Australian non-fiction 2018

Places We Swim: Exploring Australia’s Best Beaches, Pools, Waterfalls, Lakes, Hot Springs and Gorges
This beautiful photographic and curated travel guide celebrates Australia's long-standing connection to water
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Crossing The Line: How Australian Cricket Lost its Way
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Quarterly Essay 72: Net Loss - The Inner Life in the Digital Age
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Inside Story: The First Ten Years
In this collection published to mark the 10th anniversary of the highly regarded online publication Inside Story, leading thinkers and cultural critics navigate the key issues of the turbulent years that have marked Australian and...
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Seize the Fire: Three Speeches
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Habitat: A practical guide to creating a wildlife-friendly Australian garden
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Steam Australia: Locomotives that Galvanised the Nation
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The Land Before Avocado
The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come.
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Bees of Australia: A Photographic Guide
Discover the beauty and diversity of Australia's native bees.
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On J.M. Coetzee: Writers on Writers
With tenderness and insight, Ceridwen Dovey draws on personal history to explore the Nobel Prize-winner's work - how his books 'do theory' on themselves - while also tracing the intellectual heritage that has been passed from...
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The World Was Whole
The follow-up to Fiona Wright's essay collection Small Acts of Disappearance - winner of the Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction, shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the NSW Premier's Award for...
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The Barefoot Investor for Families
The new book from Scott Pape, the Barefoot Investor.
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Power of the Pedal: The Story of Australian Cycling
In Power of the Pedal, cycling journalist Rupert Guinness reveals 200 years of the bike in Australia, covering not only its place in Australian everyday life but also the big races, here and abroad. Along the way, read about...
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Hugh Stretton: Selected Writings
A public intellectual known for his deeply humane approach to social and urban issues, Hugh Stretton's thinking has influenced Australian public debates for many decades. Fundamentally, Stretton wanted to make Australia fairer.
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Blue Lake
I'm here already, in the bleak, awful hour on Dudley Flats in which the final dereliction of Elsie Williams will come to pass. I'm beginning with it, so you won't be under any illusion as to how it ends.
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Rusted Off: Why Country Australia is Fed Up
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This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitudes to Indigenous...
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Trace: Who Killed Maria James?
The riveting inside story of a journalist's cold-case investigation of a shocking murder.
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Dunera Lives: A Visual History
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Quarterly Essay 70: Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next
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Break-up Boss
Break-ups suck but you don't have to suck at break-ups.
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Balancing Acts: Women in Sport - Essays on Power, Performance, Bodies and Love
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On Patrick White: Writers on Writers
In this passionate and electrifying short book, Christos Tsiolkas writes about his year spent reading Patrick White, of his ‘discovery and rediscovery of White as a writer.' The result is a vivid introduction to and...
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Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society
A courageous and passionately argued treatise on how we harness the power of the new era to create a stronger, fairer society.
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The Sydney Wars
The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians - described as ‘this constant sort of war' by one early colonist - around the greater Sydney region.
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Romance Was Born
The fully illustrated story of one of the most successful Australian fashion houses of the last 15 years. Romance Was Born collections are lavish, larger than life, iconic and iconaclastic, and this gorgeous book is a celebration...
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RetroSuburbia: the downshifter’s guide to a resilient future
This 592 page manual shows how Australians can downshift and retrofit their homes, gardens, communities and, above all, themselves to be more self-organised, sustainable and resilient into an uncertain future. It promises a...
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Quarterly Essay 69: Moment of Truth: History and Australia’s Future
Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past. Indigenous recognition and a new push for a republic await action.
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Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World
In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell, Randomistas is a brilliant and entertaining exploration of a hidden but vital foundation of modern life.
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Silent Invasion
In 2008 Clive Hamilton was at Parliament House in Canberra when the Beijing Olympic torch relay passed through. He watched in bewilderment as a small pro-Tibet protest was overrun by thousands of angry Chinese students. Where did...
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On Borrowed Time
A stunning new collection of essays from Australia's leading public intellectual.
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Roar
A celebration of the wonderful characters of the AFLW and the remarkable success of the new Women's League.
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Trump in Asia: The New World Disorder: Australian Foreign Affairs: Issue 2
Towards an independent foreign policy.
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