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Tag: Nonfiction

Review: Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl

A gripping and exhausting, funny and despairing, and completely compelling account of living with grief.

Australian, Grief, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction

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: Otherlands by Thomas Halliday

A safari through time with an urgent message about the future.

Dinosaurs, Fossils, nature, nature writing, Nonfiction, Palaeontology, science

Review: No Document by Anwen Crawford

An investigation into breaking down old ones and making new ones.

Activism, Australian, Memoir, Migration, Nonfiction, Protest, Refugees

Review: Good Indian Daughter by Ruhi Lee

Lee’s memoir is a complicated depiction of parents and parenting.

India, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Parenting

Review: Things I Don’t Want To Know by Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy concisely summarises what makes her own writing so compelling.

British, Female writers, Memoir, Nonfiction, South Africa, UK

Review: Fourteen by Shannon Malloy

A harrowing memoir of growing up gay in regional Australia.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer

Review: Under A White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

A gripping, frightening and weirdly hopeful look at the lengths we’ll have to go to to fix global problems.

Climate change, Environment, Extinction, nature, Nonfiction

Review: Flames Of Extinction by John Pickrell

A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.

Australian, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, Nonfiction

Review: Witness by Louise Milligan

A blistering indictment of the treatment of victims of sex crimes by the legal system.

Australian, Journalism, Legal System, Nonfiction, Sexual assault, Stella Prize

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