by NRB | 23 Nov 2021 | Non-fiction |
Bronwyn Adcock provides a searing insider’s account of the bushfire that terrorised the NSW South Coast during Black Summer, and warns that fires on this scale will happen again. It’s impossible not to be moved by Currowan, the debut book by award-winning journalist...
by NRB | 16 Nov 2021 | Non-fiction |
Henry Gee manages to convey 4.6 billion years of history and a planet’s sense of yearning in one slim volume. Douglas Adams wrote in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry...
by NRB | 11 Nov 2021 | Non-fiction |
Jay Parini’s memoir provides an insight into the famous South American author as the two of them tour the Scottish Highlands. It doesn’t matter if you have never read any of the work of the famous Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges, neither had Jay Parini when...
by NRB | 9 Nov 2021 | Non-fiction |
Stretching from France to the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Carol Major’s memoir is a meditation on family, grief and love. This memoir by Carol Major comprises three strands woven into one heartbreaking narrative of a woman and her daughter. Written as a...
by NRB | 4 Nov 2021 | Non-fiction |
Novelist Bohumil Hrabal’s memoir explores the roots of cruelty by examining the author’s relationship with his many cats. Published in Czech in 1986, novelist Bohumil Hrabal’s non-fiction work All My Cats is now available in English, translated by Paul...
by NRB | 2 Nov 2021 | Non-fiction |
Michelle Tom’s memoir weaves together the experience of being in an earthquake and the reverberations of family trauma. In 2011, Michelle Tom’s house was damaged by the deadly magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch that killed 185 people. In her debut memoir...
by NRB | 19 Oct 2021 | Non-fiction |
Dr Norman Swan investigates the evidence for common assumptions we make about what is and isn’t good for our health. Despite its 432 pages, a brief description of Swan’s book could be ‘a health compendium for busy people’. Part memoir, part handbook, it ranges...
by NRB | 14 Oct 2021 | Non-fiction |
Lucia Osborne Crowley explores how trauma affects our bodies, recounting her own experiences and those of others. ‘Despite our best efforts,’ writes Lucia Osborne-Crowley, ‘the body finds a way to express what the mind cannot.’ Through a combination of memoir,...
by NRB | 7 Oct 2021 | Non-fiction |
In Rogue Forces journalist Mark Willacy documents the disturbing truth about war crimes committed by Australia’s SAS forces in Afghanistan. Lord Acton is the one who said ‘power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ He added, ‘Great men are...
by NRB | 23 Sep 2021 | Non-fiction |
In this poignant memoir Barry Nicholls melds family and personal history with reflections on cricket and mental health. According to Beyond Blue, men in Australia are known for ‘bottling things up’, which increases the risk of depression or anxiety being untreated –...
by NRB | 7 Sep 2021 | Non-fiction |
AC Grayling ranges across multiple disciplines as he presents the case for a broader understanding of the world. At this year’s Sydney Writers Festival, renowned philosopher and author AC Grayling implored the audience to become multi-literate, that is to read widely...
by NRB | 31 Aug 2021 | Non-fiction |
David Lindenmayer’s homage to the beauty of the Victorian Central Highlands and Meg Lowman’s memoir of a career spent among the treetops both explore the importance of our forests. These two books are very different but the purpose of both is the same: to...
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