that is portrayed to the West is a misogynist's playground; within the Muslim community, feminism is often regarded with.....
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Depends What You Mean by Extremist: Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables
No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of ..
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Code Breakers: Inside the Shadow World of Signals Intelligence in Australia’s Two Bletchley Parks
The extraordinary untold story of the brilliant men and women who cracked the Japanese codes from Australia during World War II.
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A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work
The first full-length study of Helen Garner's forty years of writing - a literary portrait that maps Garner's works against the different stages of her life.
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first, we make the beast beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety
The world's foremost writer on the dangers of sugar discovers the hidden value and advantages of being an anxious person.
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Peak: Reinventing Middle Age
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The Case Against Fragrance
A beautifully written, clear-eyed investigation of the science of scent and the power of the fragrance industry, from one of Australia's greatest writers.
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Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene
Humans have become so powerful that we are disrupting the functioning of the earth, to the point where scientists now consider we have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Clive Hamilton argues this forces us to...
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Spoonfed Generation
It's well established that parents in western countries such as Australia currently do too much for their kids, albeit with good intentions. Before driving their kids to.....
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The Pleasures of Leisure
In today's crazily busy world the importance of making time for leisure is more vital than ever. Yet so many of us lack a talent for it. We are working longer.....
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Fifty: Half a century of Australian Dance Theatre
When Elizabeth Cameron Dalman founded Australian Dance Theatre in 1965, she set out to create a company that would be radical, daring and new. Maggie Tonkin explores ADT's fertile, fifty-year history through interviews and...
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Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the world since 1942
Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it.
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The Mighty West: The Bulldogs' Journey from Daydream Believers to Premiership Heroes
In 2016 the Western Bulldogs stunned the AFL world by winning the Premiership - the club's first since 1954, and only its second ever. It was an unprecedented rise to success, capped by a stunning Grand Final victory that left...
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Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen - One Nation and the Politics of Race
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation.
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The Honest History Book
In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity The passionate historians of the ...
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They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from detention
Revealing, moving and confronting accounts of the reality of life in mandatory detention by those who've experienced it.
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China Matters: Getting It Right for Australia
Australia and China face a new era, but are we ready?
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Still Lucky
At a time when politics seems increasingly negative and our society increasingly divided, Still Lucky shows that we are more fortunate than we think, and have more in common than we know.
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The Family
A powerful work of investigative journalism that reveals the legacy of a notorious cult.
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Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity
In 1908 Ernest Westlake collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools in Tasmania. He believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But Westlake unwittingly...
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Breaking the Mould
An extraordinary transformation is taking place in Australian sport; from suburban footy fields to stadium cage fights, sportswomen are breaking through the...
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Buddhism for Breakups
Buddhist philosophy has helped radio, television and comedy star Meshel Laurie survive many life crises. But when she found herself facing the end of her nineteen-year marriage, she realised there were no Buddhist books about...
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9 Ways to a Resilient Child
The author of 21 Days to a Happier Family, Dr Justin Coulson, on raising kids who'll bounce back from adversity and challenging times. Have you ever watched your child give up too quickly and...
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The Princess Bitchface Syndrome 2.0
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