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The Umbrella Club by David Brooks
Category: Fiction
During World War I a friendship is forged on the battlefields of France between Axel and Edward, two young Englishmen. There, inspired by barrage balloons, they develop a mutual fascination that will change the course of their lives. After the war, as Axel's passion for flight and freedom consumes him, ...Show more
The Wanarn Painters of Place and Time: Old Age Travels in the Tjukurrpa by David Brooks
Category: Art
This exquisite art book contains the precious story and transformative work of celebrated artists now living in an aged care facility in Ngaanyatjarra country, a remote and isolated community that is the centre of their abundant world amongst ancient Dreamings. Understanding of these paintings remains o ...Show more
Turin: Approaching Animals by David Brooks
Category: Nature
'Our lives with non-human animals are characterised by a kind of unremitting contempt. Habits of life, traditions of thought, and failures of imagination have rendered us blind to their invitations to companionship within a shared world. And philosophy, alas, has offered little to assuage our moral inco ...Show more