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Discover new nonfiction books at Readings, with biography, memoir, essays and analysis.
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…
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Hugh Mackay
Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future
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Lisa Kaltenegger
The world expert explains how we hunt new planets, then search them to find if we're alone in the universe
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Marc Millon
A lively, page-turning history of Italy and its wines, from the Roman Empire to climate change.
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Jake Adelstein
A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime expose, and memoir.
Yuan Yang
This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures.
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Rahul Jandial
Uncover the truth of your dreaming brain with Sunday Times bestselling neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial
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Richard Sennett
An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker
Danny Wallace
The million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me immerses himself in the contagious, dangerous world of disinformation, everyday lies, trolls, conspiracy theories and those trying to fight back.
Johann Hari
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it - sharing his personal experience on…
Satyajit Das
Thirty years ago, two trips to iconic destinations, Africa and the Antarctic, profoundly changed Satyajit Das’s life. Ecotourism — watching wildlife in nature — became his gravitational centre. Wild Quests…
Anthony Grafton
A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the intellectual, social and cultural world of Renaissance Europe
Martin Wikelski
For readers of An Immense World, this thrilling book unveils a new scientific technology that tracks animal movements from space and ‘could fundamentally reshape the way we understand the…
Christopher Tyerman
A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders
Brigitta Olubas (ed.), Susan Wyndham (ed.)
Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world.
Jeff Sparrow, Sam Wallman
This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better.
Dr. Michihiko Hachiya
The Doctor of Hiroshima is a unique and deeply moving human story of survival about a small, committed band of hospital staff in the face of unthinkable destruction and loss.
David E. Sanger
A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries — Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia — based on deep reporting.
Steven Faux
The definitive guide to Long Covid, by internationally renowned rehabilitation specialist and cofounder of one of Australia's first Long Covid clinics.
Ed Zwick
“I’ll be dropping a few names,” Ed Zwick confesses in the introduction to his book. “Over the years I have worked with self-proclaimed masters-of-the-universe, unheralded geniuses, hacks, sociopaths, savants, and…
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Ziggy Ramo
A groundbreaking, provocative call-to-arms by acclaimed Wik artist Ziggy Ramo, Human? invites readers to confront this nation's biggest lie.
Ian Nathan
The Legend of Mad Max is the ultimate guide to the high octane post-apocalyptic film series, directed by visionary filmmaker George Miller.
Cassandra Pybus
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history.
Cher Tan
Peripathetic is an essay collection exploring globalised identities in flux.
Verity Harding
A humanist manifesto for the age of AI.
Tony Birch
An illuminating essay on the bestselling Noongar writer and author of the Miles Franklin Award-winning novels Benang and That Deadman Dance
Peter Winneke
What's your legacy? How much is enough? How do we get to more and better giving?
Maggie Nelson
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists
Samantha Faulkner (ed.)
A journey through Torres Strait Islander culture and identity, past and present
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Geoffrey Robertson QC
There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict…
Zeinab Badawi
Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African perspective, for fans of William Dalrymple, David…
Daniel Susskind
A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink it
Jonathan Clements
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle - and the renewed threat of invasion by China.
Victor Serge
This classic manual on repression by revolutionary activist Victor Serge offers fascinating anecdotes about the tactics of police provocateurs and an analysis of the documents of the tsarist secret police…
James Bradley
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world.
Noah Angell
What if the British Museum isn't a carefully ordered cross section of history but is in instead a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot - swarming with volatile and errant…
Tom Gilling
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun.
Guy de la Bedoyere
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world
Michael Taylor
From fossil-hunting to the end of faith- a gripping narrative history of the seventy-five-year culture war that transformed how we think about the universe and our place in it
David Herszenhorn
The Dissident is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir…
Ernest Scheyder
The world is moving towards replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. But building electric vehicles, solar panels, and millions of other devices requires digging more mines. Critical minerals are vital…
Chip Colwell
The fascinating tale of humankind’s journey from owning nothing to being owned - by our stuff. Why, when and how did our needs become world-destroying addictions?
Jonathan Haidt
An urgent and insightful investigation into the collapse in youth mental health, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author
Morgan Housel
Award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life's most important…
Adriana Barton
In this captivating blend of science and memoir, a health journalist and former cellist explores music as a source of health, resilience, connection and joy.
Annie Jacobsen
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed.
Peter Englund
November 1942 is an intimate history of the pivotal phase of World War Two.
Steven Gaines, Peter Brown
All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end.
