Nonfiction
The Life of I by Anne Manne
Anne Manne’s provocative and unsettling account of how and why narcissism develops in individuals and manifests in society draws heavily on the findings of international psychologists. Their findings echo her own belief that consumer capitalism has changed childrearing patterns and…
Where Song Began by Tim Low
Australia is renowned for its cuddly marsupials, but did you know that its birds are even more unique and evolutionarily significant? Esteemed Australian biologist Tim Low tells the incredible story of the origins of global bird life, a narrative about…
Last Bets: A true story of gambling, morality and the law by Michaela McGuire
Like Michaela McGuire, I’ve always deeply disliked casinos. When I was 18 years old I lasted five weeks serving rum and cokes to blackjack tables at Melbourne’s Crown casino. It was the summer after high school, I was broke and…
Funemployed by Justin Heazlewood
What do you do? I’m a dancer. Wow! Your life must be so fun!
Almost every artist has faced a conversation similar to this one. There is a great resistance among ‘non-artists’ to acknowledge the technicalities of an artist’s life…
The Skeleton Cupboard by Tanya Byron
Clinical psychologist Tanya Byron is well known as a columnist, television personality and adviser on mental health issues in the UK. While she has been a psychologist for over 20 years, The Skeleton Cupboard focuses on her post-graduate training and…
City of Lies by Ramita Navai
Sweeping aside your preconceptions of a city can be challenging, but Ramita Navai invites readers to do just that – if we didn’t expect to find porn, plastic surgery and meth addicts in smog-choked Tehran, the British–Iranian journalist causes us…
Capital by Rana Dasgupta
The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama by Julie Szego
In 2008, a young Somali man was convicted of the rape of a 48-year-old woman at a Doncaster nightclub. The woman had been found unconscious in a locked toilet cubicle with her pants down: she had no recollection of the…
The Undesirables by Mark Isaacs
While visiting the regional processing centre at Nauru, then Minister for Immigration Chris Bowen was overheard referring to asylum seekers as ‘the undesirables’. The hearts of the staff sank. Such telling moments propel Mark Isaacs’s eyewitness account of life at…
Geek Sublime by Vikram Chandra
For most of us, computers and the programs that run on them are tools, designed to make our lives and work easier. But for the developers who build this software, the lines of code that underpin what we see on…
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