Blood-pumping, outstanding, urgent and essential: the best Australian books out in April

Unsettled by Kate Grenville Nonfiction, Black Inc, $36.99 Illustration: Black Inc Books Twenty years after she fictionalised her ex-convict great-great-great-grandfather Solomon Wiseman in The Secret River, speculating he took part in killing Dharug people, Grenville makes a pilgrimage through the landscape of northern New South Wales to better understand more than two centuries of suffering by Indigenous people dispossessed by colonisation. Moments of profound clarity ensue in Unsettled: looking down on Mogo Creek to the Hawkesbury River’s north, Grenville’s imagination tracks her great-great uncles riding horseback armed with guns. “In the great humming silence of this landscape – a silence

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