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Books October 14, 2017
The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook
Jerome Cardano was the kind of gifted polymath who could have existed only in 16th-century Europe, when science was just beginning to set itself apart from the domains of mysticism, magic and alchemy. He is the focus of Michael Brooks’s The Quantum …
Books June 17, 2017
Woman of Substances
If anyone is qualified to give a firsthand account of the ways addiction, treatment and recovery are deeply gendered experiences, it’s certainly Jenny Valentish, who has more than enough knowledge of addiction to fill any number of memoirs. Fortunately, …
Books August 12, 2017
The Vandemonian War
In The Vandemonian War, historian Nick Brodie turns his attention to one of the most contentious and fiercely debated events in Australian history: the frontier conflict that erupted between Aboriginal inhabitants and British colonisers in Van …
Books May 27, 2017
Ache
A year after bushfire devastated the small mountainside town where she grew up, Annie leaves her city life and strained marriage and returns with her young daughter, Pip, to the scene of the destruction. Annie clearly isn’t coping with the lingering …
