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Helen Garner
Garner's first new work in a decade is a tender portrayal of the relationship between grandmother and grandson, and of that moment on the cusp of adulthood when a boy…
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Lauren Samuelsson
Meticulously researched and beautifully presented, A Matter of Taste takes you on an entertaining, nostalgic and insightful culinary journey through Australian food, culture and history.
Tristan Clark
With appeal to more than just punk history obsessives, Orstralia offers an unprecedented snapshot of an underacknowledged segment of Australian life and history.
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Rick Emerson
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud.
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Kirsten Krauth (ed.), Angela Savage (ed.)
This stunning follow-up to Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined and Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined features Alice Pung, Ellen Van Neerven and Christos Tsiolkas, and is…
Gillian Anderson
What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you want, when you are anonymous?
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Jessica Friedmann
A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world.
Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products
Jamie Tahsin, Matt Shea
The behind-the-scenes story of a four-year investigation into Andrew Tate, exploring how a failed reality TV star turned accused organised criminal managed to become one of the most famous influencers…
Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
Rising star New York Times investigative tech reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk's unprecedented hostile takeover…
Natasha Lunn
The top 10 Sunday Times bestseller - a celebration of love in all its forms
Jia Tolentino
A must-read for anyone interested in the way we live and think today.
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Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Persuasive and engaging, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman is a timely and necessary argument for the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives in the teachings and practices that impact on Australia’s…
Robin DiAngelo
Explores counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequality.
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Samantha Irby
More wickedly funny essays from the author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Lucie Morris-Marr
The dramatic story of the trial of ‘God’s treasurer’ for child sex abuse, and the conviction that sent ripples around the world.
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Tim Watts
A topical and provocative exploration of Australian identity by Federal MP and author Tim Watts.
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Annabel Crabb
In this Quarterly Essay, Annabel Crabb deploys political observation, workplace research and her characteristic humour and intelligence to argue that gender equity cannot be achieved until men are as…
Samia Khatun
An evocative and gracefully written reflection on cultural encounters between Aboriginals and Indians in the Outback, from the nineteenth century.
Rebekah Robertson
Rebekah Robertson’s extraordinary personal story of raising her transgender child, Georgie Stone, who has become a voice not just for other transgender kids - but for an emerging generation.
Jane Gilmore
Violence and the representation of women in the media.
Ruby Hamad
White Tears/Brown Scars blows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood.
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Paul Mason
Has capitalism stripped us of our common humanity? In an age of fragmented identities and authoritarianism, award-winning journalist Paul Mason calls for a new humanism.
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Robert Eaglestone
Despite centuries of arguments, no one can agree on what literature is, or how to study it. But, argues Eaglestone, it is precisely the open-ended nature of literature that makes…
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Oliver Sacks
A remarkable celebration of Sacks’s varied interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose.
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Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Inspiring, perceptive and full of moving stories, Stop Being Reasonable is an illuminating exploration of the place where philosophy and real life meet.
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Mary Laura Philpott
Spot-on observations about domestic, professional, and creative life, taking on the conflicting pressures of modern womanhood with humour and thoughtful contemplation, from an author who is connected to highly influential…
Simon May
An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressions
Tressie McMillan Cottom
In these eight … explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom–award-winning professor and … author of Lower Ed–embraces her … role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom…
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Natalia Ginzburg
An extraordinary collection of 11 essays by Natalia Ginzburg, one of the most important Italian writers of the twentienth century. Originally published in the 1960s, Ginzburg’s wisdom and poetically resonant…
Sloane Crosley
A brand-new collection of essays filled with hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More…
Jenny Odell
Jaron Lanier meets John Muir in Jenny Odell’s How to do Nothing, an action plan for political resistance to the attention economy.
Marie Darrieussecq
A renowned French author asks fundamental questions about motherhood, gender roles and identity. A must read for fans of Rachel Cusk, Sheila Heti, Jenny Offill and Maggie Nelson
Choice Words: A Collection of Writing About Abortion is a cri de coeur, a passionate appeal, from writers, thinkers, musicians, actors, comedians, activists and political staffers, offering personal stories of…
Julienne Van Loon
A memoir combined with rigorous thinking and analysis, a book that prompts insightful questions about how we live. One of the age-old questions of philosophy is what does it mean…
Sam George-Allen
An exploration of the work women do together.
Gabrielle Chan
A big story from a small town.
Telling the story of Australia as it is today, Gabrielle Chan has gone hyper-local. In Rusted Off, she looks to her own rural…
Rutger Bregman
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, with questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party of the right or left is…
Jill Stark
Jill Stark was living the dream. She had a coveted job as a senior journalist, she was dating a sports star, and her first book had just become a bestseller…
Fiona Wright
The follow-up to Fiona Wright’s essay collection Small Acts of Disappearance - winner of the Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction, shortlisted for the Stella…
Alice Bolin
A collection of essays that expertly blends the personal and political in an exploration of American culture through the lens of our national obsession with stories about dead women.
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Rebecca Solnit
This updated edition confirms Solnit’s seminal work as a timeless classic on politics and change
Ta-Nehisi Coates
From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world was a black man. Obama’s presidency was a watershed moment in American history. In those eight years, the political conversation around race…
Olivia Laing
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began…
George Monbiot
How many of us sometimes feel that we are scratching at the walls of this life, seeking to find our way into a wider space beyond? That our mild, polite…
Michael Pollan
The startling truth behind the food we consume in the twenty-first century
Malcolm Gladwell
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay far too much…
