NOVELS

Barnes, Julian The Sense of an Ending F BAR:J

Tony Webster thought he'd left the past behind as he built a life for himself, his marriage, family and
career fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious
legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he'd understood, and to revise his
estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Hamid, Mohsin The Reluctant Fundamentalist F HAM:M

Also available as an ebook.
At a cafe table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As
dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter.

Hamid Mohsin Exit West F HAM:M

Civil war has come to the city which Nadia and Saeed call home. Before long they will need to leave
their motherland behind - when the streets are no longer useable and the unknown is safer than the
known. They will join the great outpouring of people fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against hope,
looking for their place in the world.

Le Carre, John A Legacy of Spies F LEC:J

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service,
otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of
Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past
has come back to claim him.

McEwan, Ian Nutshell F MCE:I

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She is still in the marital home, a dilapidated, priceless
London townhouse, but not with John. Instead, she is with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude,
and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old
resident of Trudy's womb.

Orwell, George Animal Farm F ORW:G

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Mr. Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The
ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking
over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is
organised to benefit all who walk on four legs.

Winton, Tim Breath F WIN:T

When paramedic Bruce Pike arrives too late to save a boy found hanged in his bedroom he senses
immediately that this lonely death is an accident. Pike knows the difference between suicide and
misadventure. He understands only too well the forces that can propel a kid toward oblivion.

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 SHORT STORIES

Atwood, Margaret Stone Mattress F ATW:M

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy.

Bellow, Saul Collected Stories F BEL:S

Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance
which characterizes this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of a single day, some are
contained in a wider frame; each story is a characteristic combination of observation and a celebration
of humanity.

Blixen, Karen Seven Gothic Tales F BLI:K

Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world
conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and
Elsinore to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar.

Borges, Jorge Luis Labyrinths : Selected Stories and Other Writings F BOR:J
A collection of short stories, essays and parables.

Bradbury, Ray Ray Bradbury stories : volume 1 and 2 F BRA:R

One hundred classic stories from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451.

Byatt, A.S. The Oxford Book of English Short Stories F OXF

An anthology which specifically takes the English short story as its theme. The 37 stories have been
selected from the nineteenth and twentieth century, ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J G
Ballard, Angela Carter and Ian McEwan, though many draw from the richness of earlier English literary
writing.

Capote, Truman Complete Stories F CAP:T

A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.
Includes: 'Miriam', 'The Headless Hawk', 'Children on their Birthdays', 'A Christmas Memory' and
'Among the Paths to Eden'.

Carey, Peter Collected Stories F CAR:P

The Collected Stories combines the brilliant, bizarre, funny and chilling.

Carter, Angela Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories F CAR:A

As her great friend and confidante, Salman Rushdie says in the foreword to this collection…."Accused
by lazy pens of political correctness, she was the most individual, independent and idiosyncratic of
writers; dismissed by many in her lifetime as a marginal cultish figure, an exotic hothouse flower, she
has become the cotemporary writer most studied at British universities - a victory over the mainstream
she would have enjoyed...".

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Carver, Raymond Cathedral Stories F CAR:R
A dozen stories giving an insight into the world around us - danger, excitement, mystery and possibility
of life.

Carver, Raymond Where I’m Calling From: the Selected Stories F CAR:R
This selection of short stories is the author's own choice from the full range of his work.

Chandler, Raymond Collected Stories F CHA:R

The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature.

Diaz, Junot This is How You Lose Her F DIA:J

A collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love - told
through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as they struggle to find a point where their two worlds
meet.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald F FIT:F

This collection encompasses the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, ranging from the early
stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last twilight decade of his
life.

Ford, Richard (ed.) The New Granta Book of the American Short Story F FOR:R
With an illuminating exposition from the editor on how a good story is made, this anthology revises the
definitive collection Ford assembled in 1992. Included are stories by American masters of the craft:
Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor, and forty other writers.

The Overcoat (in ‘The Diary of a Madman and Other

Gogol, Nikolai Stories’) 891.733 GOG
The story narrates the life and death of titular councilor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an
impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg.

Gogol, Nikolai The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories 891.733 GOG
Some call him a Russian Mark Twain. And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and
fantasy, Nikolai Gogol paved the way for his countrymen Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. This sampling of
Gogol’s works includes the increasingly fantastic entries of “The Diary of a Madman” followed by the
wonderfully surrealistic “The Nose,” in which the title character embarks on some unlikely activities
when separated from its owner’s face.

Gordimer, Nadine Selected Stories F GOR:N

In these stories, unforgettable characters from every corner of society come to life. The African
landscape they inhabit - from the River Zaire to black Johannesburg to the hushed gardens of the white
suburbs - is brilliantly depicted.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories F HAW:N
This selection of twenty of Hawthorne's tales is the first in paperback to present his most important
short works with full annotation in one volume. His portraits of colonial life reflect his Puritan heritage
and offer fascinating profiles of individuals who strive for freedom from social conventions.

Hemingway, Ernest The Collected Stories F HEM:E

The stories touch on the same themes as his novels: war, love, the nature of heroism, renunciation and
the writer's life.

Hemingway, Ernest The Essential Hemingway F HEM:E

The Essential Hemingway brings together a wide selection of Hemingway's works, providing an
excellent introduction to his extensive writing. The collection includes the full text of ‘Fiesta’,
Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from his larger works of fiction, ‘A Farewell to Arms’, ‘To
Have and Have Not’ and ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’; twenty-five complete short stories; and the epilogue
to ‘Death in the Afternoon’.

Joyce, James Dubliners F JOY:J

Joyce's first major work, written when he was only 25. The short stories are rooted in the rich detail of
Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline,
sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure.

Keret, Etgar The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories F KER:E
Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Keret's stories are snapshots that illuminate with
intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best comic authors, hilarity and anguish are the
twin pillars of his work.

Keret, Etgar The Seven Good Years F KER:E

The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son, Lev, and the death of his father were good
years, but still full of reasons to worry. Lev was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.
Etgar's father became sick. And Etgar has been constantly tormented by nightmarish visions of the
former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, anti-Semitic remarks both real and imagined, and,
perhaps most worrisome of all, a dogged telemarketer who seems likely to chase him to the grave.

Keret, Etgar Suddenly, a Knock on the Door F KER:E

In Etgar Keret's new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most
playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent children and talking animals, dreams
and waking life coexist in an uneasy world.

Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Books F KIP:P

This is a collection of short stories and poems revolving round the boy Mowgli, who was raised by a
pack of wolves in India.

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Kipling, Rudyard Just So Stories F KIP:R
These twelve magical tales tell, among other things, how the camel got his hump, the leopard his spots,
the elephant his trunk, how the alphabet was made and how a butterfly caused mayhem at the court of
King Solomon when he stamped.

Kipling, Rudyard Twenty-One Tales F KIP:R

Twenty one of Kipling's best short stories, selected by Tim Wilkinson.

Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies F LAH:J

Available as an eBook.
These elegant stories tell the lives of Indians in exile, of people navigating between the strict traditions
they've inherited and the baffling New World they must encounter every day.

Lahiri, Jhumpa Unaccustomed Earth F LAH:J

A new collection of stories that explore the heart of family life and the immigrant experience.

Lawrence, D.H. The Complete Short Stories (vol. 1 and 2) F LAW:D

The settings in theses short stories range from the scenes of his Nottinghamshire boyhood and his
teaching years to the world of his travels, but the stories always encompass the eternal in the particular.

London, Jack Tales of the North F LON:J

Jack London has captivated millions of readers around the world with his classic tales of the high seas
and untamed wilderness. His characters are men of courage and valor who struggle to survive the
unforgiving elements.

Macleod, Alistair Island : Collected Stories F MAC:A

Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, these stories are all concerned with
the complexities and mysteries of the human heart. Steeped in memory and myth and washed in the
brine and blood of the long battle with the land and the sea, they celebrate a passionate engagement
with the natural world and a continuity of the generations in the face of transition - in the face of love
and loss.

Malouf, David The Complete Stories F MAL:D

David Malouf shares tales of bookish boys, taciturn men and intimate stories of men and women
looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on.

Mansfield, Katherine The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield F MAN:K

This collection represents the whole range of Mansfield's writing encompassing her three major
volumes - Bliss, The Garden Party and In a German Pension - and fifteen fragments of unfinished
stories published after her tragic death, including Honesty, an intriguing tale of two bachelors, and The
Doves' Nest, a story of a widowed mother and her daughter in the Riviera who receive a mysterious
gentleman caller.

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Melville, Herman Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories F MEL:H
Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Sailor exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and
France to create a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human
relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice.

Moore, Lorrie Bark F MOO:L

In these eight stories Lorrie Moore explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable
sorrows and comic pitfalls.

Munro, Alice New Selected Stories F MUN:A

Alice Munro's stories infuse everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. Written with emotion
and empathy, beautifully observed and crafted, these stories offer a masterclass in the genre.

Munro, Alice Dear Life F MUN:A

A young soldier, returning to his fiancée from the Second World War, steps off the train before his stop
and onto the farm of another woman, beginning a life on the move. This book ends with four powerful
pieces, 'autobiographical in feeling', set during the time of the author's own childhood, in the area where
she grew up.

Nabokov, Vladimir The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov F NAB:V

Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single,
comprehensive volume. Written from the early 1920s - the years of his exile from Russia - to the mid-
1950s, when he abandoned the story form and turned to his English-language masterpieces Lolita,
Pale Fire, and Ada, these stories reveal the fascinating progress of Nabokov's early development.

Nguyen, Viet Thanh The Refugees F NGU:V

In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted
homeland and the country of birth.

O’Connor, Flannery Complete Stories F OCO:F

This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of
the twentieth-century.

Poe, Edgar Allan Tales of Mystery and Imagination F POE:E

The eerie stories of Edgar Allan Poe remain amongst the most influential works of American fiction and
will make your hair stand on end.

Pritchett, V.S. The Essential Pritchett : Selected Writings of V.S. Pritchett F PRI:V
This volume contains an engrossing and lively collection of Pritchett's autobiographical, travel and
critical writings and a selection of the humorous and poignant short stories for which he is most
remembered.

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Proulx, Annie Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories F PRO:A
Brokeback Mountain is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they
have done for generations - hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country.

Proulx, Annie Close Range : Wyoming Stories F PRO:A

Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these breathtaking tales of
loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range
reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace.

Salinger, J.D. For Esme – With Love and Squalor F SAL:J

A collection of nine exceptional stories from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the Rye.

Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey F SAL:J

A funny, poignant snapshot of young adulthood. Franny Glass and Lane Coutell are the perfect campus
couple: beautiful, intelligent, their whole lives ahead of them. But one weekend when Franny is visiting,
amid the excitement of the big Yale game, something goes wrong and tensions begin to surface.

Salter, James Collected Stories F SAL:J

Concerning men and women in their most intimate moments, struggling with loss, desire, or the burden
of memory.

Sankaran, Lavanya The Red Carpet F SAN:L

From traditional mothers trying to marry off their Westernised children to software billionaires,
chauffeurs and the legacy of the Raj, Lavanya Sankaran's stories of Bangalore, India's Silicone Valley,
are a pleasure from first to last.

The complete stories of Robert Louis Stevenson:

Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen
Robert Louis Other Tales F STE:R
The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more
than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the
complete selection of Stevenson’s brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece ‘Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’, as well as “The Beach of Falesá” and Stevenson’s previously uncollected
stories.

Theroux, Paul Fresh-Air Fiend : Travel Writings, 1985-2000 910.4 THE

Full of startling encounters and memorable scenes, fascinating and sometimes bizarre locations, and
enlightening musings on themes as various as sexual attraction and the point of travel writing itself, this
extensive collection of Paul Theroux's shorter travel writings is a rich and remarkable book.

Trevor, William The Collected Stories F TRE:W

Here is the ultimate collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging
from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting.

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Wallace, David Foster Oblivion : Stories F WAL:D
In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with
the infinite involutions of self-consciousness.

White, Patrick The Burnt Ones F WHI:P

Includes eleven stories to which Patrick White brings his immense understanding of the urges which lie
just beneath the facade of ordinary human relationships, especially those between men and women.

White, Patrick The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories F WHI:P

A collection of six novellas and short stories

Wilde, Oscar The Happy Prince and Other Stories F WIL:O

A collection of magical tales about kings, queens, witches, mermaids, dwarfs and sorcerers, including
"The happy prince" and "The selfish giant".

Wolfe, Tom The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamlined Baby F WOL:T

Wolfe introduces us to the sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing to do with the elite
culture of the past.

POETRY
Lawrence, Anthony To Enter Mount Wellington (in ‘Bark’) A821.3 LAW
Exploring the Australian landscape, Anthony Lawrence's 12th collection of poetry seizes the harshness
of rural existence without overlooking the minute, beautiful details of the surrounding world. Filled with a
rich lyrical vein, the poems meditate on all aspects of life from native birds and fish to deeply moving
personal reflections of family life.

Slessor, Kenneth Five Bells (in ‘Selected Poems’) A821.3 SLE

In 'Five Bells', Slessor mourns the death by drowning of Joe Lynch.

OTHER RESOURCES

Babbitt, Milton Who Cares if You Listen

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The article, which begins "This article might have been entitled 'The Composer as Specialist'", does not
refer to serialism at all, but rather takes the position that "serious", "advanced" music, like advanced
mathematics, philosophy, and physics, is too complex for a "normally well-educated man without
special preparation" to "understand".

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Baker, Nicholson The Way The World Works : Essays 814.6 BAK
Baker's second nonfiction collection ranges over the map of life to examine what troubles us, what
eases our pain, and what brings us joy. Baker moves from political controversy to the intimacy of his
own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick,
Joseph Pulitzer, the "OED," and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola.

Barnes, Julian Something to Declare 910.4 BAR

The essays collected here, written over a twenty-year period, attest to Julian Barnes' clear-eyed
appreciation of France. He ranges widely, from landscape to literature, food to Flaubert, film and song
to the Tour de France.

Berger, John John Berger : Selected Essays 814.54 BER:D

Polemical, meditative, radical, always original, Berger’s essays are extremely wide-ranging.
Photographers, artists, thinkers and peasants, zoos, museums and cities he has travelled to are among
his subjects, sometimes within the apace of a single essay.

Best Travel writing 2005 : True Stories From Around the World 910.4 BES
Travellers’ tales about the world, adventure, spirituality, and the life-changing experiences that take
place on the road.

The Boyer Collection : Highlights of the Boyer Lectures 1959-2000 A825.3 BOY
The Boyer Collection includes a carefully selected lecture as representative of each Boyer Lecture
series. It is intended as a celebrating of the vibrancy of the ideas and debates that move our society.
The lectures have been selected and introduced by the current chairman of the ABC, Donald
McDonald, with the aim of commemorating the outstanding achievements of the lectures and the
annual lectures that have brought their ideas to the wider Australian public.

Bryson, Bill Down Under 910.4 BRY

Bill Bryson travels to Australia and discovers "life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life
was at once recognisably similar but entirely different".

Bryson, Bill Notes From a Small Island : Journey Through Britain 914.104 BRY
In 1993, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few
years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour
of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.

Bryson, Bill A Walk in the Woods 910.4 BRY

Bryson gamely struggled through the wilderness to achieve a lifetime's ambition - not to die outdoors.

Clendinnen, Inga Agamemnon’s Kiss : Selected Essays A824.3 CLE

A thrilling selection of essays by one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Clendinnen writes about
everything from the books that terrified her as a child to what history can teach us about our own times.

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Darwin, Charles The Origin of the Species and the Voyage of the Beagle 576.82 DAR
When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle
in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory
of evolution of species by a process of natural selection.

De Waal, Edmund The Hare With the Amber Eyes : a Hidden Inheritance 920 DEW:E
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was
entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great Uncle Iggie.
Later, when Edmund inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have
imagined.

The Third Chimpanzee : the Evolution and Future of

Diamond, Jared the Human Animal 599.938 DIA
Explores why humans who share 98% of genes in common with chimpanzee evolved the extraordinary
capacities to found civilisations, religions, develop intricate languages and cultures. Jared Diamond
surveys the life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to
explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins.

Guns, Germs and Steel : a Short History of Everybody

Diamond, Jared for the Last 13,000 Years 303.4 DIA
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult questions about human
history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, not
race moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans and
Aboriginal Australians.

Didion, Joan Live and Learn 814.5 DID

'Slouching towards Bethlehem' captures the mood of the 60's in America. 'The White Album' is a
swirling mosaic of the 60s and 70s; and 'After Henry' shifts its perspective slightly to take in Vietnamese
refugee camps, the Reagan era, and the brutal sentimentality of New York.

Lyrics from: ‘Blood on the Tracks’ album; ‘Blonde on Blonde’ album;

Dylan, Bob ‘Highway 61’ album.
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Blonde on Blonde: https://genius.com/albums/Bob-dylan/Blonde-on-blonde
Highway 61: https://genius.com/albums/Bob-dylan/Highway-61-revisited

Einstein, Albert Essays in Humanism 144 EIN

Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly
prescient topics scientist Albert Einstein discusses in this volume of collected essays from between
1931 and 1950. Written with a clear voice and a thoughtful perspective on the effects of science,
economics, and politics in daily life, Einstein’s essays provide an intriguing view inside the mind of a
genius addressing the philosophical challenges presented during the turbulence of the Great
Depression, the Second World War, and the dawn of the Cold War.

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Einstein, Albert Essays in Physics 530.1 EIN
His name is synonymous with "genius," but these essays by the renowned physicist and scholar are
accessible to any reader. In addition to outlining the core of relativity theory in everyday language,
Albert Einstein presents fascinating discussions of other scientific fields to which he made significant
contributions. The Nobel Laureate also profiles some of history's most influential physicists, upon
whose studies his own work was based. Assembled during Einstein's lifetime from his speeches and
essays, this book marks the first presentation to the wider world of the scientist's accomplishments in
the field of abstract physics.

Einstein, Albert Essays in Science 501 EIN

In addition to outlining the core of relativity theory in everyday language, Albert Einstein presents
fascinating discussions of other scientific fields to which he made significant contributions. Along with
relativity theory, these articles examine the methods of theoretical physics, principles of research, and
the concept of scientific truth.

Franzen, Jonathan How to be Alone : Essays 814.54 FRA

Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each
piece wrestles with essential themes of Franzen's writings: the erosion of civic life and private dignity,
and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America.

Gill, A.A. Here & There: Collected Travel Writing 910.4 FIL
Touching on tourism, airports, world cuisine and countries including Madagascar, Iceland and Albania,
Gill's perspective is often controversial and always unique.

George, Don (ed.) Tales from Nowhere 910.4 TAL

A short story anthology of adventure in places that feel like the middle of nowhere, this work is an
exploration of the remote corners of our world. It's about the places and experiences that give you a
sense that you are far from home, far from anywhere you've known - the middle of nowhere.

Gould, Stephen Jay The Richness of Life : The Essential Stephen Jay Gould 570 GOU
Stephen Gould is a world renowned scientist, canonised by the US Congress as a 'living legend'.
Includes the most famous of Gould's essays, as well as extracts from his major books.

The Lying Stones of Marrakech : Penultimate Reflections

Gould, Stephen Jay in Natural History 508 GOU
In this new collection of essays, the author has applied biographical perspectives to the illumination of
key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the origins of palaeontology to modern eugenics
and genetic engineering.

Grant, Stan (Speech) Racism is Destroying the Australian Dream

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A powerful speech by Indigenous journalist Stan Grant in which he says the Australian dream is rooted
in racism.

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 Quarterly Essay 64 : The Australian Dream : Blood,
Grant, Stan History and Becoming 305.89915 QUA
In this landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and
multicultural history of Australia. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to
survive, but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of Indigenous success – cultural,
sporting, intellectual and social – that we see today.

Haigh, Gideon Inside Out : Writings on Australian Cricket 796.3580994 HAI

Gideon Haigh examines those aspects of cricket that distinguish it from other games, from the
centenary of Sir Donald Bradman and the cult of the baggy green cap to the threat and promise of the
Twenty20 revolution. This is cricket not only as it is played, but as it is seen, run, commercialised,
codified, promoted, politicised and also written about by others, with a detailed introduction to the
distinguished literary traditions.

Hitchens, Christopher Letters to a Young Contrarian 303.32 HIT

In this book the author inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young
(wo)men and dissidents. The book explores the entire range of "contrary positions", invoking mentors
such as Emile Zola, Rosa Parks and Vaclav Havel. What they have in common is a commitment to
living and thinking, right now, in a society not as it is but as it might be.

Hughes, John The Idea of Home A824.3 HUG

John Hughes writes about growing up in the Hunter Valley coal-mining town of Cessnock, in a
household dominated by memories of the Ukraine, which his mother and grandparents were forced to
flee during the Second World War.

Hughes, Robert Nothing if not Critical : Selected Essays on Art and Artists 709 HUG
Hughes addresses himself not only to the particular skill and vision of some eighty artists, whether old
masters or our contemporaries in Europe and America, but also to the vexed questions of art teaching,
art and the marketplace, and art as a social function in the age of network television.

James, Clive Unreliable Memoirs 920 JAM

Also available as an eBook.
A very funny autobiography by Clive James.

James, C.L.R. Beyond a Boundary 796.358 JAM

In this enlightening book, James writes not only about cricket, but indulges entertainingly in
philosophising about many aspects of life - sociology, the culture of ancient Greece, politics and art.

Johnston, Emma (ed.) The Best Australian Science Writing 2017 500 BES
Brings together knowledge and insight from Australia's brightest thinkers as they explore the
intricacies of the world around us. This lively collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects, and
challenges our perceptions of the world and how we exist within it.

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Leys, Simon (Pierre
Ryckmans) The Hall of Uselessness : Collected Essays A824.3 LEY
Simon Leys' cultural and political commentary has spanned four decades, with no corner of the arts
escaping his sharp eye and acerbic wit. The Hall of Uselessness forms the most complete collection
yet of Leys' fascinating essays, from Quixotism to China, from the sea to literature. Leys feuds with
Christopher Hitchens, ponders the popularity of Victor Hugo and analyses the posthumous publication
of Nabokov's unfinished novel.

Malcolm, Janet The Journalist and the Murderer 174.9097 MAL

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what
he does is morally indefensible." Janet Malcolm begins this book with the words above, which have
become famous (and infamous), and then sets out to demonstrate the charge with the story of the
lawsuit between Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, and Joe McGinniss, the author of a book
about the crime.

McDougall, Born to run : the Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners,

Christopher and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 796.4252 MCD
Tells the amazing story of the Tarahumara, a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians who are reputed to
be the best distance runners in the world.

The New York Times Book of Science: More than 150 Years of
Groundbreaking Scientific Coverage 500 NEW
For well over a century, The New York Times has been a beacon of science coverage, and these 125
articles from its archives spotlight a vast array of breakthroughs, setbacks, and mysteries, as selected
by David Corcoran, a 13-year veteran of the Times science desk.

Newby, Eric Love and War in the Apennines 920 NEW

The gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during
World War II. After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the prison camp in which
he'd been held for a year. He evaded the German army by hiding in the caves and forests of
Fontanellato, in Italy's Po Valley. Against this picturesque backdrop, he was sheltered for three months
by an informal network of Italian peasants, who fed, supported and nursed him, before his eventual
recapture.

Newby, Eric A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush 910.4 NEW

No mountaineer, Newby set out with a friend to explore the formidable peaks of the Nuristan
Mountains in northeast Afghanistan. His witty, unorthodox report is packed with incidents both ghastly
and ecstatic as he takes us where few Western feet have trod.

Obama, Barak (Speech): Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention, 2004

Can be accessed on YouTube from: https://bit.ly/1lhrsBK

Transcript: https://wapo.st/1fUiAUq

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The Picador Book of Sportswriting (edited by Nick Coleman & Nick Hornby) 796 PIC
A collection that selects the best sports writing from both traditional sportswriters and writers inspired
by sports they love.

The Language Instinct : the New Science of Language

Pinker, Steven and Mind 400 PIN
This book illuminates every facet of human language; its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity,
its acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the
pathology of speech disorders and the unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry

Pirsig, Robert into Values 910.4 PIR
A book which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence detailing a personal
philosophical odyssey. A pathfinding attempt to examine and solve our contemporary ills.

Ronson, Jon Them : Adventures with Extremists 332.42 RON

Investigates the world of 'them' and 'us'; Is there really, as the extremists claim, a secret room from
which a tiny elite secretly rules the world? And if so, can it be found? When Jon Ronson attempts to
locate the secret room, he is chased by men in dark glasses, unmasked as a Jew in the middle of a
Jihad training camp, and witnesses CEOs and leading politicians undertake a bizarre pagan owl ritual
in the forests of Northern California. He also learns some alarming things about the looking-glass
world of them and us.

Ronson, Jon So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed 152.44 RON

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of famous public
shamings, often while their shamings are in full force. These are people like us--people who, say,
made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once a transgression is
revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane, and the next thing they know, they're
being torn apart, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their jobs.

Ross, Alex Listen to This 780 ROS

Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, looks both backward and forward in time, capturing
essential figures and ideas in classical-music history as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop
music that emphasizes the power of the individual musical voice in whatever genre. He explains how
pop music can achieve the status of high art and how classical music can become a vital part of the
wider contemporary culture.

Ross, Alex The Rest is Noise : Listening to the Twentieth Century 780.904 ROS
Takes the reader inside the labyrinth of modern sound. It tells of maverick personalities who have
resisted the cult of the classical past, struggled against the indifference of a wide public, and defied the
will of dictators.

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Sontag, Susan Where the Stress Falls : Essays 814.54 SON
Susan Sontag has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades of her
writing, that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations and ideas.
This book records a great American writer's urgent engagement with some of the most significant
aesthetic and moral issues of the late twentieth century, and provides a brilliant and clear-eyed
appraisal of what is at stake, in this new century, in the survival of that inheritance.

The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson : Fear

Thompson, Hunter S. and Loathing at Rolling Stone 813.54 THO
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the evolution of a writer through his work at the
magazine that he helped to put on the map. Jann S . Wenner, Hunter Thompson's editor and friend for
nearly thirty-five years, has chosen the pieces, including many never collected before. They show how
Thompson's Rolling Stone writing, when taken as a whole, forms an extended, allusive autobiography
of the writer himself as he pursues his lifelong obsession, the king-hell story of them all: The Death of
the American Dream.

Trilling, Lionel The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent : Selected Essays 814.52 TRI
Bringing together the thoughts of one of American literature's sharpest cultural critics, this
compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of Lionel Trilling. Trilling was a
strenuous thinker who was proud to think too much. As an intellectual he did not spare his own kind,
and though he did not consider himself a rationalist, he was grounded in the world.

Vonnegut, Kurt A Man Without a Country 920 VON

This is vintage Vonnegut - hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he fixes his gaze on art, politics,
himself and the condition of the soul of America today.

Vonnegut, Kurt Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (Opinions) 920 VON

Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut
speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and the writing of
others. An indignant, outrageous, witty, deeply felt collection of reviews, essays, and speeches, this is
a window not only into Vonnegut's mind but also into his heart.

Wallace, David Foster Consider the Lobster and Other Essays 814.54 WAL
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal
anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year
Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new
book of hilarious non-fiction.

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