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9781761170379

The House of Blue Glass

Acclaimed historian Alan Atkinson pieces together the life of Penelope Lucas, the first professionally qualified woman to emigrate from Europe to Australia.

9781761170638

In Raven Mother, Jane Messer weaves together her Jewish family’s compelling and tragic story – stretching back and forth between Berlin, Israel, Palestine, Melbourne and Sydney.

9781761170515

A People's Guide to the Australian Constitution

Rosalind Dixon, William Partlett

Leading legal academics Rosalind Dixon and Will Partlett bring the Australian Constitution and its importance vividly to life.

9781761170713

The Library That Made Me: 200 Years of the State Library of NSW

Edited by Richard Neville, Phillipa McGuinness

A love letter to libraries everywhere.

9781761170560

Urban Pest Management in Australia New Edition

Ion Staunton, Phillip Hadlington, John Gerozisis

A new fully updated edition of the major reference work for Australian pest control operators.

Speak Up: How to be a confident presenter and media spokesperson

Speak Up: How to be a confident presenter and media spokesperson

Whatever your role, this easy-to-use guide will inspire you to step up to the microphone, tell your story and make an impact.

9781761170737

The First Albanese Government: Governing in an age of disruption and division, 2022–2025

Edited by Michelle Grattan, John Halligan, John Hawkins

Australia’s leading voices on politics and policy examine the first Albanese Government from 2022 to 2025.

9781761170119

Looking from the North: Australian history from the top down

Acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds turns Australian history on its axis in a ground-breaking exploration of how colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn was very different to the southern states.

9781742237800

Heart of Ice: A journey into Antarctica’s frozen realm

Acclaimed writer Joy McCann takes the reader on a compelling journey, navigating entangled stories of ice and rock, humans, animals and other species, through the prism of Antarctica’s ice.

9781761170553

PIX: The Magazine that told Australia's Story

The magazine that shocked, entertained and informed Australians like never before is celebrated in a new book.

9781761170171

Liars, cheats and copycats: Trickery and deception in nature

Popular science writer James O’Hanlon introduces readers to a smorgasbord of creatures who use disguise, camouflage, mimicry and misdirection to beat their predators.

9781761170508

The Best Australian Science Writing 2025

Edited by Zoe Kean, Tegan Taylor, foreword by Veena Sahajwalla

This much-loved anthology – now in its fifteenth year – selects the most riveting, entertaining, poignant and fascinating stories from Australian writers, poets and scientists.

9781761170492

Vision and Hope: A history of St Mark’s College, 1925–2025

Carolyn Collins Paul Sendziuk

An illustrated history of the first 100 years of St Mark’s College.

9781761170256

Hooked: Inside the murky world of Australia's gambling industry

Quentin Beresford

With a cast of questionable characters, iconic corporate brands, eye-watering greed, political subterfuge and the many state and federal politicians who have sold out to the gambling industry, Hooked exposes the underbelly of gambling in Australia.

9781742238043

Newcastle: The Lives and Times of a City

Newcastle finds itself on shifting ground. But it's not an earthquake, or subsidence due to an old mine. It's perception that's shifting.

9781761170102

Unfinished Revolution: The feminist fightback

Virginia Haussegger

Unfinished Revolution is a clarion call to reignite revolutionary feminist action.

9781761170386

(Be)wilder: Journeys in Nature

Can our interactions with wildlife help answer life’s big questions? Acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl explores how people around the world interact with the natural world.

9781761170546

2026 Australasian Sky Guide

The ultimate guide to the night sky.

9781761170362

Australian Heroes of World War II: Remarkable stories of battlefield courage

Leading military historian Mark Johnston tells stories of the courage of individual soldiers across every battle in which Australians fought in World War II.

9781761170461

A photographic celebration of some of nature’s most majestic creatures –humpback whales.

9781761170355

Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Nauru: The Problem of Resettlement 1962–1965

Edited by Stephen Henningham, Matthew Jordan, foreword by Penny Wong

9781761170195

Elizabeth Harrower: The woman in the watch tower

The revealing biography of a leading – and enigmatic – Australian novelist.

9781761170409

Living Greatly in the Law: Hal Wootten’s selected writing and speeches

Edited by David Dixon, Andrew Lynch

In this edited collection of essays, speeches and unpublished work, David Dixon and Andrew Lynch present Wootten’s contribution to shaping a more just society.

9781742237930

Walking Sydney: Fifteen walks with a city’s writers

Belinda Castles

Walking Sydney invites you to walk with a city’s writers as they share their places of home and imagination.

9781761170164

Plain Life: On thinking, feeling and deciding

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.

9781761170621

James Fairfax: Portrait of a collector in eleven objects

Alexander Edward Gilly

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.

9781761170300

Deep History: Country and Sovereignty

Edited by Ann McGrath, Jackie Huggins

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.

9781761170416

Charmian Clift, afterword by Nadia Wheatley

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.

9781761170287

Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family

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.

9781761170294

The Power of Choice

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.

9781761170058

Vaccine Nation: Science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress

Raina MacIntyre

A gripping journey through the past, present and future of vaccines.

9781742237503

Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970

Jacqueline Kent

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.

9781761170010

Human/Nature: On life in a wild world

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.

9781761170027

Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45

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.

9781761170188

How to be a (fantastic sensational) good enough kid

Alice Peel with illustrations by Beck Feiner

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.

9781742238029

Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844

The award-winning author of The Sydney Wars reveals the breadth of frontier resistance warfare