New books for September-October 2024

FICTION

Here one moment by Liane Moriarty (F MOR)

Acrobat music: new & selected poems by Jill Jones (A 821.3 JON)

Booker Prize Shortlist 2024

Orbital by Samantha Harvey (F HAR)

Creation lake by Rachel Kushner (F KUS)

James by Percival Everett (F EVE)

The safe keep by Yael van der Wouden (F WOU)

Held by Anne Michaels (F HEL)

NONFICTION

A memoir of my former self: a life in writing by Hilary Mantel (820.8 MAN)

Restorative cities: urban design for mental health and wellbeing by Jenny Roe & Layla McCay (307.1216010 ROE)

Design: building on country by Alison Page & Paul Memmott (305.89915 PAG)

In the shadow of freedom: the enduring call for racial justice by Alessandra Harris (305.800973 HAR)

Touched by this place: theology, community and the power of place by Benjamin Valentin (153.2 VAL)

Men on horseback: the power of charisma in the age of revolution by David Bell (909.7 BEL)

We are not able to live in the sky: the seductive promise of microfinance by Mara Kardas-Nelson (332.09664 KAR)

Anxiety: a philosophical guide by Samir Chopra (152.46 CHO)

Broken heart: a true history of the voice referendum by Shireen Morris (323.119915 MOR)

Puff piece by John Safran (381.456797 SAF)

Co-intelligence: living and working with AI by Ethan Mollick (006.3 MOL)

Identity designed: the process by David Airey (658.827 AIR)

Us women, our ways, our world edited by Pat Dudgeon (305.488 DUD)

Killing for country: a family story by David Marr (994.02 MAR)

Warra Warra Wai: how Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook by Darren Rix (994.01 RIX)

How to fit all of ancient Greece in an elevator by Theodore Papakostas (938 PAP)

You are more than what you eat by Dr Emma Beckett (613.2 BEK)

Essential but unplanned: the story of Melbourne's lanes by Weston Bate (994.51 BAT)