Humanity's Moment : A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope
By: Joëlle Gergis
4.24
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
When climate scientist Joëlle Gergis set to work on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on …
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1. Foreign Soil
By: Maxine Beneba Clarke
3.79
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voic… read more
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2. Leaving the Atocha Station
By: Ben Lerner , Alva Dahl
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship i… read more
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3. Dark Emu
By: Bruce Pascoe
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more
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4. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more
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5. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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- nonfiction
6. All That's Left Unsaid
By: Tracey Lien
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more
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"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
7. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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8. Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more
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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
9. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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10. Days of Innocence and Wonder
By: Lucy Treloar
3.71
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
When someone is taken away, what is left behind? All her life, Till has lived in the shadow of t… read more
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11. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
12. Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific fe… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- environment
"[A mission-oriented economy] means asking what kind of markets we want, rather than what problem in the market needs to be fixed."-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
"The ideas in this book have been inspired by many. But it is probably significant that the previous chapter, looking at new theory, cites so many women scholars who have put life at the centre of the…"-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
13. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
By: Julia Baird
3.78
Format: 320 pages, ebook
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"McCarthy insists if we delight in nature and find joy there, we will not so carelessly plunder, neglect and destroy it. He calls it 'defence through joy'."-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"Seek awe and nature daily... show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately."-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminisci…"-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings…"-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
14. How We Love: Notes on a Life
By: Clementine Ford
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author … read more
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15. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
By: Grace Tame
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more
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"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
16. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
By: Robert Waldinger
4.16
Format: 352 pages, ebook
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more
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- science
17. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage
By: Clementine Ford
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia
By: Victor Steffensen
4.47
Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, Fire Country i… read more
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- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
19. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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- nonfiction
- climate change
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"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
20. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech
By: Julia Gillard
4.28
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more
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- nonfiction
21. The Visitors
By: Jane Harrison
3.86
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stan… read more
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22. Search History
By: Amy Taylor
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more
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23. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need
By: Thomas Mayo
4.52
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more
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24. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
By: George Monbiot
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
25. Aphrodite's Breath
By: Susan Johnson
4.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly… read more
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26. The Most Important Job in the World
By: Gina Rushton
4.10
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Should we become parents? It's a question that forces us to reckon with what we love and fear most … read more
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27. Humanity's Moment : A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope
By: Joëlle Gergis
4.24
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
When climate scientist Joëlle Gergis set to work on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on … read more
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- climate change
- environment
- science
28. Raised by Wolves
By: Jess Ho
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunct… read more
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29. Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse
By: Jem Bendell
4.10
Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition
“This is a prophetic book” Satish Kumar, founder, Schumacher College The collapse of modern societ… read more
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- climate change
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30. The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening
By: Hugh Mackay
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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31. Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays on Uncertainty
By: Sarah Firth
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A delicious mix of daily life, science, philosophy, pop culture, daydreams and irreverent humour, E… read more
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