Nonfiction
The Great Multinational Tax Rort by Martin Feil
Having spent decades working for the Australian Taxation Office, the Customs department and in private accounting firms, Martin Feil has a true insider’s insight into the murky world of multinationals and their accounting practices. This book was written before the…
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
The latest book from Teju Cole is a collection of essays, put out over a number of years, from various magazines and loosely arranged into three categories: reading, seeing and travel. While it would be easy to find the essays…
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
My favourite childhood books were The Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton. It was wondrous to imagine the lives of trees being full of feelings, thoughts and relationships. I would trawl my neighbourhood in search of my own adventure trees…
Position Doubtful by Kim Mahood
Position Doubtful is an astonishing, sprawling memoir of place. Returning annually to the Tanami desert country in which she had lived as a child on a remote cattle station, Tanami Downs (though for her it is always Mongrel Downs), artist…
Rebellious Daughters edited by Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman
I firmly believe that short story collections are not meant to be read from front cover to back cover – they’re meant to be dipped in and out of at leisure; randomly flicked through until a particular title jumps out…
Sounds and Sweet Airs by Anna Beer
Every page of Anna Beer’s Sounds and Sweet Airs – a study of forgotten female composers – contains a tempting distraction. With each reference to a composition, I reach over to my phone or computer to find the music. Knowing…
Shrill by Lindy West
You might not be familiar with Lindy West’s name, but if you have even a passing familiarity with the internet you’re probably acquainted with her writing. Her eminently shareable columns deal with topics as diverse as body image, internet trolling…
A Long Time Coming by Melanie Joosten
My father’s former partner died a few years ago at the aged care home her 90-year-old cousin, Eric, and I had been forced to place her in. Whenever we’d visit her, Eric would invariably shudder and say that all those…
Error Australis by Ben Pobjie
Ben Pobjie told me recently that he wrote Error Australis simply to make people laugh. However, don’t mistake this very funny book about our quite dismal, ludicrous history for a simple collection of  riffs and anecdotes. Like all clever…
Love Wins by Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell
In June of last year, rainbow filters glittered over our Facebook profiles as a sweeping piece of federal legislation was enacted in the United States which then reverberated across that country and many other parts of the watching world: the…
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