In this ingeniously meandering meditation, Geoff Dyer examines the later achievements of writers, artists, athletes and musicians, and relates them to his own experiences of life. It's a unique blend of memoir, criticism and reflection, always joyful and entertaining, always profound and thoughtful. A worthy and enjoyable addition to his important collection of work.

Hugh Brody, the anthropologist, writer and film-maker, grew up in England in a Jewish household. He was born in 1943, but didn't learn the significance of Judaism or his family's losses during the Holocaust until he was an adult. In this lyrical memoir he uncovers the family history movingly, and it powerfully informs his later work in the Canadian Arctic working on behalf of the dispossessed Inuit of that region. It's a beautiful and thoughtful book, evocative of both landscape and family.

Remy Ngamije is a Rwandan-born Namibian writer, and founder of Doek Literary Magazine, a prominent online journal of African writing. In this somewhat picaresque novel he explores family, migration, race and identity through the exploits of Seraphin and his friends who are studying law at a university in Cape Town. Set over a year, with regular flashbacks to his and other character's pasts, the novel builds a portrait of a continent struggling to shake off its colonial and racist past.

In Terra Nullius, Lindqvist, the Swedish intellectual and writer, travels from Adelaide to Darwin and around the coast to Perth and back to Adelaide, reporting on the racism and cultural genocide visited upon the Aboriginal people by white settlers. Even if you know something of this, it's a shocking book, original, detailed, starkly polemical, and angry. He has read widely and well, and combines written history with his own observations and conversations. A quite outstanding book.

This is a shocking memoir which exposes a well known literary family's dark and conflicted past, and how different versions of the same events can exist in the different memories of the family members. It's a brilliant piece of writing, entertaining, erudite, moving and funny, extraordinarily honest and powerful.

In this grim, unsettling and shocking book, Miles Bredin, a British journalist based in Kenya, attempts to travel by train from Angola to Mozambique. He finds this largely impossible due to political corruption, civil war, poverty, and neglect of the infrastructure, and paints a portrait of continent in agony, caused largely by Western duplicity and corrupt local leaders. The truly disturbing aspect of reading this book 30 years after it was written is to reflect on how little has changed in the countries he travels through. It's an insightful, disturbing and provocative book.