InThe Best Australian Essays 2015, Geordie Williamson compiles the year's outstanding short non-fiction. Read Helen Garner on condescension, DBC Pierre on travel, Ceridwen Dovey on autobiography, Tim Winton on injury, Anna Krien on first love, and Nicolas Rothwell on the northern coast. InThe Best Australian Essays 2015, Geordie Williamson compiles the year's outstanding short non-fiction. Read Helen Garner on condescension, DBC Pierre on travel, Ceridwen Dovey on autobiography, Tim Winton on injury, Anna Krien on first love, and Nicolas Rothwell on the northern coast. With bracing essays on politics, music, literature, history, art, sport and more, this impressive anthology will entrance, stimulate and entertain. Sebastian SmeeConfronting the Unthinkable in Goya's Art .Anwen CrawfordThe World Needs Female Rock Critics .Maria TumarkinNo Dogs, No Fruit, No Firearms, No Professors .Tim FlanneryHow You Consist of Trillions of Tiny Machines .Nadia Wheatley Belsen .James BradleyStrange Weather .Tim WintonHavoc .Gerard ElsonBibliomancer .Rebecca GiggsOpen Ground .Alison CroggonTrigger Warning .Mungo MacCallum Malcolm Fraser .Sophie CunninghamStaying With the Trouble .Jeff SparrowRe-reading the Famous Five and Biggles .Nicolas RothwellThe Northern Wilds .Karen HitchcockToo Many Pills .Tegan Bennett DaylightFully Present, Utterly Connected .Drusilla Modjeska The Informed Imagination .Noel PearsonRemote Control .Delia FalconerSeven Poor Men of Sydney .Kirsten TranterGo, Little Book .Stephen RomeiAn Uneasy Masterpiece .Helen GarnerThe Insults of Age .Anna KrienMy Granny's Last Wish .Guy RundleL'etat, C'est Charlie .Ceridwen DoveyThe Pencil and the Damage Done .Matthew LambThe Meeting that Never Was .Ashley HayMirror Rim .Christian RyanThe Thirty-ninth Summer of DK Lillee .David WalshSkin in the Game .Mark MordueThe Library of Shadows .Felicity PlunkettSound Bridges .DBC PierreLeaving Ourselves at Home 'Wonky, idiosyncratic, fragmentary, paradoxical, drunk on words, the essay has... a uniquely human thumbprint.' Geordie Williamson