New books for March-April 2024

FICTION

My brilliant sister by Amy Brown (F BRO)

The other Bridget by Rachael Johns (F JOH)

What happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan (F MCT)

Good material by Dolly Alderton (F ALD)

A court of thorns and roses by Sarah J. Maas (F MAA)

The work by Bri Lee (F LEE)

Bodies of light by Jennifer Down (F DOW)

Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay (F MCK)

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (F PAT)

Stella Prize Shortlist

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (A 823.4 WRI)

The swift dark tide by Katia Ariel (F ARI)

Abandon every hope: essays for the dead by Hayley Singer (A 824.92 SIN)

Body friend by Katherine Brabon (F BRA)

Hospital by Sanya Rushdi (F RUS)

Feast by Emily O'Grady (F OGR)

NONFICTION

The great mental models by Farnam Street (153 RIM)

The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness by Jonathan Haidt (616.8522 HAI)

Paperback therapy: therapist approved tools and advice for mastering your mental health by Tammi Miller (158.1 MIL)

Black duck: a year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe (305.89915 PAS)

Who cares?: life on welfare in Australia by Eve Vincent (362.5820994 VIN)

Japan by Lonely Planet (915.2045 LON)

War on corruption: an Indonesian experience by Todung Mulya Lubis (353.4609598 LUB)

The great housing hijack by Cameron Murray (363.50994 MUR)

White holes: inside the horizon by Carlo Rovelli (530.11 ROV)

How infrastructure works: transforming our shared systems for a changing world by Deb Chachra (363 CHA)

Death without weeping: the violence of everyday life in Brazil by Nancy Sheper-Hughes (303.60981 SCH)

Beyond DNA: how epigenics is transforming our understanding of evolution by Benjamin Oldroyd (576.5 OLD)

Why we die: the new science of ageing and the quest for immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan (616.078 RAM)

Five times faster: rethinking the science, economics, and diplomacy of climate change by Simon Sharpe (363.738745 SHA)

Why we remember: the science of memory and how it shapes us by Dr Charan Ranganath (153.12 RAN)

Little species, big mystery: the story of Homo floresiensis by Debbie Argue (569.9 ARG)

Judicial dysfunction in Indonesia by Simon Butt (347.598 BUT)

Climate politics in Oceania: renewing Australia-pacific relations in a warming world (327.94 RIM)