Kara Nicholson
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Review — 20 Apr 2023
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes & Ann Goldstein (trans.)
It is late autumn in 1950 and 43-year-old Valeria goes out to buy cigarettes for her husband. In the tobacco shop, she sees a stack of black, shiny, thick notebooks…
Review — 27 Mar 2023
Rethinking Our World: An Invitation to Rescue Our Future by Maja Göpel (trans. David Shaw)
Humankind is in the midst of environmental and social crisis. Business as usual is not an option. Dr Maya Göpel is a political economist who is motivated to impel her…
Blog post — 16 Nov 2022
2022 Sustainability favourites
Bookseller and environmental advocate Kara Nicholson takes us through her top picks from this year that focus on the environment and living sustainably.
The Climate Book created by Greta Thunberg
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Review — 31 Aug 2022
Humanity’s Moment: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope by Joëlle Gergis
If there is only one nonfiction book you read this year, it really should be this one. Its author, Joëlle Gergis, is one of Australia’s leading climate scientists and she…
Review — 28 Jun 2022
Holy Woman: A Divine Adventure by Louise Omer
Louise Omer was not born into a religious family. Like many teenagers, she began to feel like an outsider during adolescence, rejected by friends and her twin brother, Ben, who…
Review — 1 May 2022
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight
In 2019 writer and journalist Sam Knight wrote an article that appeared in The New Yorker. It was titled ‘The psychiatrist who believed people could tell the future’. Knight found…
Review — 28 Mar 2022
The Burnished Sun by Mirandi Riwoe
My introduction to the work of Mirandi Riwoe was through her much-praised literary novel Stone Sky Gold Mountain, a beautifully written reimagining of Australian colonial history set in the…
Review — 2 Mar 2022
Australiana by Yumna Kassab
This is Yumna Kassab’s second novel and, as the name suggests, it is a collection of stories and ideas from an assembly of characters that together represent a narrative of…
Review — 29 Mar 2020
Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
Although Stone Sky Gold Mountain is only Mirandi Riwoe’s second work of literary fiction (her first, Fish Girl, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize), she has also written three…
Review — 6 Sep 2021
My Friend Fox by Heidi Everett
Heidi Everett meets her friend the fox on a rainy, winter’s night in Melbourne. She has been walking for two weeks. The encounter is life-changing as the fox helps her…
