Melbourne Jewish Book Week 2022

In Praise of Veg
A joyous must-have vegetable companion for the vegetarian or simply veg-forward: 'Alice Zaslavsky is a force of
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Alice’s Food A-Z
Culinary correspondent Alice Zaslavsky's first book for young foodies takes readers on an edible adventure; packed with delicious facts, clever cooking tips and kid-approved recipes.
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Otherland: A Journey with My Daughter
Maria Tumarkin travels with her Australian-born teenage daughter, Billie, back to Russia and Ukraine to have her experience first-hand the seismic shifts of her family's native country. For Maria the trip back is no simple stroll...
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Axiomatic
Janet Malcolm meets The Empathy Exams in a genre-bending work on how people understand the traumas they inherit.
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Fugitive
A beautiful work of the imagination, straddling history, memory, trauma and testimony
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The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama
In the style of literary non-fiction comes a compelling, true story that will appeal to mystery, crime and "CSI" aficionados and anyone interested in justice for all in the midst of cultural diversity.
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A Long Way from No Go
This is a memoir of an Aboriginal woman, Tjanara Goreng Goreng, who began life without any of the advantages of her fellow non-Indigenous Australians except for grit, humour and diverse talent in spades. Through one woman's story,...
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So You Think You Know What’s Good for You?
Informative, accessible and easy to understand, So You Think You Know What's Good for You? has everything you need to know about health and wellbeing, delivered with Dr Norman Swan's trademark clarity and wit.
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Penny Wong: Passion and Principle
A revelatory portrait of one of the most talented, poised and respected women in Australian politics, written by one of Australia's foremost biographers.
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Found, Wanting
This is a book for anyone who has ever loved someone who has died. Or who has ever loved someone. Because grief is the language of love, after all.
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Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe
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The Book of Dirt
An extraordinary and absorbing novelisation of one family's tale of Holocaust survival and a grandson's unrelenting dedication to ensuring his ancestor's stories will never be forgotten, is now available in a smaller competitively...
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The Trauma Cleaner
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife...
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The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith
The second book by the bestselling, award-winning author of The Trauma Cleaner. With her trademark compassion, observational rigour and unique humanity, Sarah Krasnostein takes us into the lives of people who believe in something...
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Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning
How can we mend Australia's broken mental health system?
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Imperfect
By turns illuminating, confronting and deeply personal, Imperfect challenges us all to consider how we exist in the world and how our bodies shape the people we become.
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The Writer Laid Bare
The Writer Laid Bare is a book for everyone who loves the craft of good writing. Be they a voracious reader wanting to know more or an emerging writer themselves
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Split: True Stories of Leaving, Loss and New Beginnings
In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia's most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking stories of...
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Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer
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Live a Little
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her...
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The Medicine: A Doctor’s Notes
Dr Karen Hitchcock takes us to the frontlines of everyday treatment, turning her acute gaze to everything from the flu season to dementia, plastic surgery to the humble sick day
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HEAT Series 3 Number 1
First published in 1996, HEAT is a literary journal dedicated to publishing Australian and overseas writers of the highest quality.
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Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly
In this short, powerful book, Karen Hitchcock shines a light on ageism in our society
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The Momentous, Uneventful Day
Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office's final triumph?
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The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
H. V. ‘Doc' Evatt has long been obscured by Menzies's broad shadow, as the Labor Opposition Leader through the prosperous and complacent 1950s. In this book, one of our finest writers and sharpest minds shows Evatt in his...
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A Horse Walks into a Bar
Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't know whether to laugh or cry - and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is...
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More Than I Love My Life
From the winner of the International Booker Prize and one of the finest writers at work today, an epic and deeply moving novel about the legacy of war and trauma on three generations of women
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The Memory Trap
A novel about memory, music, friendship, family rifts and reconciliation, this is an intelligent, compelling read set in Melbourne.
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Invented Lives
Knowing what you want is hard. Accepting what is possible is harder still.
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Abomination
A compelling and compassionate debut about friendship, faith, family and identity.
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X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
This is popular WW2 history at its heart-stopping best, fuelled by an incredible new story
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Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch
The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.
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The Covered Wife
Intelligent, unusual and gripping, The Covered Wife is the debut novel of Sydney author Lisa Emanuel. This captivating story takes us from a seemingly perfect marriage deep into a closed community, and asks 'Where would you draw...
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The Incidental Tourist
The extraordinary travel tales of an eminent scientist
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An Insider’s Plague Year
An illuminating glimpse into the scientific response to the COVID-19 pandemic from Australia's most prominent 'insider'
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Summertime
Stories written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia.
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The Passenger
The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht.
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The Middlepause: On Turning Fifty
In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a fifty-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience?
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Insomnia
An intense, lyrical, witty, and humane exploration of a state we too often consider only superficially.
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After the Golden Age; American Jewish Writing in the Twenty-First Century: Jewish Quarterly 248
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly examines the current generation of leading American Jewish writers as they grapple with challenges facing Jewish America today, including its relationship with religion, Israel, politics and...
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The Return of History: Jewish Quarterly 244
Nationalism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism have been rising in Europe. Will this illiberal turn be exacerbated by COVID-19?
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