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Discover new nonfiction books at Readings, with biography, memoir, essays and analysis.
Clive Hamilton, George Wilkenfeld
Living Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making Australia resilient to intensifying climate extremes.
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Raja Shehadeh
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as partners on the road to peace instead of genocide.
David Sedaris
David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.
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David Arrowsmith
A gripping account of the chaotic period of Colombian football where cartels dictated results and players and referees died for drug lords' sporting obsessions.
Cory Leadbeater
As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was kept confidential. Since the tumultuous days…
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Harvey Whitehouse
The ancient inheritance that made us who we are. The ancient inheritance that is now driving us to ruin.
Nemonte Nenquimo, Mitch Anderson
A memoir by an indigenous tribal leader in the Amazon, who fought Big Oil to preserve her tribe’s territories, and thousands of acres of pristine rainforest.
Roxanne de Bastion
A family story of survival, hope and music - for fans of The Pianist and The Cut Out Girl.
Alyssa Huynh
This is a book for anyone who believes that racism has no place in Australia’s future and is ready to take action.
Loretta Smith
Loretta Smith is renowned as the bestselling author of A Spanner in the Works, the biography of Alice Anderson, the 'garage girl'. Now in Corpus in Extremis, Loretta shares the…
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Nanako Hanada, Cat Anderson (trans.)
A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kind of…
Khin Myint
A powerful debut, from an extraordinary voice, gentle in the face of extremity
Baek Sehee, Anton Hur (trans.)
The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize–shortlisted Anton Hur
Nicola Tallis
The first fully comprehensive biography of the young Elizabeth I in over twenty years, drawing on a rich variety of primary sources from both Elizabeth herself and those closest to…
Nick Bryant
The Forever War tells the story of how America's political polarisation is 250 years in the making, and argues that the roots of its modern-day malaise are to be found…
Griffin Dunne
A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan.
Norman Ohler
A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of Blitzed.
Robin Niblett
An urgent and essential assessment of the global contest between the US and China, and how looking to history will help us to navigate it, from former Director of Chatham…
Josephine Quinn
The West, the story goes, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by…
Khalida Popal
A story of sisterhood and the fight for feminism in the age of the Taliban.
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Amorina Kingdon
A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes — from an…
Alana Valentine
Can marriage be an act of rebellion? This is the story of Wayside Chapel, a quiet revolution from a side street of Kings Cross, Sydney. ict.
Karen Yin
An adaptable guide for anyone who wants to communicate with compassion in a rapidly changing environment.
Simon Cleary
Four weeks, 344km and one inspiring river journey
Lesley Downer
A definitive new history of Japan, where ancient meets cutting-edge in unique and startling ways
Harrison Christian
Harrison Christian draws on fresh documents to examine the circumstances of Scott’s death, throwing suspicion on Edward Evans and other officers. Terra Nova delves into the lives of these remarkable…
Joëlle Gergis
What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia?
Dirk Van Hulle, Mark Nixon
A highly illustrated book, which reveals the mysteries of writing through examinations of words and ideas that were edited out of renowned novels, poems and plays.
Dr Paul E. Hardisty
A searing, candid and personal account from inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from the recent CEO of Australia's leading coral research institute (who also happens to…
Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, Michelle Arrow, Robert Reynolds
Personal Politics brings together, for the first time, the voices and campaigns of a diverse set of activists who employed ideas about gender and sexuality to remake modern Australia.
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Asne Seierstad, Sean Kinsella (trans.)
Award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad returns with The Afghans, a book to help us understand Afghanistan's past, present and future, told through the lives of three unforgettable people.
Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
Clive Hamilton and Myra Hamilton show that elite privilege is not a mere by-product of wealth but an organising principle for society as a whole. They explore the practices and…
Rhee Kun Hoo, Suphil Lee Park (trans.)
This comforting Korean bestseller offers guidance for attaining ordinary happiness at any age and shows us that life is a story worth reading until the very last page.
Rose Butler, Eve Vincent
Explore how people from different class backgrounds meet, live with and love one another.
Eamon Donnelly, Monique Le Grand
In the follow-up to Eamon Donnelly's sold-out, out-of-print first title from 2018, Volume II goes beyond the closed shopfronts and back to where it all began.
Ellen Atlanta
A generation defining expose of toxic beauty culture and the realities of coming of age online
Joseph E. Stiglitz
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom
Lara Briden
If you feel tired and hungry all the time - and can't lose weight - insulin resistance and metabolic inflexibility could be why.
Subhadra Das
Science historian Subhadra Das explores ten founding ideas of Western civilisation, uncovers their flaws and urges us to look at the world with fresh eyes
Gareth Harney
The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects: coins.
Christopher Harding
This various, rich and enjoyable book tells the story of the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encounters
Yaroslav Trofimov
The compelling account from the front lines of the war in Ukraine . . .
Tamsin Mather
Adventures in Volcanoland charts journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world's most important volcanoes
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
A remarkable insight into the real story of the seven Queen Cleopatras of Ancient Egypt
Paul Strathern
A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance…
Hugh Mackay
Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future
Lisa Kaltenegger
The world expert explains how we hunt new planets, then search them to find if we're alone in the universe
Marc Millon
A lively, page-turning history of Italy and its wines, from the Roman Empire to climate change.
