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Tag: Nonfiction

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

The best books I’ve read 2020

The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.

Argentina, Australian, Classics, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Nonfiction, Novel

Review: Living With The Anthropocene (edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell)

The writers in this collection grapple with what it means to be “planetary” beings: how our individual actions can seem so small, but have global consequences.

Anthology, Anthropocene, Australian, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, Nonfiction

Review: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

Entangled Life is a mind-expanding trip into the world of fungi, and a model for nature and science writing.

biology, ecology, Environment, Fungi, Mushrooms, mycology, nature, Nonfiction, science

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

Review: Notes From An Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell

Mark O’Connell is a very entertaining, self-effacing and thoughtful companion to the end of the world.

Apocalypse, Climate change, Contemporary, Environment, Nonfiction

Review: Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs

Fathoms is a book of philosophy and science that might shock us out of our lethargy towards nature.

Environment, Nonfiction

Review: See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill

See What You Made Me Do goes beyond headlines to uncover the horrifying scale of domestic abuse in Australia.

Australian, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

Review: Flight Lines by Andrew Darby

Flight Lines is one of the most beautiful and moving books about nature I have read in a while.

Conservation, Environment, Nonfiction

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