Elegiac in tone, Jessica Kirkness’s "The House with All the Lights On" is a touching family memoir in which language and technology enable connections with deaf grandparents.... Read More

In Emma Batchelor’s semiautobiographical novel "Now That I See You", a thirty-year-old woman processes her reactions after her partner tells her they are transgender. When her... Read More

Grace Karskens’s engrossing history "People of the River" illuminates Australia’s distant past. The book opens in deep history, describing the topography and course of the... Read More

Michelle Duff’s "Jacinda Ardern" follows the political trajectory of the world’s youngest woman leader, whose commitment to “relentless positivity” has changed the... Read More

Truganini is a near-mythic figure in Australian history; called “the last Tasmanian,” she died in 1876. Drawing on contemporary sources, Cassandra Pybus reconstructs... Read More

Written for Gen X and Gen Y folks who don’t mind a bit of colorful language, Melissa Browne’s Unf⁎ck Your Finances is a comprehensive and user-friendly guidebook to... Read More

Craig Phillips offers excellent graphic adaptations of well-known and obscure fairy tales alike in Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts: Ten Tales from the Deep, Dark Woods. Phillips... Read More

Why do we have war? Where does it come from? "Trouble Tomorrow" explores the origins of conflict through the story of a child soldier in modern Sudan. Based on a true story, the... Read More

"Into the White" is a thoughtful and satisfying account of the the Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole. "Into the White" tells the harrowing and tragic tale of Robert Falcon... Read More