Nonfiction
See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
Sometimes you begin reading a book and everything else you need to do or think about instantly recedes. See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill is one such book. Hill is a Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist who has…
Bowraville by Dan Box
Twenty-nine years ago in the tiny, rural NSW town of Bowraville, three Aboriginal children were killed within six months of each other: teenagers Colleen Walker-Craig and Clinton Speedy-Duroux, and four-year-old Evelyn Greenup. One white man was connected to all three…
A Wunch of Bankers by Daniel Ziffer
You can thank the Trump administration for the rebirth and soaring popularity of the behind-the-scenes political hatchet job. From Bob Woodward’s artful Fear to Michael Wolff’s tawdry Fire and Fury, the public can’t get enough of watching the guilty…
Mirka Mora: A Life Making Art by Sabine Cotte
I adore Mirka Mora’s virtuosity and this art book is devised for those that love her and her glorious art practice. Told with grace and obvious affection, Sabine Cotte’s book is a tribute to Mora’s contribution to Melbourne, to the…
Superior: The return of race science by Angela Saini
Superior is science journalist Angela Saini’s exploration of the rise, slight fall and second coming of ‘race science’. It’s the perfect antidote to the whirlpool of pseudoscience currently engulfing mainstream global politics.
Saini travels the world, talking to a range…
Australia Day by Stan Grant
Stan Grant has an issue with how we are responding to Australia Day. In his new book Australia Day, he argues that not all Australians are racist. Grant believes that the present media coverage of the issues around Australia…
Women's Work by Megan K. Stack
Megan K. Stack has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. She was a war correspondent for the Los Angeles Times; she made a career of immersing herself in cultures and…
Growing Up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Ahmed Yussuf & Magan Magan
In her introduction to Growing Up African in Australia, Maxine Beneba Clarke sets the scene for an anthology of great specificity. As she explains, this is an anthology that ‘would be an African diaspora anthology’, an anthology that acknowledges…
City of Trees by Sophie Cunningham
Sophie Cunningham has written a collection of travel writing that grapples with the destructive nature of tourism. Or is it nature writing that never forgets its place within the machine that threatens the last vestiges of ‘nature’? This ability to…
Witches: What Women Do Together by Sam George-Allen
Witches can be many things, but one thing is for sure: they are women of fearsome power. They are also women who have a tradition of helping other women. Witches are women on the margins, and in our patriarchal society…
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