New books for October 2021

FICTION

Shadow house by Anna Downes (F DOW)

Beautiful world where are you by Sally Rooney (F ROO)

Slow fire burning by Paula Hawkins (F HAW)

Snow country by Sebastian Faulks (F FAU)

Sweetest fruits by Monique Truong (F TRU)

Travelling companions by Antoni Jach (F JAC)

The women of Troy by Pat Barker (F BAR)

Apples never fall by Lianne Moriarty (F MOR)

The cat who saved books by Sosuke Natsukawa (F NAT)

Corporal Hitlers pistol by Tom Keneally (A 823.3 KEN)

The fortune men by Nadifa Mohamed (F MOH)

The great forest: the rare beauty of the Victorian central highlands by David Lindenmayer (583.76609945 LIN)

I shot the devil by Ruth McIver (F MCI)

In moonland by Miles Allinson (F ALL)

An island by Karen Jennings (F JEN)

The magician by Colm Toibin (F TOI)

More than I love my life by David Grossman (F GRO)

A passage north by Anuk Arudpragasam (F ARU)

NONFICTION

This much is true by Miriam Margolyes (791.43028 MAR)

Underground: marsupial outlaws and other rebels of Australia's war in Vietnam by Mirranda Burton (741.5994 BUR)

A (very) short history of life on earth: 4.6 billion years in 12 chapters by Henry Gee (576.83 GEE)

What's eating the universe and other cosmic questions by Paul Davies (523.1 DAV)

Accidental Prime Minister by Annika Smethurst (994.0722 MOR.S)

Currowan: the story of fire and the community during Australia's worst summer by Bronwyn Adcock (363.3790994 ADC)

The dawn of language: how we came to talk by Sverker Johansson (401 JOH)

Funkytown by Paul Kennedy (994.51 KEN)

Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir (843.912 DEB)

My friend fox: a memoir by Heidi Everett (616.85210092 EVE)

My remarkable journey by Joylette Hylick (510.92 JOH)

The Nazis knew my name: a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz by Magda Hellinger (940.5318 HEL)

Open minds: academic freedom and freedom of speech of Australia by Carolyn Evans (378.12130994 EVA)

Our sunburnt country by Anika Molesworth (363.80994 MOL)

Peril by Bob Woodward (973.933 WOO)

Recovery: how we can create a better, brighter future after a crisis by Andrew Wear (303.4850994 WEA)

Dear son: letters and reflections from First Nations fathers and sons by Thomas Mayor (305.89915 MAY)

Earth detox: how and why we must clean up our planet by Julian Cribb (363.736 CRI)

Art of more how mathematics created civilisation by Michael Brooks (510.9 BRO)

Broken: children, parents and the family courts by Camilla Nelson (346.94015 NEL)