October 2017, no. 395
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
Reviewed by Beejay Silcox
Call of the Reed Warbler: A new agriculture – a new earth by Charles Massy
Reviewed by Tim Flannery
Slow Catastrophes: Living with drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones
Reviewed by Deb Anderson
The Songs of Trees: Stories from nature’s great connectors by David George Haskell
Reviewed by Roger McDonald
Sunlight and Seaweed: An argument for how to feed, power, and clean up the world by Tim Flannery
Reviewed by Kate Griffiths
'Among Trees' by Philip Jones
Reviewed by Philip Jones
Burn Out: The endgame for fossil fuels by Dieter Helm
Reviewed by Peter Christoff
Zoo Ethics: The challenges of compassionate conservation by Jenny Gray
Reviewed by Matthew Chrulew
The Australian Bird Guide edited by Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack, and Kim Franklin
Reviewed by Richard Noske
Cardinal: The rise and fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
Reviewed by Barney Zwartz
'Attention, Please' by Peter Rose
Reviewed by Peter Rose
The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc by Ali Alizadeh
Reviewed by Shannon Burns
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Reviewed by Nicole Abadee
Rain Birds by Harriet McKnight
Reviewed by Gretchen Shirm
Wimmera by Mark Brandi
Reviewed by Jay Daniel Thompson
City of Crows by Chris Womersley
Reviewed by David Whish-Wilson
A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré
Reviewed by Simon Caterson
Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India by Shashi Tharoor
Reviewed by Mridula Nath Chakraborty
Required Reading: Literature in Australian schools since 1945 edited by Tim Dolin, Joanne Jones, and Patricia Dowsett
Reviewed by Ilana Snyder