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“Helen Garner went to the trial of a man in Australia who stood accused of murdering his sons by driving his car into a dam. He claimed he’d blacked out and that it was an accident, but he was charged with having deliberately killed his children in an act of anger and revenge. Garner documents the trial in great detail, but she’s also documenting the shifting currents of her own feelings about the case, about the man on trial, about his family, his marriage. She seems to almost uncannily intuit the changing moods in the courtroom. It’s very rigorous and very moving.” Read more...
The Best Historical Nonfiction Books
Kate Summerscale, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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The Living Mountain
by Nan Shepherd -
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
by Laurie Lee -
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
by Christopher Clark -
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
by Nandini Das
