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Philosophy
How To Keep Your Cool: An ancient guide to anger management by Seneca, translated by James Romm & How To Be a Friend: An ancient guide to true friendship by by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Philip Freeman
Commentary
Yes Yes Yes: Australia’s journey to marriage equality by Alex Greenwich and Shirleene Robinson & Going Postal edited by Quinn Eades and Son Vivienne
History
Freedom in White and Black: A lost story of the illegal slave trade and its global legacy by Emma Christopher
Politics
Handbook of Political Party Funding edited by Jonathan Mendilow and Eric Phélippeau
Literary Studies
Portraits from Life: Modernist novelists and autobiography by Jerome Boyd Maunsell
China
Out of China: How the Chinese ended the era of Western domination by Robert Bickers
Animal Rights
The Inner Life of Animals: Love, grief and compassion – surprising observations of a hidden world by Peter Wohlleben, translated by Jane Billinghurst
by Ben Brooker
Letters
Dashing for the Post: The letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor edited by Adam Sisman
by Ian Britain
History
Memorandoms by James Martin: An astonishing escape from early New South Wales edited by Tim Causer
by James Dunk
Society
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy by Jonathan Taplin
by Joel Deane
Letters
Darling Mother, Darling Son: The letters of Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne, 1929–1972 edited by Edith M. Ziegler
Classics
The Classical Debt: Greek antiquity in an Era of austerity by Johanna Hanink
by Peter Acton
Politics
Australia’s Northern Shield?: Papua New Guinea and the defence of Australia since 1880 by Bruce Hunt
by Seumas Spark
Poet of the Month
Alan Wearne is Poet of the Month
History
Missing in Action: Australia’s World War I grave services, an astonishing story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing by Marianne van Velzen
History
Newman College: A history 1918–2018 by Brenda Niall, Josephine Dunin, and Frances O’Neill
Publisher of the Month
Michael Brennan is Publisher of the Month
Biography
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century by George Packer
History