New titles for August 2022
FICTION
The hitchhiker by Gerwin Van Der Werf (F VAN)
Ancestry by Simon Mawer (F MAW)
The last white man by Mohsin Hamid (F HAM)
You made a fool of death with your beauty by Akwaeke Emezi (F EME)
Marlo by Jay Carmichael (F CAR)
Scattered all over the earth by Yoko Tawada (F TAW)
The It girl by Ruth Ware (F WAR)
Better the blood by Michael Bennett (F BEN)
Faithless by Alice Nelson (F NEL)
Life ceremony: stories by Sayaka Murata (F MUR)
Everything feels like the end of the world by Else Fitzgerald (F FIT)
Every version of you by Grace Chan (F CHA)
The daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (F MOR)
Mortal divide: the autobiography of Yiogos Alexandroglou by George Alexander (F ALE)
Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe (F DRE)
The whitewash by Siang Lu (F LU)
Stay awake by Megan Goldin (F GOL)
How high we go in the dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (F NAG)
First love by Gwendoline Riley (F RIL)
My phantoms by Gwendoline Riley (F RIL)
NONFICTION
My father and other animals: how I took on the family farm by Sam Vincent (F VIN)
Instead of a letter by Diana Athill (828.91409 ATH)
Left on tenth: a second chance at life by Delia Ephron (814.54 EPH)
Overdue: reckoning with the public library by Amanda Oliver (027.473 OLI)
The emergency: a year of healing and heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas Fisher (362.108996073 FIS)
The power of regret: how looking back moves us forward by Daniel Pink (152.4 PIN)
Rigged: how networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians by Cameron Murray (364.1323 MUR)
How to be you: Simone de Beauvoir and the art of authentic living by Skye Cleary (158.1 BEA.C)
Ancestor trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation by Maud Newton (929.20973 NEW)
Christians: the urgent case for Jesus in our world by Greg Sheridan (230 SHE)
The year the world went mad: a scientific memoir by Mark Woolhouse (362.1962414 WOO)
Super-infinite: the transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell (821.3 DON.R)
The Trayvon generation by Elizabeth Alexander (305.896073 ALE)
A German officer in occupied Paris: the war journals, 1941-1945 by Ernst Junger (838.91207 JUN)
Westography: remnants of a vanishing suburbia by Warren Kirk (779.4 KIR)
The penalty is death: state power, law, and justice by Barry Jones (364.994 JON)
Australia's China odyssey: from euphoria to fear by James Curran (327.94051 CUR)
August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan by Andrew Quilty (958.1 QUI)
Lohrey: contemporary Australian writers by Julieanne Lamond (A 823.4 LOH.L)
Nowhere to hide: a memoir of football, mental health and resilience by Tom Boyd (796.336092 BOY)
Melbourne on film: cinema that defines our city (791.4309945 TSI)
The boy from Boomerang crescent by Eddie Betts (796.336092 BET.C)
Putin: his life and times by Philip Short (947.0862092 PUT.S)
Motherlands: in search of our inherited cities by Amaryllis Gacioppo (640.19 GAC)
Ultimate cycling trips Australia by Andrew Bain (919.4 BAI)
Explore Australia 2023: Essential travel guide (919.40472 EXP)
Movement: how to take back our streets and transform our lives by Thalia Verkade (388.410941 VER)