Review
Twenty million shows and counting: The remarkable story of the BBC at 100
David Hendy marks the centenary of the BBC with a comprehensive history that offers some warnings for our own ABC.
- by Bridget Griffen-Foley
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Shocking crimes and Minnie Driver’s eye-opening memoir: Top books to read next
Sally Piper’s exquisitely written novel Bone Memories and the Good Will Hunting actor’s comic essays lead this week’s wrap of new reviews.
- by Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
There’s much we can still learn from these 12 life-changing experiments
The Matter of Everything looks at a series of breakthroughs to discover what else we can learn from the course of scientific progress.
- by Bianca Nogrady
Mad Max meets Wake in Fright in bestselling author’s cracking new thriller
With its echoes of Wake in Fright and Mad Max, Adrian McKinty’s The Island is a gothic nightmare about one family’s breathless battle for survival.
- by Sue Turnbull
Stories of lost souls, reality TV and anonymous sex make for vivid reading
Paul Dalla Rosa’s first collection of stories, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, has been eagerly anticipated.
- by Jack Cameron Stanton
An octopus cracks a cold case? Mystery and magical fantasy books to read next
Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Marvellers lead our wrap of fiction and non-fiction review this week.
- by Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
This creative and well-timed read will make you believe in a better world
Comics journalist Sam Wallman’s new graphic novel, Our Members be Unlimited, articulates the appeal of collective union action.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Reading this dazzling book is like ‘quaffing the finest champagne on earth’
Charmian Clift is the greatest essayist this country has produced, letting us discover the magic of words that tingle with feeling.
- by Peter Craven
Welcome to Australia, enemy aliens ... but you can’t fight in the war
Many so-called enemy aliens signed up to serve in the army in the war, but the Australian authorities didn’t trust them to fight.
- by Michael McGirr
Poems that make you think about today’s world and tomorrow’s bequest
Two new collections have parenting at their core, along with questions of what we leave for future generations.
- by Broede Carmody
A smart page-turner and an ABC reporter’s powerful memoir: what to read next
Louise O’Neill’s compulsively readable thriller Idol and Mawunyo Gbogbo’s Hip Hop & Hymns lead our round-up of new book reviews.
- by Steven Carroll and Cameron Woodhead