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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Discover new nonfiction books at Readings, with biography, memoir, essays and analysis.
Alan Kohler
What caused Australia's housing crisis – and how we might fix it
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The Conversation, Justin Bergman (ed.)
This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world.
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Anna Ferguson
Harness the power of your vagus nerve to reduce stress, overcome anxiety and release past trauma.
Feeling anxious and disconnected are signs of a nervous system that's out of balance…
Stein Ringen
An epic new history of Scandinavia, from the Viking Age to the present day
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Yascha Mounk
The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world.
Steven Bartlett
This is not a book about business strategy. Strategy changes like the seasons. This is a book about something much more permanent.
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Michele Lamont
From internationally renowned sociologist Michele Lamont, a game-changing argument about what we value and why
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Islam Issa
An original, authoritative and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day
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Richard Flanagan
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction…
Caroline Elkins
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian - a searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.
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Peter Christoff
Offers a comprehensive assessment of Australia's Black Summer fires. Contributors analyse the event from many vantage points and disciplines - historical, climate scientific, ecological, economic, and political, and assess its…
Jill Lepore
A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.
Ed Winters
Following on from the bestselling This Is Vegan Propaganda, this next book by the incredible vegan activist, educator and influencer, Ed Winters helps vegans effortlessly navigate one of the…
Andrew Pettegree
In The Book at War, acclaimed historian Andrew Pettegree traces the surprising ways in which written culture
Charlie Porter
An anarchic, intimate, lushly illustrated look at the clothes and lives of the Bloomsbury Group
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Kerri Andrews (ed.)
The first anthology of women's writing about walking, edited by Wanderers author Kerri Andrews.
Raimond Gaita, Scott Stephens (ed.)
The collected writings of Raimond Gaita.
Shannah Kennedy, Colleen Callander
Do you want a masterplan for success? Are you ready to embrace the extraordinary life you truly deserve?
The incredible painting collection of the State Library of New South Wales is documented for the first time.
Mary Beard
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by 'the world's most famous classicist' (Guardian)
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Brett Mason
The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president.
Sandy Weir
Classic mid-century, Art Deco, migrant and beautifully unique homes from across the country, snapped by viral social media account, Other People's Homes. For fans of The Block, The Castle…
Benjamin Yen-Yi Fong
A look at drugs through the lens of societal change and a look at social change through the lens of drugs. Drugs are ubiquitous in the past and present of…
Merlin Sheldrake
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now reinvented as a spectular visual journey through the wondrous and alien world of fungi
Ben Mezrich
Gripping and darkly comic, Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time and the company that owns our world's…
Quentin Beresford
Award-winning author Quentin Beresford takes us inside corporate Australia's highest-profile scandals and the factors that drive them
Dave Witty
A stunning meditation on the remarkable insights that Australia's trees can offer into our past
Stephen Fry, Jesús Sotés (illus)
The myths we all love from Stephen Fry's bestselling Mythos now return in a brand new and achingly beautiful illustrated edition
Wolfram Eilenberger
An enthralling intellectual adventure, starring the four women who created new ways of thinking from the ruins of totalitarianism and war, by the acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians
Katie Holten
Inspired by forests, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees is a gorgeously illustrated collection, a love letter to the wonder of trees - and how they make our…
Mary Haverstick
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of…
Diarmuid Hester
How do places make us, and how do we make them?
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Julia Baird
From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities: grace.
Philip Gold
An eye-opening exploration of the latest scientific discoveries about depressive illness, from one of the leading researchers in the field
Jeff Horwitz
The inside story of a band of hackers who were hired to fix Facebook - and came to question whether it was beyond saving.
Gideon Haigh
A great cricket series, as reported by a great cricket writer.
Goalhanger Podcasts, Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town.
Mark Davidson (ed.), Parker Fishel (ed.)
Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine is an unprecedented glimpse into the creative life of one of America's most groundbreaking, influential and enduring artists.
Peter FitzSimons
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli, the extraordinary story of the Australian Light Horse, their defining World War I battle: the iconic cavalry charge at Beersheba in October…
Alecia Simmonds
Award-winning author Alecia Simmonds uncovers a hidden history of love and heartbreak in the archives of law
Clementine Ford
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued.
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Carlo Rovelli
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Darryl Jones
Interested in birds but don’t know where to start? Overwhelmed by the bird guides? Then this is the book for you!
Grantlee Kieza
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map
Slavoj Zizek
We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom.
Ibram X. Kendi
From the author of the bestselling international phenomenon How To Be an Antiracist, a ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of the future
Helen Hayward
When Helen Hayward had her two children in London, 25 years ago, she found looking after them easy. Loving and looking after her kids was straightforward. However loving and looking…
Roxane Gay
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger comes a stunning retrospective of essays and writings from the last decade covering politics, race and identity, feminism…
