Nonfiction
Papa Goose by Michael Quetting
In 2017, various institutes across Germany and Russia joined teams to form the International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space, better known as ICARUS. The idea was to use satellites to track population levels of endangered species, changes in climate…
Diving For Seahorses by Hilde Østby & Ylva Østby
The enticing introduction to Diving for Seahorses poses the question, if our cells constantly turn over, what are we? Our physical matter being temporary, maybe ‘we are our memories’. Diving into memory can be a risky business, at once opening…
The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright
This is the second non-fiction book from acclaimed Australian writer Fiona Wright. In 13 essays, she delves into the spaces we inhabit – our bodies and our homes – and explores what it means when these shelters become destabilised.
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
In the beginning of the twenty-first century all we can seem to see is a world of rapid change and turmoil, with the rise of a destructive right-wing nationalism, and technology outpacing our ability to understand it. At the end…
The Honey Factory by Jürgen Tautz & Diedrich Steen
If there was such a thing as Bee School or, more accurately, Beekeepers’ School, The Honey Factory by Jürgen Tautz & Diedrich Steen would surely be the definitive text. It’s a comprehensive look into bee colonies – the hive structure…
The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World by Patrick Nunn
Alexis Wright’s Tracker and Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu are two recent publications to challenge the colonialist nature of Western history and science. Both have rightfully become bestselling and award-winning titles. Patrick Nunn is a professor of geography with a particular…
The Rapids by Sam Twyford-Moore
Sam Twyford-Moore’s The Rapids examines mania and bipolar disorder in art and popular culture. A series of interlinked essays peppered with references to film, literature, music and television, the book – Twyford-Moore’s first – looks at just how much manic-depressive…
Trace: Who Killed Maria James? by Rachael Brown
At number 736 High Street Thornbury on 17 June 1980, Maria James was stabbed sixty-eight times in a frenzied attack at the back of the bookshop she owned and lived in. Fast forward thirty-eight years and the case has still…
The House of Islam by Ed Husain
Ed Husain has taken on the mammoth task of writing a comprehensive history of Islam and its people for a Western audience. The House of Islam successfully achieves this, providing a necessary foundational overview of the historical, cultural and geopolitical…
Waiting for Elijah by Kate Wild
Just before 2pm on 2 June 2009, in the NSW country town of Armidale, Senior Constable Andrew Rich fatally shot 24-year-old Elijah Holcombe. Elijah had been experiencing increasing periods of paranoid delusion leading up to this incident and was especially…
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