This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Essays and selects the cream of the crop. These are the pieces that have captured key events – from September 11 to Victoria’s fires – changed the way we see the nation, for good or ill – from Anzac Day to Palm Island – investigated intriguing figures – from Oskar Schindler to Charles Darwin – or which simply represent a peak of the writer’s art.
This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Essays and selects the cream of the crop. These are the pieces that have captured key events – from September 11 to Victoria’s fires – changed the way we see the nation, for good or ill – from Anzac Day to Palm Island – investigated intriguing figures – from Oskar Schindler to Charles Darwin – or which simply represent a peak of the writer’s art.