The lead-up to Christmas is peak book-buying time, and here is a round up of 12 new works that will keep readers entertained, provoked and reflecting.
It’s hard to believe but, yes, we’re in the final month of the year. It’s all gone so quickly and there have been so many books published in the past 11 months. The lead-up to Christmas is peak book-buying time, and here are another 12 that will keep readers entertained, provoked and reflecting.Quite a change for Helen Garner. No courtroom, no death, no trauma. Rather, a tender, detailed observation of her grandson’s season with a local football team.
– but here the Wiradjuri man gets personal, spiritual and theological. He has turned his back on the media and politics and writes about love and time – the love he sees in his parents, his relationship with his father, Stan Grant snr, and the ideas and meanings of time from Einstein, Bergson and the Dreamtime. His Wiradjuri people have a phrase, Yinyamarra Winanghana, which means “to live with respect in a world worth living in”, which is what Grant wants.
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