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The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world [Book Club Set]
Are trees social beings? The author of this book convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with the...
Murder on Easey Street : Melbourne's most notorious cold case [Book Club Set]
One summer night in January 1977, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were savagely murdered in their house onEaseyStreet, Collingwood - stabbed multiple times while Suzanne's sixteen-month-old baby slept in the next room. Although police established a list of 130 'persons of interest', ...
The pleasures of leisure [Book Club Set]
In today's crazily busy world the importance of making time for leisure is more vital than ever. In a world where time is money, what is the value of walking without purpose, socialising without networking, nesting when we could be on our laptops?
Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race [Book Club Set]
In 2014, award-wining journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote on her blog about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. Her words hit a nerve. The post went viral and comments flooded in from others desperate to ...
Talking to my country [Book Club Set]
In July 2015, as the debate over Adam Goodes being booed at AFL games raged and got ever more heated and ugly, Stan Grant wrote a short but powerful piece for The Guardian that went viral, not only in Australia but right around the world, shared over 100,000 times on social media. His was a perso...
Certain admissions : a beach, a body and a lifetime of secrets [Book Club Set]
Who killed Beth Williams? On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at Melbourne's Flinders Street railway station and decided upon a spontaneous night on the town. The next morning, one of them, twenty-year-old typist Beth Williams, was found dead on Mid...