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...
by NRB | 10 Aug 2021 | Non-fiction |
Michael Holding assembles a stellar array of champions to discuss their experiences of racism, Black achievements on and off the field, and finding a way forward. Michael Holding was a champion fast bowler and a member of the all-conquering West Indies cricket team...
by NRB | 5 Aug 2021 | Non-fiction |
A reclusive scientist and a wild fox form an unusual bond in Catherine Raven’s memoir. I needed to be thinking of how my relationship with the fox began and why we rendezvoused every day at 4.15 p.m. We were meeting, after all, under odd and uncomfortable...
by NRB | 3 Aug 2021 | Non-fiction |
Part memoir, part urgent appeal, Claire Dunn’s new book explores how our urban lives can become more intimate with nature. For many of us, the world of lockdown has been about life inside four walls: comfy clothes, home schooling and baking experiments under the...
by NRB | 6 Jul 2021 | Non-fiction |
Michael Warner doesn’t hold back in this examination of the scandals that have beset the AFL over the past two decades. In professional sport teams compete not only with each other on the field, but also off the field for fans, sponsors and players. Despite this...
by NRB | 29 Jun 2021 | Non-fiction |
Save Our Sons and Radicals remind us that the anti-war protesters of the 1960s and 70s were many and varied, and so too were their campaigns. These two books canvass the decade 1965-75, during which the Vietnam War dominated political life in Australia. We had...
by NRB | 24 Jun 2021 | Non-fiction |
Edmund Richardson recounts the hazardous life of ‘one of the greatest archaeologists of the age’. Nineteenth-century archaeologist James Lewis (alias Charles Masson), who sought traces of Alexander the Great in Afghanistan, was clearly an excellent storyteller, and in...
by NRB | 18 May 2021 | Non-fiction |
Laura Bates has produced a confronting examination of extreme misogyny in Men Who Hate Women. Best known for creating the Everyday Sexism Project, in Men Who Hate Women Laura Bates has produced a book that is more polemic than a considered work of traditional...
by NRB | 13 May 2021 | Non-fiction |
Ruth Bader Ginsberg was a trailblazer in the law in the US. This collection of speeches and key cases gives an insight into her work. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a justice of the Supreme Court of America from 1993 until her death in September 2020. In October 2019, the...