New titles for June 2021
FICTION
Night blue by Angela O'Keeffe (F OKE)
Whereabouts by Jhumpi Lahiri (F LAH)
Lean, fall, stand by Jon McGregor (F MCG)
The rain heron by Robbie Arnott (F ARN)
At the edge of the solid world by Daniel Davis Wood (F WOO)
True crime story: a novel by Joseph Knox (F KNO)
Small acts of defiance by Michelle Wright (F WRI)
The other half of you by Michael Mohammed Ahmad (F AHM)
We were not men by Campbell Mattinson (F MAT)
Pieta by Michael FitzGerald (F FIT)
The last bookshop in London by Madeline Martin (F MAR)
The republic of false truths by Alaa Al Aswani (892.737 ASW)
Echolalia by Briohny Doyle (F DOY)
One hundred days by Alice Pung (F PUN)
Secrets of happiness by Joan Silber (F SIL)
The fifth season by Philip Salom (F SAL)
Fault lines by Emily Itami (F ITA)
The tulip tree by Suzanne McCourt (F MCC)
Two steps onward by Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist (F SIM)
NONFICTION
Racism: stories on fear, hate & bigotry by Winnie Dunn (305.800994 DUN)
Remember: the science of memory and the art of forgetting by Lisa Genova (153.12 GEN)
China room by P.C. Kuo (915.103 KUO)
Still alive: notes from Australia's immigration detention system by Safdar Ahmed (325.210994 AHM)
Reading like an Australian writer by Belinda Castles (A808.02 CAS)
You lose yourself you reappear: the many voices of Bob Dylan (782.42164 DYL.M)
Lovers and others by Tom Lowenstein (700 LOW)
Mine!: how the hidden rules of ownership control our lives by Michael Heller (346.04 HEL)
Dog songs by Mary Oliver (811.54 OLI)
Whisper songs by Tony BIrch (821.92 BIR)
King Richard, Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy by Michael Dobbs (973.924 NIX.D)
Street art, public city: law, crime and the urban imagination by Alison Young (701.03 YOU)
Education of an idealist by Samantha Power (327.2092 POW)
After the fall: being American in the world we've made by Benjamin Rhodes (909.831 RHO)
Australia at the Venice Biennale (709.94 GAR)
House of Kwa by Mimi Kwa (070.92 KWA)
Noise: a flaw in human judgment by Daniel Kahneman (153.83 KAH)
Real estate by Deborah Levy (824.914 LEV)
Belonging: the ancient code of togetherness by Owen Eastwood (302 EAS)
The ghost in the garden: in search of Darwin's lost garden by Jude Piesse (576.82092 DAR.P)
Three men in a boat: to say nothing of the dog! by Jerome K. Jerome (823.8 JER)
Self contained: scenes from a single life by Emma John (306.8153 JOH)
Philip Roth: the biography by Blake Bailey (813.54 ROT.B)
MELMO: Modernist Architecture in Melbourne by Robin Grow (724.6099451 GRO)
Fully human: a new way of using your mind by Steve Biddulph (155.2 BID)
Losing our minds: what mental illness really is - and what it isn't by Lucy Foulkes (616.89 FOU)
The Penguin book of feminist writing by Hannah Dawson (305.42 DAW)
Letters to Camondo by Edmund De Waal (707.5 DEW)
The practice of not thinking: a guide to mindful living by Ryunosuke Koike (158.13 KOI)
In my defence, I have no defence: catastrophes in pursing perfection by Sinead Stubbins (305.4 STU)
The broken house: growing up under Hitler by Horst Kruger (940.5318 KRU)
Who gets to be smart: privilege, power and knowledge by Bri Lee (305.552 LEE)
Languages of truth: essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie (824.92 RUS)
China panic: Australia's alternative to paranoia and pandering by David Brophy (327.9405 BRO)