The Fifth Sun is a fascinating, scholarly and moving portrayal of a people surviving colonisation.
Tag: Nonfiction
The best books I’ve read 2020
The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.
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.
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.
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.
Review: Truganini by Cassandra Pybus
In Truganini, historian Cassandra Pybus attempts to “release” a woman from colonial myth-making. It is a shattering book.
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.
Review: Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs
Fathoms is a book of philosophy and science that might shock us out of our lethargy towards nature.
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.
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.
