Best Non-Fiction of 2009

Killing: Misadventures In Violence
Ninety years after the First World War, police in a Victorian country town uncovered inside a velvet-lined display cabinet, the mummified head of a Turkish soldier - a bullet-ridden souvenir brought home from Gallipoli by a...
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The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
The story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher...
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MoVida Rustica: Spanish Traditions and Recipes
A sumptuous follow-on from MoVida featuring stories and recipes from home kitchens all around Spain.
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Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
A book for the ages. -Los Angeles Times Book Review
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
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Bottersnikes And Other Lost Things
Exploring such things from schooldays to fantasy worlds, from its nineteenth century beginnings to the twenty-first century, this book offers ways of seeing the Australian child's literary history. It illuminates the icons of...
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The Baader-Meinhof Complex
Tells the story of how a small group of young middle-class people, out of moral indignation about the Vietnam War and the injustices of capitalist society, turned to bombings, kidnappings and murder - thus resorting to flagrant...
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