Best non-fiction books of 2016

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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich (trans.)

In this magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate reinvents a singular, polyphonic literary form, bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses…

$34.99

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Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane

Elspeth Muir

In 2009 Elspeth Muir’s youngest brother finished his last university exam and went out with some mates to get drunk. Later that night he wandered to the Story Bridge. He…

$29.99

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Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories

Kim Mahood

Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully…

$32.99

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The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson’s _The Argonauts _is a genre-bending memoir, a work of ‘autotheory’ offering fresh…

$19.99

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Everywhere I Look

Helen Garner

Garner’s essays from the past fifteen years range freely across personal and cultural subjects, with characteristic insight and skilful observation.

$23.99

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Talking to My Country

Stan Grant

An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture and national identity by one of Australia’s leading journalists.

$27.99

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The Boy Behind the Curtain

Tim Winton

‘Being a copper’s son, I’ve always got one eye out for trouble. I can’t help it. But I don’t go looking for it anymore.’

In Tim Winton’s fiction, chaos shapes…

$24.99

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The Hate Race

Maxine Beneba Clarke

‘Maxine Beneba Clarke is a powerful and fearless storyteller…Clarke is the read deal, and will, if we’re lucky, be an essential voice in world literature for years to come’ -…

$22.99

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