UNSW Press

The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales – its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.

Om Dhungel was forced to flee Bhutan as a refugee, eventually arriving in Australia — this traumatic upheaval brought a surprising blessing: what Om learned about life when he lost everything except life itself.

This unofficial account of Australian Signals intelligence reveals the organisation’s efforts to reveal the secrets of others.

Leading thinkers on the policies and leadership of the Morrison Government from 2019 to 2022

Underground Lovers brings us down to earth, magnifier in hand, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain.

The Briefest English Grammar and Punctuation Guide Ever! is the bestselling book that will teach you all the basics of using the English language.

Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.

Everywhen is a ground-breaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history.

In 1941, the paper emperors of the newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years — thanks to shrewd and ruthless behaviour from members of the Murdoch, Packer and Fairfax families and other key players — they grew into media monsters.

Border Crossings takes you on a thrilling ride from the city of minarets to the heights of picture-perfect skyscrapers – a journey of finding one’s own identity and a place where you truly belong.

Cast Mates — starring Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, David Gulpilil and Nicole Kidman — uncovers the long history of Australian actors in cinema at home and abroad.

In late 2023 Australians will vote in a referendum on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to parliament and government in the Constitution. What benefits will the Voice bring? And what was the journey to this point?

Back Up unearths the causes of back pain, the ways we try (and fail) to treat it, and the new science that might hold a cure.

This is the remarkable war story of six ordinary Australian soldiers: the Chipilly Six.

The remarkable story of Howard Florey and Mark Oliphant, two Australian scientists who played a vital role in the Allied victory in the Second World War and changed the course of history.

World-renowned epidemiologist and biosecurity expert Raina MacIntyre reveals her insights into biological warfare, pandemics and the threats that lie ahead.

A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected historians.

Acclaimed playwright and author, Louis Nowra – author of Kings Cross and Woolloomooloo – expands his gaze to explore the energy, beauty, vulgarity, dynamism and pulsating sense of self-importance of his adopted city, Sydney.

The annual collection – now in its twelfth year – celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.

Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.

Peter Doyle – author of City of Shadows and Crooks Like Us – draws from forensic records and the private papers of detective Brian Doyle (the most famous cop of the day and Peter’s uncle), to explore the criminal underbelly of mid-20th century Sydney.

Not all Australian bushrangers were white men, and not all were seen in a glowing light in their own time — historian Meg Foster reveals the stories of bushrangers who didn’t fit the mould.

The first volume in the landmark Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor, Born of Fire and Ash is an honest, challenging and compelling account of the 1999–2000 East Timor crisis and Australia’s response to it.

Underground Lovers brings us down to earth, magnifier in hand, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain.

Exquisitely written, Eda Gunaydin’s essays unsettle neat descriptions of inheritance, belonging and place.

Winner, NSW Premier’s History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize

The first book published on acclaimed Australian architect Andrew Andersons, written by well-known arts administrators Leon Paroissien and Bernice Murphy.

*WINNER of the 2020 Colin Roderick Award* *Longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize*

WINNER of the Nonfiction Award 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature

'I'm going plastic free next month, who wants to join me?'

Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards  Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction

WINNER of the Australian Book Design Awards 2020  Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover

'At both ends of the world, I have found confusion and profound disagreement about how to read the story of the past, about who should write or speak it, and what parts of it should be written or spoken about at all.'

*Winner of the Australian History Prize in the NSW Premier's History Awards 2020*

World-renowned epidemiologist and biosecurity expert Raina MacIntyre reveals her insights into biological warfare, pandemics and the threats that lie ahead.

Winner, NSW Premier’s History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize

SHORTLISTED for Australian Book Design Awards 2020  Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover

The story of the complex and crucial relationship between Australia and China, charting the highs and lows through the prism of the prime ministers who have handled relations with Beijing since Whitlam in 1972.

Exquisitely written, Eda Gunaydin’s essays unsettle neat descriptions of inheritance, belonging and place.