Night Fishing: Stingrays, Goya and the Singular Life by Vicki Hastrich - a memoir of sorts, this collection of breathtakingly original essays is one of the best and least well-known Australian works of recent years. Moving through the author’s childhood and family, grief, love and solitude – and her spellbinding twin obsessions with visual art and the natural world – it’s simply stunning. I always say Hastrich is like an antipodean Annie Dillard: intellect, artistry, humanity all coming together in the sharpest, most beautiful prose.