Nonfiction
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…
Australian Art: A History by Sasha Grishin
This is an important and good-looking contribution to the understanding of Australian art. Covering ground from the earliest rock art to the twenty-first century, Sasha Grishin presents an engaging and comprehensive narrative that sheds light on our cultural history, attitudes…
I’d Eat That!: Simple Ways to be a Better Cook by Callum Hann
Callum Hann is that 20-year old sweetheart who came second in the second series of Masterchef and I’d Eat That! is his second cookbook, which he was motivated to write after watching his friends’ appalling eating habits. I don’t know…
My Promised Land by Ari Shavit
My Promised Land is a profoundly inspiring and challenging book. It is an intensely personal impression of a country, for which the writer has intense admiration and affection but also grave misgivings. Israel was founded on a paradox. The ideals…
The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead
I’ve read Middlemarch twice, once as a teenager and once as an adult. Although I loved it the first time, it was the second reading that convinced me this was to be my favourite novel. Rebecca Mead reads Middlemarch every…
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