New Non-Fiction – January 2015

• Absolutely beautiful things :  a bright and colourful life by Anna Spiro
• The best place to be today :365 things to do and the perfect day to do them edited by Sarah Baxter
• The bush by Don Watson
• Blood will out : the true story of a murder , a mystery, and a masquerade by Kim Walter
• Dessert divas by Christine Mansfield
• Diet cults : the surprising fallacy at the core of nutrition fads and a guide to healthy eating for the rest of us by Matt Fitzgerald
• Do travel writers go to hell? a swashbuckling tale of high adventure, questionable ethics and professional hedonism by Thomas Kohnstamm
• Ebola : the natural and human history by David Quammen
• The forbidden worlds of Haruki Murakami by Matthew Carl Strecher
• Hand to mouth : the truth about being poor in a wealthy world by Linda Tirado
• Holiday at home by Jason Grant
• Hope in a ballet shoe by Michaela De Prince
• How to think about exercise by Damon Young
• Immunity : an inoculation by Eula Biss
• Jealousy by Peter Toohey
• Jeff Koons : Conversations with Norman Rosenthal by Jeff Koons
• Melbourne & Victoria edited by Anthony Ham
• Mug cakes : soft melting cakes ready in 5 minutes
• Not that kind of girl : a young woman tells you what she’s “learned” by Lena Dunham
• On the new by Boris Groys
• Once upon a time : a short history of fairy tale by Marina Warner
• Only in New York by Lily Brett
• The queen, her lover and the most notorious spy in history by Roland Perry
• Read this if you want to take great photographs by Henry Carroll
• Refugees : why seeking asylum is legal and Australia’s policies are not by Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong
• Rookie yearbook three edited by Tavi Gevinson
• Superfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Things to make and do in the fourth dimension by Matt Parker
• Think like a freak : how to think smarter about almost anything by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Vivienne Westwood by Vivienne Westwood
• Ways of looking : how to experience contemporary art by Ossian Ward
• What days are for by Robert Dessaix
• Where I’m reading from  by Tim Parks
• Women in clothes by Sheila Heti
• Women in dark times by Jacqueline Rose
• Working on my novel by Cory Arcangel
• The world : a traveller’s guide to the planet by Penny Cordner
• Yes please by Amy Poehler