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My Darlinghurst

Edited by Anna Clark, Tamson Pietsch, Gabrielle Kemmis

Leading historians, writers and residents explore the unique and the everyday of Darlinghurst, contemplating its place in Gadigal, Sydney and Australian history.

9781742238012

Reading the Rooms

Edited by Rachel Franks, Richard Neville

The incredible painting collection of the State Library of New South Wales is documented for the first time.

9781742236698

Sydney Brutalism

Sydney has some of the world’s best examples of brutalist architecture. Design writer Heidi Dokulil explores these brutal beauties.

9781742238050

Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood

Interested in birds but don’t know where to start? Overwhelmed by the bird guides? Want to know more about the birds you see around you? Then this is the book for you!

9781742237879

Saving Lieutenant Kennedy

The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president.

9781742238005

The Best Australian Science Writing 2023

Edited by Donna Lu

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

9781742237589

Rogue Corporations

Quentin Beresford

Award-winning author Quentin Beresford investigates Australia’s corporate Australia’s highest-profile scandals.

9781761170065

Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain

Mrs Kristen Alexander

Jack Kennedy (Sydney), Stuart Walch (Hobart), Dick Glyde (Perth), Ken Holland (Sydney), Pat Hughes (Cooma and Sydney), Bill Millington (Adelaide), John Crossman (Newcastle) and Des Sheen (Canberra): eight Australian Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of the Battle of Britain. Only one survived.

9781742238142

2024 Australasian Sky Guide

All you need to know about the night sky.

9781742237817

James O’Hanlon takes us to all corners of the globe (and even outer space) to explore spiders and show us why they’re not so scary after all.

9781742238074

Dr Rip’s Essential Beach Book

Australia’s leading beach scientist shares everything you need to know about how beaches work and how to swim safely, with examples from Australia and across the globe.

9781742238128

Mavis Kerinaiua, Laura Rademaker

Tiwi Story showcases stories of resilience, creativity and survival as told by the Tiwi people.

The Chipilly Six

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

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.

9781742238111

Everything You Need to Know about the Voice

Megan Davis, George Williams

Australians will soon be faced with an important choice. Will they vote Yes to change our nation’s Constitution to introduce an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice? Or will they vote No and bring the recognition process to a halt and, along with it, the aspirations of an overwhelming number of Australia’s first peoples? The stakes could not be higher.

9781742238067

Border Crossings: My Journey as an Outsider

Mohammad Chowdhury

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.

9781742237541

Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home

Sam Twyford-Moore

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.

Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires

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.

The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium

Prudence Gibson

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

Revealing Secrets: An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence & the advent of cyber

Clare Birgin, John Blaxland

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

Bhutan to Blacktown

Om Dhungel, with James Button

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.

Dispatch from Berlin, 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything

Anthony Cooper, with Thorsten Perl

Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution

Edited by Michelle Arrow

The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis, 2019-2022

Edited by Michelle Grattan, Brendan McCaffrie, Chris Wallace

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

9781742237664

Underground Lovers: Encounters with Fungi

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.

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The Briefest English Grammar and Punctuation Guide Ever!

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

9781742237329

Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy

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

9781742237497

Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers

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

9781742236230

Born of Fire and Ash: Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999–2000

Craig Stockings

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.

9781742237831

Voices of us: The independents’ movement transforming Australian democracy

Australian politics is changing. Voices of us looks towards the future with hope and ideas.

9781742237763

Alphabetical Sydney: 10th anniversary edition

Antonia Pesenti, Hilary Bell

Alphabetical Sydney turns ten!

9781742235929

Sydney: A Biography

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.

9781742237572

Documents on Australian Foreign Policy

Edited by Bruce Hunt, Stephen Henningham

9781742237794

Sydney Harbour: A History, new edition

Award-winning historian Ian Hoskins revisits Sydney’s glittering harbour and the people who inhabited and shaped it in this updated edition.

9781742237640

The Best Australian Science Writing 2022

Edited by Ivy Shih

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

9781742237770

Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero, new edition

Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements

An epic story of resistance, suffering and survival. Tongerlongeter resurrects a once-in-a-generation leader all Australians can admire.