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.

Review: Flames Of Extinction by John Pickrell

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

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

Toxic is a polemic against Tasmania’s farmed salmon industry.

Eating With My Mouth open is an investigation of food, body and memory, and all the things they can mean.

A virtuosic collection of essays about the meanings we invest in nature and animals.

Germaine Greer writes that restoring the land is her proudest achievement.

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

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

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