Some essays in this collection plunged me into thought. Some caused me to weep. Some brought tears of laughter. Some essays won me over by the power of their imagination. Some by their analytic clarity. Some by their excruciating honesty. Some by the pain of things past or present faced without flinching.‘ - Robert Manne In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing. Tim Winton reflects on the impact of landscape on the Australian character; Helen Garner remembers her mother with a raw and stirring poignancy; Christos Tsiolkas wonders how the Left forgot their origins; Tim Flannery traces the history of the Great Barrier Reef and fears its destruction. With essays traversing madness, liberty under the rule of Tony Abbott, the enslaving of horses and the legacy of Doris Lessing, this sharp collection offers lucid insight, shrewd understanding and heartbreaking empathy. Moreno Giovannoni aEUROc Rozanna Lilley aEUROc Caroline Baum aEUROc Guy Rundle aEUROc Peter Conrad aEUROc Jessie Cole aEUROc Karen Hitchcock aEUROc Antonia Hayes aEUROc Luke Ryan aEUROc Helen Garner aEUROc Sybille Smith aEUROc Christian Ryan aEUROc Dennis Glover aEUROc Don Watson aEUROc Rachel Nolan aEUROc David Marr aEUROc J.M. Coetzee aEUROc Nicolas Rothwell aEUROc David Malouf aEUROc Clive James aEUROc Carrie Tiffany aEUROc Robyn Davidson aEUROc Neil Murray aEUROc Noel Pearson aEUROc Christos Tsiolkas aEUROc Luke Mogelson aEUROc Tim Flannery aEUROc Tim Winton