With so many heading to the beach, Tim Winton's republished classic, Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir (Hamish Hamilton, $29.95), is custom-made for a beach holiday, a perfect book to create a mood of reflection about the ocean and how it figures in Australian lives. First published in 1993 and reprinted in a lovely slim volume, the book has lost none of its relevance.
Collections of stories and essays are perfect for holidays – books you can dip in and out of with a shortened attention span. This year the popular Girls' Night In series celebrates its 10th anniversary with a terrific collection of 60 stories that brings together some top-notch names like Marian Keyes, Candace Bushnell, and Cathy Kelly. This series has raised more than $3 million for the War Child charity over the years, so all that entertainment comes with the good feeling of donating to charity.
The very funny Nora Ephron amuses in her usual gritty way with her collection of random writings, I Remember Nothing (Black Swan, $24.95), while the much heftier The Penguin Book of the Ocean, edited by James Bradley (Hamish Hamilton, $35) follows the theme of the ocean with a magnificent collection of writings, both fiction and non-fiction, that include greats such as Ernest Hemingway, Rachel Carson, Ernest Shackleton, Jacques Cousteau, David Malouf and Joseph Conrad. It's a very impressive anthology.
The Best Australian Essays 2010, edited by Robert Drewe (Black Inc, $29.95), takes the nation's temperature with some great writers and thinkers writing about Australian matters during 2010. Contributors include Clive James, Tim Flannery, Carmel Bird and David Malouf. Likewise, The Best Australian Stories, edited by Cate Kennedy (Black Inc, $29.95), showcases the state of Australian fiction with short stories from writers both known and unknown, including Nam Le, Chris Womersley, Karen Hitchcock and Antonia Baldo.
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