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Tag: History

Review: The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh

A powerful retelling of the last 500 years of history – and where we go next.

Climate change, Colonialism, Environment, History, India, Indonesia, Nonfiction

Review: The Dawn Of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

A big history of people that demolishes the myth of progress.

Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Nonfiction, Politics

Five gay things I learned from The Boy In The Dress

A story of a murder in the 1940s becomes a much bigger, and queerer, tale of Australia’s history.

Australian, Crime, History, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer, True crime, World War II

Review: Sea People by Christina Thompson

A riveting and passionate tale of intellectual inquiry into the origins of Polynesia.

History, Nonfiction, Pacific Ocean, Polynesia

Review: Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend

The Fifth Sun is a fascinating, scholarly and moving portrayal of a people surviving colonisation.

Aztecs, History, Mexico, Nonfiction

Review: Feasting Wild by Gina Rae La Cerva

A moving and compelling investigation into wild food and the practices of hunting and gathering, and by extension, humanity’s whole relationship to nature.

Colonialism, Conservation, Environment, History, Indigenous history, Nonfiction

Review: Truganini by Cassandra Pybus

In Truganini, historian Cassandra Pybus attempts to “release” a woman from colonial myth-making. It is a shattering book.

Australian, Biography, Colonialism, Environment, History, Indigenous history, Nonfiction, Tasmania

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This collection of essays explores the uncertainty of living in a time where our impact on the environment has become entangled in all our experiences of nature.
Ronnie Scott’s first novel, The Adversary, is one of my favourite reads of the past couple of years. His new book, Shirley, cements him as one of my favourite writers.
18-year-old Colin, seeking adventure and escape from his quaint village life in 1970s Surrey, stumbles on his birthday over the ‘tasty’ older biker Ray in the woodlands of Box Hill in this taught, menacing and poignant novel.
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