My Accidental Career by Brenda Niall
Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning by Sarah Krasnostein
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick
First Astronomers by Duane Hamacher
When We Fall by Aoife Clifford
Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl
Bob Hawke by Troy Bramston
Our best-seller from the past week is the biography of one of Australia’s most renowned biographers, Brenda Niall. Our programming and events manager Chris Gordon writes of the work: ‘This is not a story of struggle, but rather a sensitive recall of a writing life from a woman who was there, successfully and unapologetically, and lived to tell the tale.’ Read her full review here.
Other books making an appearance on our bestseller list this week include a moving memoir of loss and reinvention, the latest quarterly essay exploring the mental health crisis, and a recently back-in-stock best seller on the systemic nature of our attention deficit and what, if anything, can an individual do to combat a loss of focus.
