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9781742238159
Making Picture Books

Libby Gleeson

October 2025
An essential guide to making picture books for writers and illustrators from award-winning writer Libby Gleeson.
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9781742237930
Walking Sydney: Fifteen walks with a city’s writers
Belinda Castles
September 2025
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9781761170409
Living Greatly in the Law: Hal Wootten’s selected writings
Edited by David Dixon, Andrew Lynch
September 2025
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9781761170164
Plain Life: On thinking, feeling and deciding

Antonia Pont

August 2025
Antonia Pont’s Plain Life presents a series of essays that think through central ideas of happiness, rest and relaxation, talking and allowing for silence, community and leadership.
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9781761170300
Deep History: Country and Sovereignty

Edited by Ann McGrath, Jackie Huggins

July 2025
In Deep History: Country and Sovereignty, edited by Jackie Huggins and Ann McGrath, leading historians and thinkers explore the First Nations histories of caring for places and people over millennia.
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9781761170416
Honour's Mimic

Charmian Clift, afterword by Nadia Wheatley

June 2025
Honour’s Mimic combines the authentic Greek setting of Charmian Clift’s travel memoirs with the fine writing that has caused her to be described as Australia’s greatest essayist.
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9781761170058
Vaccine Nation: Science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress

Raina MacIntyre

May 2025
A gripping journey through the past, present and future of vaccines.
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9781742237503
Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970

Jacqueline Kent

May 2025
Acclaimed biographer Jacqueline Kent traces the social and political issues that inspired – and often hampered – Australian radical women writers and their desire to change the world.
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9781761170294
The Power of Choice

Julian Kingma

May 2025
In The Power of Choice, award-winning photographer Julian Kingma turns his camera on those who choose assisted dying, and those who help them on their final journey. These intimate portraits, along with essays from Andrew Denton and Richard Flanagan, invite us to ask, perhaps for the first time, what makes a good death.
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9781761170287
Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family

Micaela Sahhar

May 2025
Fixing its gaze on moments, places and objects – from the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem – Find me at the Jaffa Gate assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora, returning to the origins of violence in the Nakba.
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9781761170027
Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45

Joan Beaumont

April 2025
Acclaimed historian Joan Beaumont tells the story of Gull Force, the soldiers who were held as prisoners of war by the Japanese on Ambon and Hainan during the Second World War.
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9781761170188
How to be a (fantastic sensational) good enough kid

Alice Peel with illustrations by Beck Feiner

April 2025
How to be a (fantastic sensational) good enough kid is the ultimate guide for kids and parents to discover that feeling ‘good enough’ is already within our reach.
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9781742238029
Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844

Stephen Gapps

April 2025
The award-winning author of The Sydney Wars reveals the breadth of frontier resistance warfare
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9781761170201
Great at Heart: Gavin Merrick Long, Australia’s official Second World War historian

Garry Hills

April 2025
Great at Heart is the first life story of war correspondent, editor and principal author of the official history of the Second World War, Gavin Long.
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9781761170010
Human/Nature: On life in a wild world

Jane Rawson

April 2025
A lyrical work of creative nonfiction, Human/Nature is an exploration of how and why we think about the natural world the way we do.
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Funga Obscura: Photo journeys among fungi

Alison Pouliot

March 2025
A visual love letter, in Funga Obscura ecologist Alison Pouliot brings guides us through the forrest to share stunning photographs and writing on fungi across Australia and the globe.
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9781742238227
The Bee Squad: Boosting biodiversity in your neighbourhood

Judy Friedlander

February 2025
The Bee Squad is jam-packed with fun adventures and hands-on projects to help kids boost biodiversity in their neighbourhood.
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9781761170072
Land Back: Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales, today and always

Edited by Heidi Norman

February 2025
Land Back tells the story of the work that has been done, and is yet to be done, to get land back.
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9781761170249
James Fairfax: Portrait of a collector in eleven objects

Alexander Edward Gilly

December 2024
This evocative new biography of James Fairfax – businessman, philanthropist, collector and champion of Australian art – from his nephew, Alexander Gilly, pieces together Fairfax’s life through the prism of his collection.
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9781742238036
Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst corner

Alana Piper

December 2024
Gadigal country, Woolloomooloo Farm, Riley Estate, Burdekin’s paddock, Burlington Picture Palace, First Church of Christ Scientist, party mansion, Yirranma Place – the many transformations of 262 Liverpool Street Darlinghurst reflect the long and layered history of Sydney.
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9781761170331
Remember When … Snapshots of Australia from the ’50s to the ’90s

Bob Byrne

December 2024
Remember When … Snapshots of Australia from the ’50s to ’90s is a photographic trip down memory lane, celebrating the people, places, events and experiences that shaped our nation in the second half of the 20th century.
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9781742236926
Imagining a Real Australia

Stephen Zagala

December 2024
A captivating account of Australian documentary photography at its height including the photographs of Max Dupain, Carol Jerrems, William Yang, Rennie Ellis, David Moore, Mervyn Bishop, Sue Ford and others.
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9781761170140
Beyond The Broken Years: Australian military history in 1000 books

Peter Stanley

November 2024
Leading historian Peter Stanley traces the history of Australia’s military history in 1000 books that reveal the many facets of our continuing fascination with our military past.
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9781761170157
The Best Australian Science Writing 2024

Edited by Jackson Ryan, Carl Smith, foreword by Corey Tutt

November 2024
The annual collection – now in its fourteenth year – celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.
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9781761170270
Swimming Sydney: A tale of 52 swims

Chris Baker

November 2024
In a love letter to the swimming spots of Sydney, Chris Baker takes 52 swims in and around Sydney over the course of a calendar year.
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9781742238104
Why Are We Like This?: An evolutionary search for answers to life's big questions

Zoe Kean

November 2024
An exhilarating scientific journey, Why Are We Like This? takes us behind the scenes of the evolutionary paradoxes that make up life on this planet.
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9781742237039
marramarra: Indigenous artists making history visible

Brook Garru Andrew, Jessica Neath

November 2024
marramarra highlights contemporary Indigenous art from across the planet and how artists and their communities are providing truth-telling about the past and inspiration to imagine better futures.
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9781742237909
Australia in 100 Words

Dr Amanda Laugesen

October 2024
Captivating and quirky, Australia in 100 Words takes readers chronologically through Australian history to tell a unique story through language
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9781742237619
Take Flight: Incredible stories of Australian women who reach for the sky

Kathy Mexted

October 2024
From balancing on a wing tip to paragliding with an eagle, Take Flight tells the stories of Australian women who have leapt, tumbled and dived, and reached for the stars.
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9781761170225
2025 Australasian Sky Guide

Nick Lomb

October 2024
The ultimate guide to the night sky in 2025
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9781761170133
Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race

Steven Hamilton, Richard Holden

October 2024
In many ways, Australia handled the COVID-19 pandemic as well as any country in the world – but what did we get wrong?
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9781761170324
Sydney: A biography Updated edition

Louis Nowra

October 2024
Acclaimed playwright and author, Louis Nowra explores the energy, beauty, vulgarity, dynamism and pulsating sense of self-importance of his adopted city, Sydney.
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9781742237824
The Family History Book: How to trace your ancestors in Australia

Cassie Gilmartin, Shaun Gilmartin

October 2024
The definitive guide to researching family history in Australia.
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9781761170317
Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm New edition

Alan Atkinson

October 2024
An award-winning and landmark joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected historians.
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9781742237138
The Badge We Wear: A history of sport at UNSW Sydney

Anthony Hughes

October 2024
The Badge We Wear tells the important history of sport at UNSW.
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9781742238135
Travelling to Tomorrow: The modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America

Yves Rees

September 2024
Yves Rees rewrites the story of Australian–US relations by spotlighting ten trailblazing women whose extraordinary lives have largely been forgotten.
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